Multi-view Hypergraph-based Self-supervised Learning Model for Web API Recommendation

With the rapid development of service computing technology, how to recommend the desirable Web APIs to developers from the large number of APIs is a challenge. The traditional methods based on collaborative filtering are limited by data sparsity. With the support of multi-dimensional relational feature modeling, graph neural network-based methods are proposed to mitigate data sparsity, but their convolution nature may amplify the noise effect. Therefore, how to simultaneously reduce the impact of sparsity and noisy data has been an open question in the field of API recommendation. To address the problem, this paper proposes a self-supervised learning method based on multi-view hypergraph for Web API recommendation. First, the Mashup-API interaction graph is transformed into a hypergraph, and the hyperedges are used as intermediate hubs to transfer messages between nodes, maintaining the global collaboration effect between Mashup and API nodes. Then, a multi-view strategy is adopted to generate embeddings of Mashups and APIs through information fusion, by which recommendation probability is derived by dot product between the embeddings of Mashups and Web APIs. To train the model parameters effectively, a self-supervised learning method is used to reduce the effect of noisy data to improve the embeddings. Extensive experiments are conducted on a real-world dataset, and the experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms the baselines.