The paper discusses the challenges in matrix completion for recommender systems due to data sparsity and long-tail distribution in real-world scenarios.
A new framework called Multi-Channel Hypergraph Contrastive Learning (MHCL) is proposed to address these challenges by adaptively learning hypergraph structures and capturing high-order correlations between nodes.
MHCL utilizes attention-based cross-view aggregation to jointly capture local and global collaborative relationships and encourages alignment between adjacent ratings through multi-channel cross-rating contrastive learning.
Extensive experiments on five public datasets show that MHCL outperforms current state-of-the-art approaches in rating prediction and matrix completion for recommender systems.