GNN-based Social Recommender Systems

A curated list of papers on GNN-based social recommender systems.

Social recommender systems use user-user social links in addition to user-item interaction edges to make effective recommendation. This is illustrated in the diagram shown below, as it forms a user-item bipartite graph along with a relational graph induced by the social network.

Over the past few years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the standard way to encode graphs.

This repo, which accompanies our survey on the topic, inludes over 80 papers that use Graph Neural Network for the task of social recommendation.

You may refer to the survey for novel taxonomies to categorize these papers based on inputs, input representations, architectures (both encoders and decoders), and loss functions.

Citation

@article{10.1145/3661821,
  author = {Sharma, Kartik and Lee, Yeon-Chang and Nambi, Sivagami and Salian, Aditya and Shah, Shlok and Kim, Sang-Wook and Kumar, Srijan},
  title = {A Survey of Graph Neural Networks for Social Recommender Systems},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  issn = {0360-0300},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3661821},
  note = {Just Accepted},
  journal = {ACM Comput. Surv.},
  month = {apr},
}

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2022

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Year Model Venue Paper
2022 MOHCN IEEE Access https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9858144
2022 MrAPR ICPCSEE https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-5194-7_10
2022 DISGCN IEEE TKDE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9827970
2022 GNNRec Journal of Intelligent Information Systems https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10844-022-00733-5.pdf
2022 DCAN ICDE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9835273
2022 SGHAN IEEE Transactions on Services Computing https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9852695
2022 TAG IEEE TKDE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9844848
2022 SSRGNN ICCS https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-08757-8_46
2022 Social-RippleNet Applied Intelligence https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10489-022-03620-2.pdf
2022 ME-LGN DASFAA https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-00126-0_9
2022 GNN-DSR DASFAA https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.10751.pdf
2022 GDSRec IEEE TKDE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9721542
2022 SIGA Applied Intelligence https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10489-022-03748-1.pdf
2022 DcRec CIKM https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.08723.pdf
2022 FBNE IEEE TKDE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9050415
2022 HSGNN IEEE TNSM https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9810972
2022 CGL Frontiers in Physics https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2022.830805/full
2022 EAGCN IEEE Internet of Things Journal https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9714267
2022 SRAN ICCAI https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3532213.3532259
2022 SocialLGN Information Sciences https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020025522000019
2022 MPSR Neurocomputing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231221015368
2022 GLOW Pattern Recognition https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031320322000826
2022 GMAN Information Processing and Management https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457321002752
2022 GraphRec++ IEEE TKDE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9139346
2022 SCGRec WWW https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3485447.3512273
2022 DH-HGCN ACM SIGIR https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3477495.3531828
2022 Motif-Res Neurocomputing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231222011948
2022 GSFR Expert Systems with Applications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417422009204
2022 IDiffNet Journal of Intelligent Information Systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10844-021-00684-3
2022 APTE Pattern Recognition Letters https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167865522002495#!
2022 FeSoG ACM TIST https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.10778.pdf
2022 IGRec Knowledge-Based Systems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950705122004415
2022 ESRF IEEE TKDE https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.02340.pdf
2022 SDCRec ACM SIGIR https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3477495.3531780
2022 SoHRML Knowledge and Information Systems https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10115-022-01680-x.pdf
2022 DSR IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9528836
2022 DESIGN WWW https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3485447.3512003
2022 SENGR Information Sciences https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025521013414
2022 HOSR IEEE TKDE https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.10149.pdf
2022 SSDRec Applied Soft Computing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568494622000291

2021

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Year Model Venue Paper
2021 SEPT KDD https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3447548.3467340
2021 MGSR ICAA https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9653534
2021 FuseRec DMKD https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10618-021-00738-8
2021 EGFRec Neurocomputing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231220312832?casa_token=__fLWNe4HBIAAAAA:ZRdOoh7yae2vF7YnfzhAWBtIzsks28OQfJejyZ2O_iKqEuBLWU7Wp1IidkgOGOvtRV9IKp42yw
2021 SeRec WSDM https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3437963.3441792?casa_token=gsXXOYOY30AAAAAA:GPvVc0dqRPktdAc1zChZAsWdMjlZ4REYD5g9DZpTBumS76Pn1D1mDVKvCf9GTbbQ5ln1a1F7bpbaDA
2021 GTN KSE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9648823
2021 PDARec BigDIA https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9619671
2021 SHGCN arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03344
2021 SOAP-VAE International Journal of Intelligent Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/int.22444
2021 MHCN WWW https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442381.3449844
2021 HeteroGraphRec Knowledge-Based Systems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950705121000800?casa_token=4f5EATDG07QAAAAA:f9YbYrNKQWdfv1BI5VqNvCInk5dK3O77hpZk3jX5jdssTX7c-nTWHJ_34sfx6xotyOg4xH0xJA
2021 BFHAN ACM TOIS https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3469799
2021 SAGLG IEEE TNSE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9531473
2021 Diffnet-LG ACM SIGIR https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3404835.3463043?casa_token=lkyy_lbDFngAAAAA:sdXtAm4k3RPXDfbKmV-OLCSGuaQw2wfT99nu8CRiwCn-Ckx7vgbq9meD1ZPSJX62ai3A3WkdGBIx5g
2021 MutualRec Journal of Network and Computer Applications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1084804520304070?casa_token=TFLD46EFil8AAAAA:tEoU1o6RgmfKDVkeyobks12REjgdmW3oSsZA_NyNIX-Ak5PFImY3lw9mC55g_bke_TifZ8Hetg
2021 SAN International Journal of Intelligent Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/int.22694?casa_token=XAW0_pYbUKcAAAAA%3AG32b2GKYO3u-_387mUY-LwJUW-d3xbmSieOvvHyEr_4uYnCnrxhaqWVYtkUdcUkL7Vwk3wchmdcUWn_D
2021 GNNTSR IEEE IJCNN https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9533367
2021 DICER WWW https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442381.3449940?casa_token=C0niSuC2iNkAAAAA:LnF1JxuktyY_4KOoCeOoYohBa9rMaje2wF_qNoXaZO8S2vdJ8fedRt7bbkjPgzmBUtQTAj1WM9wR5w
2021 PA-GAN Journal of Physics: Conference Series https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1848/1/012141/pdf
2021 GHSCF Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/2021/9107718/
2021 ASR Neurocomputing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231221004628?casa_token=hYAWJz7TuiUAAAAA:Rp_B7GNTUr1DpTbEMmkJD6KeDIEamc8DegIpeeumpqhfHCp9O_oeXh008uWP8rG8nL2SKiWP7g
2021 ATGCN IEEE Access https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9499073
2021 SGA PDCAT https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-96772-7_34
2021 SPEX ACM Transactions on Information Systems https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3473338
2021 HyperSoRec ACM TOIS http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~qiliuql/files/Publications/Hao-Wang-TOIS21.pdf

2020

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Year Model Venue Paper
2020 DREAM CIKM https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.04579.pdf
2020 MEGCN CIKM https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3340531.3412016?casa_token=Fm0DDhNV--UAAAAA:zkGFGffGmb3rPyytwynfSorvKbCtJnIP2fdAIAIjMpGCIBbuhboUhiQ0BH3hJN7pFhOn4VIZ5Pj_dw
2020 DGARec-R IEEE ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9443760
2020 TGRec IEEE BigData https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9378444
2020 GNN-SOR IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9063418
2020 Diffnet++ IEEE TKDE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9311623
2020 HIDM IEEE ICTAI https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9288294
2020 KConvGraphRec CSoNet https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-66046-8_6
2020 MGNN IEEE Intelligent Systems https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9078079
2020 SR-HGNN IEEE ICDM https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9338365

2019

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Year Model Venue Paper
2019 Diffnet ACM SIGIR https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3331184.3331214?casa_token=nivDVWLpW1cAAAAA:xdz-72bUnvPFsJbUr69x7eVoDWw_tyZh4zIvnkjT7l4HQB2bfyN-MC5uz8rsssGQSbJYwjqZx4RzlQ
2019 GraphRec WWW https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3308558.3313488?casa_token=pwOzVIgv8YYAAAAA:d5YTkdzzab0g0dE0wGdlp7oJ5gKgiSPHrC2IFVjY2eGnzyl5Z-m2IhZJqgNKBPVqTSdIBqAI1uN1Ow
2019 DANSER WWW https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3308558.3313442?casa_token=zllzPk1e4xsAAAAA:GRBUElEZiwBJ2WXp3ZbTe_DJalynQYWW-tQsr3afmAgVacaRD7Y4DRvdi7pk_ou1JiTzXK_JaOatuw
2019 GAT-NSR IEEE ICTAI https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8995280
2019 SoRecGAT ECML-PKDD https://www.ecmlpkdd2019.org/downloads/paper/475.pdf
2019 DGRec WSDM https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09362.pdf