Motif-based graph attentional neural network for web service recommendation

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) based collaborative filtering has been successful in recommending services by effectively generalizing graph-structured data. However, most existing approaches focus on first-order interactions. Although recent approaches have utilized high-order connectivity, they still limit themselves to simple interactions and ignore the pattern of structural sub-graphs/motifs. In this study, we first explore the commonly used motifs in the Mashup-API interaction bipartite graph and propose a dedicated algorithm to generate the motif adjacency matrix. We then propose a Motif-based Graph Attention Network for service recommendation (MGSR) that utilizes a motif-based attention mechanism to capture the high-order information of various motifs, and a Collaborative Filtering model to generate the recommendation prediction. We have conducted extensive experiments on ProgrammableWeb dataset and our results demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed framework over some state-of-the-art approaches.(c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).