Yu-Ting Cheng


2025

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Learning User Common Interests for Unseen Group Recommendation
Yu-Ting Cheng | Pin-Hsin Hsiao | Chiou-Shann Fuh | Pu-Jen Cheng
Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025)

Previous studies on recommender systems have primarily focused on learning implicit preferences from individual user behaviors or enhancing recommendation performance by identifying similar users. However, in real-life scenarios, group decision-making is often required, such as when a group of friends decides which movie to watch together. Thus, discovering common interests has become a key research issue in group recommendation. The most straightforward approach to group recommendation is to model the past joint behaviors of a user group. Nevertheless, this method fails to handle newly formed groups with no historical interactions. To address this limitation, we apply Graph Convolutional Networks to capture high-order structural features within the user–item interaction graph, thereby uncovering the potential common interests of unseen groups. Experimental evaluations on three real-world datasets demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.