  With the proliferation of social media, a growing number of users search for
and join group activities in their daily life. This develops a need for the
study on the group identification (GI) task, i.e., recommending groups to
users. The major challenge in this task is how to predict users' preferences
for groups based on not only previous group participation of users but also
users' interests in items. Although recent developments in Graph Neural
Networks (GNNs) accomplish embedding multiple types of objects in graph-based
recommender systems, they, however, fail to address this GI problem
comprehensively. In this paper, we propose a novel framework named Group
Identification via Transitional Hypergraph Convolution with Graph
Self-supervised Learning (GTGS). We devise a novel transitional hypergraph
convolution layer to leverage users' preferences for items as prior knowledge
when seeking their group preferences. To construct comprehensive user/group
representations for GI task, we design the cross-view self-supervised learning
to encourage the intrinsic consistency between item and group preferences for
each user, and the group-based regularization to enhance the distinction among
group embeddings. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets verify the
superiority of GTGS. Additional detailed investigations are conducted to
demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
