Fourier Kolmogorov-Arnold Network and Hypergraph Enhanced Contrastive Learning for Recommendation
Abstract
Recommendation plays a crucial role in the modern Web ecosystem, powering personalized services across e-commerce, social platforms, and online content networks. To model complex user–item interactions in such Web environments, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a popular and effective approach due to their ability to capture relational dependencies. However, existing GNN-based methods face some challenges, such as limited capacity for nonlinear representation, inability to capture global structural information, and susceptibility to noise in user interaction data. Although self-supervised learning methods have been introduced to address these issues, these methods often overlook the intricate dependencies between users and items and fail to effectively utilize high-order global information. To address these challenges, we propose Fourier Kolmogorov-Arnold Network and Hypergraph Enhanced Contrastive Learning (FHCL) for recommendation. Our method constructs two complementary views: a graph generative view and a denoising view. In the graph generative view, we use the Fourier Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (Fourier KAN) to enhance the nonlinear representation capabilities by decomposing complex user-item interactions. Subsequently, we employ Variational Graph Auto-Encoders (VGAE) to reconstruct the graph structure, extracting meaningful structural information while mitigating the impact of noise. Then we use hypergraph learning to capture high-order global dependencies. In the denoising view, we introduce a denoising matrix to filter noisy edges and further combine hypergraph learning to improve user preferences. Finally, we integrate these views through contrastive learning to generate robust and accurate recommendations. Extensive experiments on two public datasets demonstrate the superior performance of FHCL, while comprehensive ablation studies validate the necessity and effectiveness of each component.
Assigned reviewers
| # | Reviewer | Match | Why (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy) | |
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| 1 | Lianghao Xia | 66 | 100 Self-Supervised Hypergraph Transformer for Recommender Systems (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 85 Automated Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 85 LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 2 | Mengyuan Jing | 63 | 73 Graph Contrastive Learning with Adaptive Augmentation for Recommendation (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 73 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 73 Contrastive Self-supervised Learning in Recommender Systems: A Survey (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 3 | Ke Wang 0038 | 63 | 83 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 83 Multi-aspect Graph Contrastive Learning for Review-enhanced Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 83 Rating-Review Graph Contrastive Learning for Review-based Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
Area chair
| Area chair | Match | |
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| Qiaoyu Tan | 47 |
Area-chair candidates (6)
| Qiaoyu Tan assigned | 47 | 7 papers | |
| Leyu Lin | 47 | 15 papers | |
| Yankai Chen 0001 | 45 | 6 papers | |
| Xin Xin 0003 | 44 | 10 papers | |
| Weiming Liu 0005 COI: author | 43 | 8 papers | |
| Yanan Niu | 41 | 15 papers |
Candidates from the panel ranked by match score
| # | Reviewer | Match | Load | Why | |
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| 1 | Lianghao Xia assigned | 66 | 3 | 100 Self-Supervised Hypergraph Transformer for Recommender Systems (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 85 Automated Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 2 | Mengyuan Jing assigned | 63 | 3 | 73 Graph Contrastive Learning with Adaptive Augmentation for Recommendation (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 73 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 3 | Yinwei Wei | 63 | 3 | 85 MultiCBR: Multi-view Contrastive Learning for Bundle Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 83 Graph-Refined Convolutional Network for Multimedia Recommendation with Implicit Feedback (2020) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 4 | Ke Wang 0038 assigned | 63 | 3 | 83 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 83 Multi-aspect Graph Contrastive Learning for Review-enhanced Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 5 | Yi Zhang 0103 COI: co-author | 57 | 3 | 85 Unveiling Contrastive Learning's Capability of Neighborhood Aggregation for Collaborative Filtering (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 85 MixRec: Individual and Collective Mixing Empowers Data Augmentation for Recommender Systems (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 6 | Xubin Ren | 57 | 3 | 73 LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 73 SSLRec: A Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 7 | Yongjing Hao | 56 | 3 | 100 LMACL: Improving Graph Collaborative Filtering with Learnable Model Augmentation Contrastive Learning (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 100 Meta-optimized Structural and Semantic Contrastive Learning for Graph Collaborative Filtering (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 8 | Xiaolong Liu 0012 | 55 | 3 | 64 Group Identification via Transitional Hypergraph Convolution with Cross-view Self-supervised Learning (2023) Social and Group Recommendation 62 DGRec: Graph Neural Network for Recommendation with Diversified Embedding Generation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning |
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| 9 | Dongxiao He | 55 | 3 | 73 A New Mechanism for Eliminating Implicit Conflict in Graph Contrastive Learning (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 73 Self-Supervised Graph Neural Networks via Diverse and Interactive Message Passing (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 10 | Wei Wei 0027 | 53 | 3 | 70 Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 69 SSLRec: A Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation |
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| 11 | Jiuqiang Li 0002 | 53 | 3 | 64 Graph Diffusive Self-Supervised Learning for Social Recommendation (2024) Social and Group Recommendation 49 Disentangled Contrastive Bundle Recommendation with Conditional Diffusion (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders |
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| 12 | Chunyang Wang 0001 | 50 | 3 | 83 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 83 Guiding Graph Learning with Denoised Modality for Multi-modal Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 13 | Chen Wang 0052 | 49 | 3 | 62 Unified Pretraining for Recommendation via Task Hypergraphs (2024) Graph Pretraining and Foundation Models 62 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning |
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| 14 | Lantao Hu | 48 | 3 | 73 Towards Robust Recommendation via Decision Boundary-aware Graph Contrastive Learning (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 62 Soft Contrastive Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation |
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| 15 | Jiancan Wu | 48 | 3 | 89 Graph Contrastive Learning With Negative Propagation for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 85 Self-supervised Graph Learning for Recommendation (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 16 | Riwei Lai | 48 | 3 | 60 Disentangled Negative Sampling for Collaborative Filtering (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 56 Multi-Faceted Global Item Relation Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation |
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| 17 | Mingdai Yang | 47 | 3 | 64 Group Identification via Transitional Hypergraph Convolution with Cross-view Self-supervised Learning (2023) Social and Group Recommendation 62 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning |
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| 19 | Bowen Zheng 0005 | 47 | 3 | 85 Enhancing Graph Contrastive Learning with Reliable and Informative Augmentation for Recommendation (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 43 Bridging Textual-Collaborative Gap through Semantic Codes for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs |
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| 21 | Lingling Yi | 46 | 3 | 73 Dual Interests-Aligned Graph Auto-Encoders for Cross-domain Recommendation in WeChat (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 71 Item-Provider Co-learning for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 22 | Yixin Liu 0001 | 46 | 3 | 73 Beyond Smoothing: Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning with Edge Heterophily Discriminating (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 73 Learning Strong Graph Neural Networks with Weak Information (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 23 | Min Hou 0004 | 45 | 3 | 56 Pre-training General User Representation with Multi-type APP Behaviors (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 55 STGCN: A Spatial-Temporal Aware Graph Learning Method for POI Recommendation (2020) Graph Neural Network Architectures for CF |
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| 26 | Yong He 0009 | 44 | 3 | 61 Global-Aware Model-Free Self-distillation for Recommendation System (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 45 The Devil is in the Sources! Knowledge Enhanced Cross-Domain Recommendation in an Information Bottleneck Perspective (2024) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR |
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| 28 | Lichan Hong | 43 | 3 | 61 Self-supervised Learning for Large-scale Item Recommendations (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 43 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs |
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| 29 | Noveen Sachdeva | 42 | 3 | 49 ECLARE: Extreme Classification with Label Graph Correlations (2021) Graph Neural Network Architectures for CF 48 GC4NC: A Benchmark Framework for Graph Condensation on Node Classification with New Insights (2025) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning |
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| 30 | Ed H. Chi | 42 | 3 | 61 Self-supervised Learning for Large-scale Item Recommendations (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 43 Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs |
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| 31 | Wei Guo 0006 | 42 | 3 | 73 Intent-aware Multi-source Contrastive Alignment for Tag-enhanced Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 54 Compressed Interaction Graph based Framework for Multi-behavior Recommendation (2023) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation |
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| 32 | Yongxin Ni | 42 | 3 | 44 Efficient and Effective Adaptation of Multimodal Foundation Models in Sequential Recommendation (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation 43 Where to Go Next for Recommender Systems? ID- vs. Modality-based Recommender Models Revisited (2023) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 33 | Jieming Zhu | 42 | 3 | 45 EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs 44 EAGER-LLM: Enhancing Large Language Models as Recommenders through Exogenous Behavior-Semantic Integration (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization |
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| 34 | Seongmin Park 0002 | 42 | 3 | 51 uCTRL: Unbiased Contrastive Representation Learning via Alignment and Uniformity for Collaborative Filtering (2023) Popularity Bias and Debiasing in Recommendation 44 LLM-Enhanced Linear Autoencoders for Recommendation (2025) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment |
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| 35 | Jiangxia Cao | 42 | 3 | 45 Cross-Domain Recommendation to Cold-Start Users via Variational Information Bottleneck (2022) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR 45 DisenCDR: Learning Disentangled Representations for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2022) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR |