Aspect-Aware Content-Based Recommendations for Mathematical Research Papers
Abstract
Content-based research paper recommendation (CbRPR) has seen advances in computer science and biomedicine, but remains unexplored for mathematics, where paper relatedness is more conceptual than explicit textual or citation-based similarity. Mathematics papers may be connected through shared proof techniques, logical implications, or natural generalizations, yet exhibit minimal textual or citation overlap, rendering existing CbRPR ineffective. To address this gap, we first conduct an expert-driven study characterizing mathematical recommendations, revealing that relevance is inherently \textit{aspect}-driven. Grounded in this insight, we introduce GoldRiM (small, expert-annotated) and SilverRiM (large, automatically derived), the first datasets for \textit{aspect}-aware CbRPR in mathematics. Recognizing that LLM embeddings of mathematical content alone yield suboptimal representation, we propose AchGNN, an \textit{aspect}-conditioned heterogeneous GNN that jointly models textual semantics, citation structure, and author lineage. Across GoldRiM and SilverRiM, AchGNN consistently outperforms prior \textit{aspect}-based CbRPR methods, achieving substantial gains across all evaluated \textit{aspects}. We conduct ablation studies to analyze the contributions of individual \textit{aspect} supervision, authorship lineage, and graph-structural signals to AchGNN's performance. To assess domain generality, we further evaluate AchGNN on the \textit{Papers with Code} dataset of machine learning publications, demonstrating that our \textit{aspect}-aware approach effectively transfers beyond mathematics. We deploy our system on the MaRDI platform to help mathematicians with recommendations and release datasets and code publicly for reproducibility.
Assigned reviewers
| # | Reviewer | Match | Why (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy) | |
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| 1 | Xinying Qian | 56 | 60 Bring Invariant to Variant: A Contrastive Prompt-based Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Contrast then Memorize: Semantic Neighbor Retrieval-Enhanced Inductive Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Few-shot temporal knowledge graph completion based on query-adaptive Mamba-enhanced temporal relation learning (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 2 | Tianzhe Zhao | 53 | 66 Untargeted Adversarial Attack on Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Rethinking Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding: Benchmarks and Analysis (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 SAGE: Scale-Aware Gradual Evolution for Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
Area chair
| Area chair | Match | |
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| Maolin Wang 0001 | 39 |
Area-chair candidates (6)
| Maolin Wang 0001 assigned | 39 | 15 papers | |
| Weiming Liu 0005 | 38 | 8 papers | |
| Yankai Chen 0001 | 38 | 6 papers | |
| Leyu Lin | 38 | 15 papers | |
| Qiaoyu Tan | 37 | 7 papers | |
| Xiaoxue Zang | 37 | 4 papers |
Candidates from the panel ranked by match score
| # | Reviewer | Match | Load | Why | |
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| 1 | Ben Liu 0002 | 63 | 3 | 60 Clarified Aggregation and Predictive Modeling (CAPM): High-Interpretability Framework for Inductive Link Prediction (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Neighboring relation enhanced inductive knowledge graph link prediction via meta-learning (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 2 | Xiaolong Jin 0001 | 62 | 3 | 60 Link Prediction on N-ary Relational Data Based on Relatedness Evaluation (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 A Survey of Link Prediction in N-ary Knowledge Graphs (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 3 | Jiapu Wang | 59 | 3 | 60 TDN: Triplet Distributor Network for Knowledge Graph Completion (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Multi-Level Interaction Based Knowledge Graph Completion (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 4 | Xinying Qian assigned | 56 | 3 | 60 Bring Invariant to Variant: A Contrastive Prompt-based Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Contrast then Memorize: Semantic Neighbor Retrieval-Enhanced Inductive Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 5 | Tianzhe Zhao assigned | 53 | 3 | 66 Untargeted Adversarial Attack on Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Rethinking Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding: Benchmarks and Analysis (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 6 | Xiangyu Ke | 49 | 3 | 60 Academic Expert Finding via $(k, \mathcal{P})$-Core based Embedding over Heterogeneous Graphs (2022) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Efficient and Effective Academic Expert Finding on Heterogeneous Graphs through (k, 𝒫)-Core based Embedding (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 7 | Qinggang Zhang | 49 | 3 | 60 Logical Reasoning with Relation Network for Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Contrastive Knowledge Graph Error Detection (2022) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 8 | Fu Zhang 0001 | 46 | 3 | 60 A self-supervised method for learning path-augmented knowledge graph embedding (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Representation Learning of Knowledge Graphs with Multi-scale Capsule Network (2019) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 9 | Chunyang Wang 0001 | 46 | 3 | 76 Enhancing User Interest Modeling with Knowledge-Enriched Itemsets for Sequential Recommendation (2021) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 72 Learning Aspect-Aware High-Order Representations from Ratings and Reviews for Recommendation (2023) Graph Learning for Text-Attributed and Heterogeneous Networks |
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| 10 | Yu Gu 0016 | 46 | 3 | 60 TRAVERS: A Diversity-Based Dynamic Approach to Iterative Relevance Search over Knowledge Graphs (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Relevance Search over Schema-Rich Knowledge Graphs (2019) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 11 | Ke Wang 0038 | 44 | 3 | 56 Learning Aspect-Aware High-Order Representations from Ratings and Reviews for Recommendation (2023) Graph Learning for Text-Attributed and Heterogeneous Networks 50 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 12 | Xuhui Sui | 44 | 3 | 60 Dark Side of Modalities: Reinforced Multimodal Distillation for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Multimodal Knowledge Graph Error Detection with Disentanglement VAE and Multi-Grained Triplet Confidence (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 13 | Yuzhong Qu | 44 | 3 | 60 Relevance Search over Schema-Rich Knowledge Graphs (2019) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Diversified and Verbalized Result Summarization for Semantic Association Search (2018) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 14 | Armin Toroghi | 44 | 3 | 74 LogicRec: Recommendation with Users' Logical Requirements (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 72 Bayesian Knowledge-driven Critiquing with Indirect Evidence (2023) Conversational Recommendation Systems |
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| 15 | Bo Wang 0069 | 43 | 3 | 60 Structure-Augmented Text Representation Learning for Efficient Knowledge Graph Completion (2021) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 60 Siamese Pre-Trained Transformer Encoder for Knowledge Base Completion (2021) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 16 | Chen Wang 0052 | 42 | 3 | 77 Knowledge Graph Context-Enhanced Diversified Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 48 Multi-task Item-attribute Graph Pre-training for Strict Cold-start Item Recommendation (2023) Graph Pretraining and Foundation Models |
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| 17 | Lianghao Xia | 41 | 3 | 69 DiffKG: Knowledge Graph Diffusion Model for Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 61 Knowledge Graph Self-Supervised Rationalization for Recommendation (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 18 | James Caverlee | 40 | 3 | 62 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications 60 A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists (2019) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications |
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| 19 | Xiaolong Liu 0012 | 40 | 3 | 77 Knowledge Graph Context-Enhanced Diversified Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 38 Collaborative Alignment for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 20 | Dongxiao He | 39 | 3 | 41 LLM-FSGNN: LLM-Guided Feature-Structure Augmentation Graph Neural Network for Cold-Start Recommendation (2026) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion 41 Feature-Structure Adaptive Completion Graph Neural Network for Cold-start Recommendation (2025) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion |
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| 22 | Xinhang Li 0001 | 39 | 3 | 60 IMF: Interactive Multimodal Fusion Model for Link Prediction (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 37 Optimal Transport Enhanced Cross-City Site Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation |
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| 23 | Wei Guo 0006 | 39 | 3 | 75 User Behavior Enriched Temporal Knowledge Graphs for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 40 Intent-aware Multi-source Contrastive Alignment for Tag-enhanced Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 24 | Bowen Zheng 0005 | 39 | 3 | 40 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 39 Adapting Large Language Models by Integrating Collaborative Semantics for Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization |
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| 25 | Jianghong Ma | 39 | 3 | 67 DRGame: Diversified Recommendation for Multi-category Video Games with Balanced Implicit Preferences (2024) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications 65 Correlation-Driven Explainable Recommendation With Aspect and Rating Boosted Representation Learning: A Unified Joint-Ranking Framework (2025) Explainable and Causal Recommendation |
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| 26 | Keping Bi | 38 | 3 | 73 Explainable Product Search with a Dynamic Relation Embedding Model (2020) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 52 Learning a Fine-Grained Review-based Transformer Model for Personalized Product Search (2021) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 29 | Jing Zhu 0005 | 38 | 3 | 58 NegatER: Unsupervised Discovery of Negatives in Commonsense Knowledge Bases (2021) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 50 LinkGPT: Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Link Prediction in Text-Attributed Graphs (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 30 | Yinwei Wei | 38 | 3 | 53 Dynamic Multimodal Fusion via Meta-Learning Towards Micro-Video Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 43 Online Distillation-enhanced Multi-modal Transformer for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 31 | Yupeng Hou | 38 | 3 | 54 Review-Enhanced Universal Sequence Representation Learning for Recommender Systems (2025) Text Embedding and Representation Learning 40 Towards Universal Sequence Representation Learning for Recommender Systems (2022) Text Embedding and Representation Learning |
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| 32 | Jiangxia Cao | 38 | 3 | 48 Enhancing Content-based Recommendation via Large Language Model (2024) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment 41 Contrastive Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2022) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation |
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| 33 | Noveen Sachdeva | 38 | 3 | 60 How Useful are Reviews for Recommendation? A Critical Review and Potential Improvements (2020) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 51 Attentive neural architecture incorporating song features for music recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information |