Multi-View Graph Convolutional Network for Multimedia Recommendation

Abstract

Multimedia recommendation has received much attention in recent years. It models user preferences based on both behavior information and item multimodal information. Though current GCN-based methods achieve notable success, they suffer from two limitations: (1) Modality noise contamination to the item representations. Existing methods often mix modality features and behavior features in a single view (e.g., user-item view) for propagation, the noise in the modality features may be amplified and coupled with behavior features. In the end, it leads to poor feature discriminability; (2) Incomplete user preference modeling caused by equal treatment of modality features. Users often exhibit distinct modality preferences when purchasing different items. Equally fusing each modality feature ignores the relative importance among different modalities, leading to the suboptimal user preference modeling.