Self-Supervised Dynamic Hypergraph Recommendation based on Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graph

TL;DR

This paper introduces SDK, a self-supervised hypergraph recommendation framework that models hyper-relational facts in knowledge graphs to improve recommendation accuracy and address issues like over-smoothing and data sparsity.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel self-supervised hypergraph learning approach that models hyper-relational facts and dynamically constructs hypergraphs for enhanced recommendation performance.

Findings

SDK outperforms state-of-the-art models in experiments.

The framework effectively alleviates over-smoothing.

It mitigates supervision signal sparsity in knowledge graphs.

Abstract

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are commonly used as side information to enhance collaborative signals and improve recommendation quality. In the context of knowledge-aware recommendation (KGR), graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as promising solutions for modeling factual and semantic information in KGs. However, the long-tail distribution of entities leads to sparsity in supervision signals, which weakens the quality of item representation when utilizing KG enhancement. Additionally, the binary relation representation of KGs simplifies hyper-relational facts, making it challenging to model complex real-world information. Furthermore, the over-smoothing phenomenon results in indistinguishable representations and information loss. To address these challenges, we propose the SDK (Self-Supervised Dynamic Hypergraph Recommendation based on Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graph) framework. This framework establishes a cross-view hypergraph self-supervised learning mechanism for KG enhancement. Specifically, we model hyper-relational facts in KGs to capture interdependencies between entities under complete semantic conditions. With the refined representation, a hypergraph is dynamically constructed to preserve features in the deep vector space, thereby alleviating the over-smoothing problem. Furthermore, we mine external supervision signals from both the global perspective of the hypergraph and the local perspective of collaborative filtering (CF) to guide the model prediction process. Extensive experiments conducted on different datasets demonstrate the superiority of the SDK framework over state-of-the-art models. The results showcase its ability to alleviate the effects of over-smoothing and supervision signal sparsity.