We point out that $\mathbf{W}_1$ is unnecessary, but interaction part $\mathbf{W}_2(\mathbf{e}_i^{(l)} \odot \mathbf{e}_u^{(l)})$ is valuable for recommendation task, but it's hard to train on sparsity dataset.
Thanks to the original implementations KAN and FourierKAN.
We use single-layer FourierKAN to replace MLP in feature transformation component and achieve better results than LightGCN and NGCF on MOOC and Amazon Games datasets. Formally:
@article{xu2024fourierkangcf,
title={FourierKAN-GCF: Fourier Kolmogorov-Arnold Network -- An Effective and Efficient Feature Transformation for Graph Collaborative Filtering},
author={Xu, Jinfeng and Chen, Zheyu and Li, Jinze and Yang, Shuo and Wang, Hewei and Hu, Xiping and Ngai, Edith C-H},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01034},
year={2024}
}