ProtoAU

Pytorch implementation of ProtoAU for recomandation. We present the Prototypical contrastive learning through Alignment and Uniformity for recommendation, which is called ProtoAU. A contrastive learning method for recommendation that excels in capturing intricate relationships between user and item interactions, which enhance the basic GNN-based recommendation model's generalization ability and robustness.

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Prepare

There are two environment you can choose: nvidia-docker environment or normal environment.

• For nvidia-docker users, you need to install nvidia-docker2 and restart docker service.

# docker env
docker build -t protoau .
docker run -itd --gpus all --name protoau
docker exec -it protoau /bin/bash # enter the container

• For normal users, you need to install pytorch and other packages. here we use follow environment:
  • Python 3.6
  • Pytorch 1.9 (GPU version)
  • CUDA 11.1
  • cudnn 8

then run follow command to install other packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Quickstart

• Arguments:

  • Config the model arguments in conf/ProtoAU.yaml

• Train:

# train
nohup python index.py --gpu_id=0 --model=ProtoAU --run_name=ProtoAU --dataset=yelp2018 > ./0.log 2>&1 &

# Parallel train(optional)
wandb sweep --project sweep_parallel ./sweep/ProtoAU.yaml # step 1
wandb agent --count 5 oceanlvr/sweep_parallel/[xxx] # replace the [xxx] with your sweep id (step 1 generated)

3. For all metric results, you could see the output in the ./0.log file or the wandb dashboard.
4. For visualizing the results, run python3 visualize/feature.py.

Datasets

   

DataSet
	Users	Items	Ratings	Density
Douban	2,848	39,586	894,887	0.794%
LastFM	1,892	17,632	92,834	0.27%
Yelp	19,539	21,266	450,884	0.11%
Amazon-Book	52,463	91,599	2,984,108	0.11%

Reference

• https://github.com/coder-Yu/SELFRec/
• https://github.com/RUCAIBox/RecBole2.0

Cite

Please cite our paper (arXiv:2402.02079) if you use this code.