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Main Authors: Zheng, Hongye, Xing, Yue, Zhu, Lipeng, Han, Xu, Du, Junliang, Cui, Wanyu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05989
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author Zheng, Hongye
Xing, Yue
Zhu, Lipeng
Han, Xu
Du, Junliang
Cui, Wanyu
author_facet Zheng, Hongye
Xing, Yue
Zhu, Lipeng
Han, Xu
Du, Junliang
Cui, Wanyu
contents This study focuses on the problem of path modeling in heterogeneous information networks and proposes a multi-hop path-aware recommendation framework. The method centers on multi-hop paths composed of various types of entities and relations. It models user preferences through three stages: path selection, semantic representation, and attention-based fusion. In the path selection stage, a path filtering mechanism is introduced to remove redundant and noisy information. In the representation learning stage, a sequential modeling structure is used to jointly encode entities and relations, preserving the semantic dependencies within paths. In the fusion stage, an attention mechanism assigns different weights to each path to generate a global user interest representation. Experiments conducted on real-world datasets such as Amazon-Book show that the proposed method significantly outperforms existing recommendation models across multiple evaluation metrics, including HR@10, Recall@10, and Precision@10. The results confirm the effectiveness of multi-hop paths in capturing high-order interaction semantics and demonstrate the expressive modeling capabilities of the framework in heterogeneous recommendation scenarios. This method provides both theoretical and practical value by integrating structural information modeling in heterogeneous networks with recommendation algorithm design. It offers a more expressive and flexible paradigm for learning user preferences in complex data environments.
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spellingShingle Modeling Multi-Hop Semantic Paths for Recommendation in Heterogeneous Information Networks
Zheng, Hongye
Xing, Yue
Zhu, Lipeng
Han, Xu
Du, Junliang
Cui, Wanyu
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
This study focuses on the problem of path modeling in heterogeneous information networks and proposes a multi-hop path-aware recommendation framework. The method centers on multi-hop paths composed of various types of entities and relations. It models user preferences through three stages: path selection, semantic representation, and attention-based fusion. In the path selection stage, a path filtering mechanism is introduced to remove redundant and noisy information. In the representation learning stage, a sequential modeling structure is used to jointly encode entities and relations, preserving the semantic dependencies within paths. In the fusion stage, an attention mechanism assigns different weights to each path to generate a global user interest representation. Experiments conducted on real-world datasets such as Amazon-Book show that the proposed method significantly outperforms existing recommendation models across multiple evaluation metrics, including HR@10, Recall@10, and Precision@10. The results confirm the effectiveness of multi-hop paths in capturing high-order interaction semantics and demonstrate the expressive modeling capabilities of the framework in heterogeneous recommendation scenarios. This method provides both theoretical and practical value by integrating structural information modeling in heterogeneous networks with recommendation algorithm design. It offers a more expressive and flexible paradigm for learning user preferences in complex data environments.
title Modeling Multi-Hop Semantic Paths for Recommendation in Heterogeneous Information Networks
topic Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05989