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Yonghui Yang, Zhengwei Wu, Le Wu, Kun Zhang, Richang Hong, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Meng Wang

VGCL addresses sparse recommendation data by learning a Gaussian distribution for each user and item from the interaction graph, sampling alternate representations, and encouraging agreement within nodes and clusters. On three public datasets, it outscored comparison methods, including SimGCL; on Douban-Book, its top-20 ranking score was 0.1638 versus 0.1540. These are offline results from random splits, not deployed recommendations.

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