Disentangled Dynamic Graph Attention Network for Out-of-Distribution Sequential Recommendation

Z Zhang, X Wang, H Chen, H Li, W Zhu - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2024dl.acm.org
Sequential recommendation, leveraging user-item interaction histories to provide
personalized and timely suggestions, has drawn significant research interest recently. With
the power of exploiting spatio-temporal dynamics, Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
(DyGNNs) show great potential in sequential recommendation by modeling the dynamic
relationship between users and items. However, spatio-temporal distribution shifts naturally
exist in out-of-distribution sequential recommendation, where both user-item relationships …
Sequential recommendation, leveraging user-item interaction histories to provide personalized and timely suggestions, has drawn significant research interest recently. With the power of exploiting spatio-temporal dynamics, Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (DyGNNs) show great potential in sequential recommendation by modeling the dynamic relationship between users and items. However, spatio-temporal distribution shifts naturally exist in out-of-distribution sequential recommendation, where both user-item relationships and temporal sequences demonstrate pattern shifts. The out-of-distribution scenarios may lead to the failure of existing DyGNNs in handling spatio-temporal distribution shifts in sequential recommendation, given that the patterns they exploit tend to be variant w.r.t labels under distribution shifts. In this article, we propose Disentangled Intervention-based Dynamic graph Attention networks with Invariance Promotion (I-DIDA) to handle spatio-temporal distribution shifts in sequential recommendation by discovering and utilizing invariant patterns, i.e., structures and features whose predictive abilities are stable across distribution shifts. Specifically, we first propose a disentangled spatio-temporal attention network to capture the variant and invariant patterns. By utilizing the disentangled patterns, we design a spatio-temporal intervention mechanism to create multiple interventional distributions and an environment inference module to infer the latent spatio-temporal environments, and minimize the invariance loss to leverage the invariant patterns with stable predictive abilities under distribution shifts. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art sequential recommendation baselines under distribution shifts.
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