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Recomm. Syst."],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,30]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>\n            <jats:bold>Graph convolutional network (GCN)<\/jats:bold>\n            has been extensively applied to\n            <jats:bold>recommender systems (RS)<\/jats:bold>\n            and achieved significant performance improvements through iteratively aggregating high-order neighbors to model the relevance between users and items as well as their characteristics. In the aggregation process, GCN models usually give neighbors the same or trainable weights based on implicit features, ignoring explicit ones. In this work, we take the features with explicit meanings or extracted with specific purpose as explicit ones (e.g., temporal features) and the others contained in user-item network as implicit ones (e.g., user preferences). However, some explicit features and knowledge play an essential role in improving the model representation ability and explainability in recommendation systems. To deal with the limitation, we propose a GCN based framework to embed the explicit features or those extracted with explicit intentions in this work. We also provide specific implementations based on two commonly researched features, temporal evolution and popularity bias. Specifically, we first experimentally analyze the popularity bias of the representation learning in RS based on two commonly used GCN models. Secondly, we propose a general framework to weigh neighbors based on explicit features or intentions. Thirdly, we implement a\n            <jats:bold>Temporal and Popularity weighted Aggregator (TPA)<\/jats:bold>\n            for GCN. The Interest-Forgetting Curve is utilized to capture temporal evolution as temporal weights and the data-driven Beta distribution is employed to tune the weights based on the node popularity flexibly. 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