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Temporal Cross-Media Retrieval with Soft-Smoothing
Multimedia information have strong temporal correlations that shape the way
modalities co-occur over time. In this paper we study the dynamic nature of
multimedia and social-media information, where the temporal dimension emerges
as a strong source of evidence for learning the temporal correlations across
visual and textual modalities. So far, cross-media retrieval models, explored
the correlations between different modalities (e.g. text and image) to learn a
common subspace, in which semantically similar instances lie in the same
neighbourhood. Building on such knowledge, we propose a novel temporal
cross-media neural architecture, that departs from standard cross-media
methods, by explicitly accounting for the temporal dimension through temporal
subspace learning. The model is softly-constrained with temporal and
inter-modality constraints that guide the new subspace learning task by
favouring temporal correlations between semantically similar and temporally
close instances. Experiments on three distinct datasets show that accounting
for time turns out to be important for cross-media retrieval. Namely, the
proposed method outperforms a set of baselines on the task of temporal
cross-media retrieval, demonstrating its effectiveness for performing temporal
subspace learning.Comment: To appear in ACM MM 201
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
A kernel-based framework for learning graded relations from data
Driven by a large number of potential applications in areas like
bioinformatics, information retrieval and social network analysis, the problem
setting of inferring relations between pairs of data objects has recently been
investigated quite intensively in the machine learning community. To this end,
current approaches typically consider datasets containing crisp relations, so
that standard classification methods can be adopted. However, relations between
objects like similarities and preferences are often expressed in a graded
manner in real-world applications. A general kernel-based framework for
learning relations from data is introduced here. It extends existing approaches
because both crisp and graded relations are considered, and it unifies existing
approaches because different types of graded relations can be modeled,
including symmetric and reciprocal relations. This framework establishes
important links between recent developments in fuzzy set theory and machine
learning. Its usefulness is demonstrated through various experiments on
synthetic and real-world data.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication.
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