LAGCL4Rec: When LLMs Activate Interactions Potential in Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Leqi Zheng, Chaokun Wang, Canzhi Chen, Jiajun Zhang, Cheng Wu, Zixin Song, Shannan Yan, Ziyang Liu, Hongwei Li
| Challenge: | Traditional contrastive learning methods treat negative feedback as equally hard or easy, ignoring informative semantic difficulty during training. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework leveraging Large Language Models to Activate interactions in Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art benchmarks on multiple benchmarks. |
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