CPGRec+: A Balance-oriented Framework for Personalized Video Game Recommendations

TL;DR

CPGRec+ is a novel framework that balances accuracy and diversity in personalized video game recommendations by incorporating preference-aware graph reweighting and LLM-based representation generation.

Contribution

It introduces two modules, PER and PRG, to improve the trade-off between accuracy and diversity in GNN-based game recommendation systems, leveraging large language models.

Findings

CPGRec+ outperforms state-of-the-art models in accuracy and diversity on Steam datasets.

Preference-informed edge reweighting mitigates over-smoothing in graph convolutions.

LLM-based description generation enhances personalization of recommendations.

Abstract

The rapid expansion of gaming industry requires advanced recommender systems tailored to its dynamic landscape. Existing Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based methods primarily prioritize accuracy over diversity, overlooking their inherent trade-off. To address this, we previously proposed CPGRec, a balance-oriented gaming recommender system. However, CPGRec fails to account for critical disparities in player-game interactions, which carry varying significance in reflecting players' personal preferences and may exacerbate over-smoothness issues inherent in GNN-based models. Moreover, existing approaches underutilize the reasoning capabilities and extensive knowledge of large language models (LLMs) in addressing these limitations. To bridge this gap, we propose two new modules. First, Preference-informed Edge Reweighting (PER) module assigns signed edge weights to qualitatively distinguish significant player interests and disinterests while then quantitatively measuring preference strength to mitigate over-smoothing in graph convolutions. Second, Preference-informed Representation Generation (PRG) module leverages LLMs to generate contextualized descriptions of games and players by reasoning personal preferences from comparing global and personal interests, thereby refining representations of players and games. Experiments on \textcolor{black}{two Steam datasets} demonstrate CPGRec+'s superior accuracy and diversity over state-of-the-art models. The code is accessible at https://github.com/HsipingLi/CPGRec-Plus.