Browsing by Subject "Graph Neural Networks"

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    Heterogeneous Graph Based Neural Network for Social Recommendations with Balanced Random Walk Initialization
    (2020-12) Salamat, Amirreza; King, Brian; Jafari, Ali; Luo, Xiao
    Research on social networks and understanding the interactions of the users can be modeled as a task of graph mining, such as predicting nodes and edges in networks. Dealing with such unstructured data in large social networks has been a challenge for researchers in several years. Neural Networks have recently proven very successful in performing predictions on number of speech, image, and text data and have become the de facto method when dealing with such data in a large volume. Graph NeuralNetworks, however, have only recently become mature enough to be used in real large-scale graph prediction tasks, and require proper structure and data modeling to be viable and successful. In this research, we provide a new modeling of the social network which captures the attributes of the nodes from various dimensions. We also introduce the Neural Network architecture that is required for optimally utilizing the new data structure. Finally, in order to provide a hot-start for our model, we initialize the weights of the neural network using a pre-trained graph embedding method. We have also developed a new graph embedding algorithm. We will first explain how previous graph embedding methods are not optimal for all types of graphs, and then provide a solution on how to combat those limitations and come up with a new graph embedding method.
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    Recommendation Systems in Social Networks
    (2023-05) Mohammad Jafari, Behafarid; King, Brian; Luo, Xiao; Jafari, Ali; Zhang, Qingxue
    The dramatic improvement in information and communication technology (ICT) has made an evolution in learning management systems (LMS). The rapid growth in LMSs has caused users to demand more advanced, automated, and intelligent services. CourseNet working is a next-generation LMS adopting machine learning to add personalization, gamifi cation, and more dynamics to the system. This work tries to come up with two recommender systems that can help improve CourseNetworking services. The first one is a social recommender system helping CourseNetworking to track user interests and give more relevant recommendations. Recently, graph neural network (GNN) techniques have been employed in social recommender systems due to their high success in graph representation learning, including social network graphs. Despite the rapid advances in recommender systems performance, dealing with the dynamic property of the social network data is one of the key challenges that is remained to be addressed. In this research, a novel method is presented that provides social recommendations by incorporating the dynamic property of social network data in a heterogeneous graph by supplementing the graph with time span nodes that are used to define users long-term and short-term preferences over time. The second service that is proposed to add to Rumi services is a hashtag recommendation system that can help users label their posts quickly resulting in improved searchability of content. In recent years, several hashtag recommendation methods are proposed and de veloped to speed up processing of the texts and quickly find out the critical phrases. The methods use different approaches and techniques to obtain critical information from a large amount of data. This work investigates the efficiency of unsupervised keyword extraction methods for hashtag recommendation and recommends the one with the best performance to use in a hashtag recommender system.