Search, retrieval & recommendation· 2020
LightGCN: Simplifying and Powering Graph Convolution Network for Recommendation
On the reading lists
- #378 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #29 in Search, retrieval & recommendation (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Simplified graph recommendation to neighborhood aggregation, establishing a strong and widely adopted baseline.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2020 (from arXiv 2002.02126)
- Citations
- 5,834 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Also relevant to
- Graph learning
- Score
- 0.393 · computed rank 378 · consensus 0.25, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.909 (2020s · retrieval), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.