arXiv:2601.18151cs.SIcs.AI2026-01

提出SemExplainer,解释多社交网络中协同效应如何影响推荐结果。

Explaining Synergistic Effects in Social Recommendations

  • 通过图信息增益识别蕴含协同效应的子图
  • 在三个数据集上优于基线方法,显著提升解释效果
  • 适合关注推荐系统可解释性的研究者与开发者

在社交推荐中,多个社交网络间固有的非线性与透明度不足的协同效应,使用户难以理解多样信息如何被利用进行推荐,从而削弱了可解释性。现有解释器仅能识别对推荐有显著影响的拓扑信息,无法进一步解释这些信息间的协同效应。受现有研究启发——协同效应可通过增强输入与预测之间的互信息来产生信息增益,我们将其拓展至图数据。通过量化图信息增益,识别出体现协同效应的子图。基于此理论,我们提出SemExplainer,通过从多视角社交网络中提取解释性子图生成初步重要性解释;采用条件熵优化策略以最大化信息增益,进一步从解释性子图中识别出体现协同效应的子图;最后,在协同子图中搜索用户到推荐项的路径,生成推荐解释。在三个数据集上的大量实验表明,SemExplainer优于基线方法,提供了更优的协同效应解释。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In social recommenders, the inherent nonlinearity and opacity of synergistic effects across multiple social networks hinders users from understanding how diverse information is leveraged for recommendations, consequently diminishing explainability. However, existing explainers can only identify the topological information in social networks that significantly influences recommendations, failing to further explain the synergistic effects among this information. Inspired by existing findings that synergistic effects enhance mutual information between inputs and predictions to generate information gain, we extend this discovery to graph data. We quantify graph information gain to identify subgraphs embodying synergistic effects. Based on the theoretical insights, we propose SemExplainer, which explains synergistic effects by identifying subgraphs that embody them. SemExplainer first extracts explanatory subgraphs from multi-view social networks to generate preliminary importance explanations for recommendations. A conditional entropy optimization strategy to maximize information gain is developed, thereby further identifying subgraphs that embody synergistic effects from explanatory subgraphs. Finally, SemExplainer searches for paths from users to recommended items within the synergistic subgraphs to generate explanations for the recommendations. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate the superiority of SemExplainer over baseline methods, providing superior explanations of synergistic effects.

推荐系统协同效应可解释性图神经网络

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