The multi-criteria (MC) recommender system, which leverages MC rating information in a wide range of e-commerce areas, is ubiquitous nowadays. Surprisingly, although graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to develop various recommender systems due to GNN's high expressive capability in learning graph representations, it has been still unexplored how to design MC recommender systems with GNNs. In light of this, we make the first attempt towards designing a GNN-aided MC recommender system. Specifically, rather than straightforwardly adopting existing GNN-based recommendation methods, we devise a novel criteria preference-aware light graph convolution CPA-LGC method, which is capable of precisely capturing the criteria preference of users as well as the collaborative signal in complex high-order connectivities. To this end, we first construct an MC expansion graph that transforms user--item MC ratings into an expanded bipartite graph to potentially learn from the collaborative signal in MC ratings. Next, to strengthen the capability of criteria preference awareness, CPA-LGC incorporates newly characterized embeddings, including user-specific criteria-preference embeddings and item-specific criterion embeddings, into our graph convolution model. Through comprehensive evaluations using four real-world datasets, we demonstrate (a) the superiority over benchmark MC recommendation methods and benchmark recommendation methods using GNNs with tremendous gains, (b) the effectiveness of core components in CPA-LGC, and (c) the computational efficiency.

翻译：多准则（MC）推荐系统利用电子商务领域的多准则评分信息，如今已无处不在。令人意外的是，尽管图神经网络（GNN）因其在图表示学习中的强大表达能力被广泛应用于各类推荐系统，但如何设计基于GNN的多准则推荐系统仍未被探索。鉴于此，我们首次尝试设计GNN辅助的多准则推荐系统。具体而言，我们并非直接采用现有基于GNN的推荐方法，而是提出一种新颖的准则偏好感知轻量图卷积方法CPA-LGC，该方法能够精确捕捉用户准则偏好以及复杂高阶连接中的协同信号。为此，我们首先构建一个多准则扩展图，将用户-项目多准则评分转化为扩展二分图，以潜在学习多准则评分中的协同信号。其次，为增强准则偏好感知能力，CPA-LGC将新表征的嵌入（包括用户特定准则偏好嵌入和项目特定准则嵌入）纳入图卷积模型。通过在四个真实数据集上的综合评估，我们证明了：（a）该方法相比基准多准则推荐方法和使用GNN的基准推荐方法具有显著优势；（b）CPA-LGC核心组件的有效性；（c）其计算效率。