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CPGRec+: A Balance-oriented Framework for Personalized Video Game Recommendations

Xiping Li , Aier Yang , Jianghong Ma , Kangzhe Liu , Shanshan Feng , Haijun Zhang , Yi Zhao
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CPGRec+ improves game recommendations on Steam data by reweighting player-game edges with signed preference strengths and using LLMs to generate preference-aware descriptions, yielding higher accuracy and diversity than prior models.

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Recommender systems for video games often face a trade-off: models that predict what a player will enjoy accurately tend to suggest only popular or similar games, reducing variety. Graph neural networks, which model players and games as connected nodes, can suffer from over-smoothing where distinctions blur after many layers. The new PER module assigns positive or negative weights to edges based on whether an interaction shows interest or disinterest, then scales them by preference strength to preserve differences during graph processing. The PRG module prompts large language models to compare a player's history against broader trends and produce tailored text descriptions for both players and games. These refined representations are fed into the recommendation model. Tests on two Steam datasets reportedly show gains in both prediction accuracy and recommendation diversity over existing methods.

Core claim

Experiments on two Steam datasets demonstrate CPGRec+'s superior accuracy and diversity over state-of-the-art models.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that signed edge reweighting and LLM-generated contextual descriptions will reliably mitigate over-smoothing and balance accuracy-diversity without introducing new biases or errors in preference inference.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.14586 by Aier Yang, Haijun Zhang, Jianghong Ma, Kangzhe Liu, Shanshan Feng, Xiping Li, Yi Zhao.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The long-tail phenomenon in the number of players across all games within Steam platform, with quantitative analysis via [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Figure (a) presents the number of edges in the Steam game network. Figures (b) and (c) show the average Euclidean distance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Two concrete examples for illustrating the disparities of historical interactions. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Illustration of the CPGRec+ framework, comprising three modules: Accuracy-driven module (Stringency-improved Game [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Illustration of the probability density of dwelling time of players of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Parameter sensitivity on 𝛼, which is the significance level applied in PER module. 7.5 Parameter Sensitivity In this section, we analyze the impact of the hyper-parameter 𝛼 in the PER module on Steam I. The parameter 𝛼 represents the significance level and determines the operational scope of PER by setting the threshold 𝑄𝛼 for the Fisher distribution-based sign decision. Specifically, a smaller 𝛼 indicates… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Spectral energy distribution of node representations on the player-game [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: An example of generating a game description. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: An example of generating a player description. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_9.png] view at source ↗
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The rapid expansion of gaming industry requires advanced recommender systems tailored to its dynamic landscape. Existing Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based methods primarily prioritize accuracy over diversity, overlooking their inherent trade-off. To address this, we previously proposed CPGRec, a balance-oriented gaming recommender system. However, CPGRec fails to account for critical disparities in player-game interactions, which carry varying significance in reflecting players' personal preferences and may exacerbate over-smoothness issues inherent in GNN-based models. Moreover, existing approaches underutilize the reasoning capabilities and extensive knowledge of large language models (LLMs) in addressing these limitations. To bridge this gap, we propose two new modules. First, Preference-informed Edge Reweighting (PER) module assigns signed edge weights to qualitatively distinguish significant player interests and disinterests while then quantitatively measuring preference strength to mitigate over-smoothing in graph convolutions. Second, Preference-informed Representation Generation (PRG) module leverages LLMs to generate contextualized descriptions of games and players by reasoning personal preferences from comparing global and personal interests, thereby refining representations of players and games. Experiments on \textcolor{black}{two Steam datasets} demonstrate CPGRec+'s superior accuracy and diversity over state-of-the-art models. The code is accessible at https://github.com/HsipingLi/CPGRec-Plus.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes CPGRec+, an extension of prior CPGRec work for video game recommendation. It introduces a Preference-informed Edge Reweighting (PER) module that assigns signed weights to player-game interaction edges to distinguish interests from disinterests and quantify preference strength, thereby mitigating GNN over-smoothing. It also adds a Preference-informed Representation Generation (PRG) module that employs LLMs to produce contextualized descriptions of players and games by comparing global versus personal interests. Experiments on two Steam datasets are reported to demonstrate improved accuracy and diversity relative to state-of-the-art baselines.

Significance. If the claimed gains prove robust, the work offers a concrete way to jointly optimize accuracy and diversity in GNN-based recommenders by explicitly modeling preference polarity and strength while leveraging LLM reasoning for richer node representations. The open-source code link is a positive factor for reproducibility in the IR community.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: the central claim of superior accuracy and diversity is asserted without any reported metrics (e.g., Recall@K, NDCG, diversity scores), baseline names, statistical significance tests, data-split details, or hyperparameter selection protocol. This directly undermines evaluation of whether PER and PRG deliver the stated improvements or whether results are sensitive to tuning choices.
  2. [Section 3.2] PRG module (Section 3.2): the module depends on LLM-generated contextual descriptions, yet no human evaluation of description fidelity, ablation isolating the LLM component, or error analysis on preference inference is provided. Without such checks, observed gains could arise from implementation artifacts or unquantified LLM biases/hallucinations rather than the intended mechanism.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract contains a stray LaTeX command (textcolor{black}) that should be removed.
  2. [General] Ensure all tables and figures include self-contained captions and that the GitHub repository provides exact prompts, LLM version, and dataset preprocessing scripts.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We will revise the manuscript to improve the transparency of experimental reporting and add validation for the PRG module, as detailed below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: the central claim of superior accuracy and diversity is asserted without any reported metrics (e.g., Recall@K, NDCG, diversity scores), baseline names, statistical significance tests, data-split details, or hyperparameter selection protocol. This directly undermines evaluation of whether PER and PRG deliver the stated improvements or whether results are sensitive to tuning choices.

    Authors: We acknowledge the abstract lacks specific numbers. The experiments section reports Recall@K, NDCG@K, and diversity scores against baselines on the two Steam datasets, along with data splits and some hyperparameter details. To fully address the concern, we will update the abstract to summarize key gains (e.g., relative improvements in Recall@10 and diversity) and expand the experiments section with explicit baseline names, statistical significance tests (paired t-tests with p-values), complete data-split protocol, and hyperparameter selection details. This will allow direct assessment of PER and PRG contributions. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Section 3.2] PRG module (Section 3.2): the module depends on LLM-generated contextual descriptions, yet no human evaluation of description fidelity, ablation isolating the LLM component, or error analysis on preference inference is provided. Without such checks, observed gains could arise from implementation artifacts or unquantified LLM biases/hallucinations rather than the intended mechanism.

    Authors: We agree additional checks are warranted for the PRG module. We will add an ablation study comparing CPGRec+ with and without the LLM-based PRG component (using non-contextual alternatives) to isolate its effect. We will also include error analysis on a sampled set of generated descriptions, assessing fidelity to personal vs. global preference reasoning. A full human evaluation is resource-intensive and not feasible in the current revision, but we will add qualitative examples and a limitations discussion on potential LLM biases/hallucinations. These changes will substantiate the mechanism. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity in empirical module proposal and evaluation

full rationale

The paper extends prior CPGRec work by introducing PER (signed edge reweighting to mitigate over-smoothing) and PRG (LLM-generated contextual descriptions from global vs. personal interests), then reports experimental gains in accuracy and diversity on two Steam datasets. No equations, first-principles derivations, or predictions are presented that reduce to fitted inputs or self-definitions by construction. Self-citation to CPGRec is used only to motivate limitations, not as load-bearing justification for uniqueness or correctness of the new claims, which rest on comparative empirical results rather than internal redefinitions or ansatzes smuggled via citation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim depends on domain assumptions about GNN over-smoothing and LLM reasoning ability, plus likely tunable parameters inside the edge reweighting and representation modules; no new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (1)
  • preference strength scaling factors
    The PER module quantitatively measures preference strength, implying parameters that must be chosen or fitted to distinguish interaction importance.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption GNN-based models inherently suffer from over-smoothing that degrades representation quality
    Directly invoked to motivate the PER module.
  • domain assumption Large language models can accurately reason about personal versus global interests to produce useful contextual descriptions
    Basis for the PRG module's claimed benefit.

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