Cross-Domain Recommendation Via User-Clustering and Multidimensional Information Fusion

Recently, recommendation systems have been widely usedin online business scenarios, which can improve the online experience by learning the user or item characteristics to predict the user’s future behavior and to realize precision marketing. However, data sparsity and cold-start problems limit the performance of recommendation systems in some emerging fields. Thus, cross-domain recommendation has been proposed to handle the abovementioned problems. Nonetheless, many cross-domain recommendations only consider modeling a single user’s representation and ignore user-group information (this group has similar behavior and interests). Additionally, most studies are based on matrix factorization for generating embeddings, which results in a weak generalization ability of user latent features. In this paper, we propose a novel cross-domain recommendation model via
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ser-
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lustering and
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ultidimensional information
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usion (UCMF) that attempts to enhance user representation learning in a data sparsity scenario for accurate recommendation. In addition, we consider a user’s individual information and cross-domain feature information. A novel multidimensional information fusion is proposed to guarantee the robustness of the user features. In particular, we apply a graph neural network to learn the user-group features, which can effectively save the correlation among users’ information and guarantee feature performance. In other words, the Wasserstein autoencoder is utilized to learn the cross-domain user features, which can guarantee the consistency of user features from different domains. Experiments conducted on real-world datasets empirically demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in cross-domain recommendation.