A Recommendation Approach Based on Heterogeneous Network and Dynamic Knowledge Graph

Abstract

Besides data sparsity and cold start, recommender systems often face the problems of selection bias and exposure bias. These problems influence the accuracy of recommendations and easily lead to overrecommendations. This paper proposes a recommendation approach based on heterogeneous network and dynamic knowledge graph (HN-DKG). The main steps include (1) determining the implicit preferences of users according to user’s cross-domain and cross-platform behaviors to form multimodal nodes and then building a heterogeneous knowledge graph; (2) Applying an improved multihead attention mechanism of the graph attention network (GAT) to realize the relationship enhancement of multimodal nodes and constructing a dynamic knowledge graph; and (3) Leveraging RippleNet to discover user’s layered potential interests and rating candidate items. In which, some mechanisms, such as user seed clusters, propagation blocking, and random seed mechanisms, are designed to obtain more accurate and diverse recommendations. In this paper, the public datasets are used to evaluate the performance of algorithms, and the experimental results show that the proposed method has good performance in the effectiveness and diversity of recommendations. On the MovieLens-1M dataset, the proposed model is 18%, 9%, and 2% higher than KGAT on F1, NDCG@10, and AUC and 20%, 2%, and 0.9% higher than RippleNet, respectively. On the Amazon Book dataset, the proposed model is 12%, 3%, and 2.5% higher than NFM on F1, NDCG@10, and AUC and 0.8%, 2.3%, and 0.35% higher than RippleNet, respectively.