Multi-Scale Automated Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation

Abstract

Automated self-supervised learning frameworks have shown significant results in the recommendation domain. However, existing methods such as AutoCF use graph convolutional networks and graph attention mechanisms that are limited to a single expression granularity and cannot fully capture the multi-granularity of user interests and product attributes. To address this problem, we propose MS-AutoCF, a multi-scale automated self-supervised learning recommender system that obtains user and product representations at different granularities through multi-layer graph convolution to match the global and local details of their interest preferences. Meanwhile, we design a query key value-based multi-head graph attention module that can adaptively aggregate and enhance the representations with different granularities. Experimental results show that the MS- AutoCF system achieves significant improvements over existing single-scale methods on several public datasets.