Community-Aware Social Community Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05107v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:42:45 GMT
• Title: Community-Aware Social Community Recommendation
• Authors: Runhao Jiang, Renchi Yang, Wenqing Lin,
• Abstract summary: Social recommendation seeks to leverage social ties among users to alleviate the sparsity issue of user-item interactions.<n>Existing social recommendation models are mainly devised for recommending regular items such as blogs, images, and products.<n>This paper presents CASO, a novel and effective model specially designed for social community recommendation.
• Score: 9.816469035525701
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Social recommendation, which seeks to leverage social ties among users to alleviate the sparsity issue of user-item interactions, has emerged as a popular technique for elevating personalized services in recommender systems. Despite being effective, existing social recommendation models are mainly devised for recommending regular items such as blogs, images, and products, and largely fail for community recommendations due to overlooking the unique characteristics of communities. Distinctly, communities are constituted by individuals, who present high dynamicity and relate to rich structural patterns in social networks. To our knowledge, limited research has been devoted to comprehensively exploiting this information for recommending communities. To bridge this gap, this paper presents CASO, a novel and effective model specially designed for social community recommendation. Under the hood, CASO harnesses three carefully-crafted encoders for user embedding, wherein two of them extract community-related global and local structures from the social network via social modularity maximization and social closeness aggregation, while the third one captures user preferences using collaborative filtering with observed user-community affiliations. To further eliminate feature redundancy therein, we introduce a mutual exclusion between social and collaborative signals. Finally, CASO includes a community detection loss in the model optimization, thereby producing community-aware embeddings for communities. Our extensive experiments evaluating CASO against nine strong baselines on six real-world social networks demonstrate its consistent and remarkable superiority over the state of the art in terms of community recommendation performance.

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