Disentangled Hypergraph Collaborative Filtering for Social Recommendation

In the current era of information overload, service recommendations have emerged as a valuable tool for enhancing the user experience. Among them, social recommendation models have shown promising results by incorporating social relationships to improve representation learning. However, most of these models lack fine-grained modeling of social user behavior, leading to a unified representation of users and a loss of expressiveness in user representations. To address this issue, we propose DisenHGCF, a new social recommendation approach based on disentangled hypergraph collaborative filtering, to disentangle the representations of users and items at the granularity of social users’ intents. This approach aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of the user, leading to more accurate and personalized recommendations. To be specific, DisenHGCF leverages hypergraphs to represent the complex relationships among users, friends, and items. By using the hypergraph disentangling module based on attention, it is able to disentangle the user’s intents and generate users representations in cooperating their intents for recommendation tasks. Additionally, a contrastive learning task based on intent-weight perturbation is designed to enhance representational learning. The experimental results obtained from the BeiBei and Beidian datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed approach in comparison to previous baseline methods, as evidenced by higher Recall and NDCG scores.