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Knowledge Graph semantic enhancement of input data for improving AI
Intelligent systems designed using machine learning algorithms require a
large number of labeled data. Background knowledge provides complementary, real
world factual information that can augment the limited labeled data to train a
machine learning algorithm. The term Knowledge Graph (KG) is in vogue as for
many practical applications, it is convenient and useful to organize this
background knowledge in the form of a graph. Recent academic research and
implemented industrial intelligent systems have shown promising performance for
machine learning algorithms that combine training data with a knowledge graph.
In this article, we discuss the use of relevant KGs to enhance input data for
two applications that use machine learning -- recommendation and community
detection. The KG improves both accuracy and explainability
Deep Item-based Collaborative Filtering for Top-N Recommendation
Item-based Collaborative Filtering(short for ICF) has been widely adopted in
recommender systems in industry, owing to its strength in user interest
modeling and ease in online personalization. By constructing a user's profile
with the items that the user has consumed, ICF recommends items that are
similar to the user's profile. With the prevalence of machine learning in
recent years, significant processes have been made for ICF by learning item
similarity (or representation) from data. Nevertheless, we argue that most
existing works have only considered linear and shallow relationship between
items, which are insufficient to capture the complicated decision-making
process of users.
In this work, we propose a more expressive ICF solution by accounting for the
nonlinear and higher-order relationship among items. Going beyond modeling only
the second-order interaction (e.g. similarity) between two items, we
additionally consider the interaction among all interacted item pairs by using
nonlinear neural networks. Through this way, we can effectively model the
higher-order relationship among items, capturing more complicated effects in
user decision-making. For example, it can differentiate which historical
itemsets in a user's profile are more important in affecting the user to make a
purchase decision on an item. We treat this solution as a deep variant of ICF,
thus term it as DeepICF. To justify our proposal, we perform empirical studies
on two public datasets from MovieLens and Pinterest. Extensive experiments
verify the highly positive effect of higher-order item interaction modeling
with nonlinear neural networks. Moreover, we demonstrate that by more
fine-grained second-order interaction modeling with attention network, the
performance of our DeepICF method can be further improved.Comment: 25 pages, submitted to TOI
Temporal Learning and Sequence Modeling for a Job Recommender System
We present our solution to the job recommendation task for RecSys Challenge
2016. The main contribution of our work is to combine temporal learning with
sequence modeling to capture complex user-item activity patterns to improve job
recommendations. First, we propose a time-based ranking model applied to
historical observations and a hybrid matrix factorization over time re-weighted
interactions. Second, we exploit sequence properties in user-items activities
and develop a RNN-based recommendation model. Our solution achieved 5
place in the challenge among more than 100 participants. Notably, the strong
performance of our RNN approach shows a promising new direction in employing
sequence modeling for recommendation systems.Comment: a shorter version in proceedings of RecSys Challenge 201
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