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Contrastive sequential interaction network learning on co-evolving Riemannian spaces

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The sequential interaction network usually find itself in a variety of applications, e.g., recommender system. Herein, inferring future interaction is of fundamental importance, and previous efforts are mainly focused on the dynamics in the classic zero-curvature Euclidean space. Despite the promising results achieved by previous methods, a range of significant issues still largely remains open: On the bipartite nature, is it appropriate to place user and item nodes in one identical space regardless of their inherent difference? On the network dynamics, instead of a fixed curvature space, will the representation spaces evolve when new interactions arrive continuously? On the learning paradigm, can we get rid of the label information costly to acquire? To address the aforementioned issues, we propose a novel Contrastive model for Sequential Interaction Network learning on Co-Evolving RiEmannian spaces, CSincere. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to introduce a couple of co-evolving representation spaces, rather than a single or static space, and propose a co-contrastive learning for the sequential interaction network. In CSincere, we formulate a Cross-Space Aggregation for message-passing across representation spaces of different Riemannian geometries, and design a Neural Curvature Estimator based on Ricci curvatures for modeling the space evolvement over time. Thereafter, we present a Reweighed Co-Contrast between the temporal views of the sequential network, so that the couple of Riemannian spaces interact with each other for the interaction prediction without labels. Empirical results on 5 public datasets show the superiority of CSincere over the state-of-the-art methods.

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  1. In Riemannian geometry, the negative curvature space is termed as the hyperbolic space, and positive curvature space is termed as the spherical space.

  2. We use manifold and space interchangeable throughout this paper.

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The authors of this paper were supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62202164, S &T Program of Hebei through Grant 20310101D, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 2022MS018. Prof. Philip S. Yu is supported in part by NSF under Grant III-2106758.

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    Li Sun

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    Junda Ye & Feiyang Wang

  3. University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Jiawei Zhang

  4. State Grid Handan Electric Power Supply Company, Handan, 056000, Hebei, China

    Yong Yang

  5. Shijiazhuang Institute of Railway Technology, Shijiazhuang, 050041, Hebei, China

    Mingsheng Liu

  6. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA

    Philip S. Yu

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Sun, L., Ye, J., Zhang, J. et al. Contrastive sequential interaction network learning on co-evolving Riemannian spaces. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 15, 1397–1413 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-023-01974-8

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