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Poster
Curriculum Co-disentangled Representation Learning across Multiple Environments for Social Recommendation
Xin Wang · Zirui Pan · Yuwei Zhou · Hong Chen · Chendi Ge · Wenwu Zhu

Thu Jul 27 04:30 PM -- 06:00 PM (PDT) @ Exhibit Hall 1 #808
in Poster Session 6 »

There exist complex patterns behind the decision-making processes of different individuals across different environments. For instance, in a social recommender system, various user behaviors are driven by highly entangled latent factors from two environments, i.e., consuming environment where users consume items and social environment where users connect with each other. Uncovering the disentanglement of these latent factors for users can benefit in enhanced explainability and controllability for recommendation. However, in literature there has been no work on social recommendation capable of disentangling user representations across consuming and social environments. To solve this problem, we study co-disentangled representation learning across different environments via proposing the curriculum co-disentangled representation learning (CurCoDis) model to disentangle the hidden factors for users across both consuming and social environments. To co-disentangle joint representations for user-item consumption and user-user social graph simultaneously, we partition the social graph into equal-size sub-graphs with minimum number of edges being cut, and design a curriculum weighing strategy for subgraph training through measuring the complexity of subgraphs via Descartes' rule of signs. We further develop the prototype-routing optimization mechanism, which achieves co-disentanglement of user representations across consuming and social environments. Extensive experiments for social recommendation demonstrate that our proposed CurCoDis model can significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods on several real-world datasets.

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Author Information

Xin Wang (Tsinghua University)
Zirui Pan (Tsinghua University)
Yuwei Zhou (Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University)
Hong Chen (Tsinghua University)
Chendi Ge (Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University)
Wenwu Zhu (Tsinghua University)

Wenwu Zhu is currently a Professor of Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University and Vice Dean of National Research Center on Information Science and Technology. Prior to his current post, he was a Senior Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia. He was the Chief Scientist and Director at Intel Research China from 2004 to 2008. He worked at Bell Labs New Jersey as a Member of Technical Staff during 1996-1999. He has been serving as the chair of the steering committee for IEEE T-MM since January 1, 2020. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM) from 2017 to 2019. And Vice EiC for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) from 2020-2021 He served as co-Chair for ACM MM 2018 and co-Chair for ACM CIKM 2019. His current research interests are in the areas of multimodal big data and intelligence, and multimedia networking. He received 10 Best Paper Awards. He is a member of Academia Europaea, an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and SPIE Fellow.

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