Temporal-Guided Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Graph Convolutional Network for Personalized Movie Recommendation Systems

Abstract

Traditional movie recommendation systems are increasingly falling short in the contemporary landscape of abundant information and evolving user behaviors. This study introduced the temporal knowledge graph recommender system (TKGRS), a ground-breaking algorithm that addresses the limitations of existing models. TKGRS uniquely integrates graph convolutional networks (GCNs), matrix factorization, and temporal decay factors to offer a robust and dynamic recommendation mechanism. The algorithm’s architecture comprises an initial embedding layer for identifying the user and item, followed by a GCN layer for a nuanced understanding of the relationships and fully connected layers for prediction. A temporal decay factor is also used to give weightage to recent user–item interactions. Empirical validation using the MovieLens 100K, 1M, and Douban datasets showed that TKGRS outperformed the state-of-the-art models according to the evaluation metrics, i.e., RMSE and MAE. This innovative approach sets a new standard in movie recommendation systems and opens avenues for future research in advanced graph algorithms and machine learning techniques.