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Sequential Recommendation with Self-Attentive Multi-Adversarial Network
Recently, deep learning has made significant progress in the task of
sequential recommendation. Existing neural sequential recommenders typically
adopt a generative way trained with Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). When
context information (called factor) is involved, it is difficult to analyze
when and how each individual factor would affect the final recommendation
performance. For this purpose, we take a new perspective and introduce
adversarial learning to sequential recommendation. In this paper, we present a
Multi-Factor Generative Adversarial Network (MFGAN) for explicitly modeling the
effect of context information on sequential recommendation. Specifically, our
proposed MFGAN has two kinds of modules: a Transformer-based generator taking
user behavior sequences as input to recommend the possible next items, and
multiple factor-specific discriminators to evaluate the generated sub-sequence
from the perspectives of different factors. To learn the parameters, we adopt
the classic policy gradient method, and utilize the reward signal of
discriminators for guiding the learning of the generator. Our framework is
flexible to incorporate multiple kinds of factor information, and is able to
trace how each factor contributes to the recommendation decision over time.
Extensive experiments conducted on three real-world datasets demonstrate the
superiority of our proposed model over the state-of-the-art methods, in terms
of effectiveness and interpretability
Attentive Neural Architecture Incorporating Song Features For Music Recommendation
Recommender Systems are an integral part of music sharing platforms. Often
the aim of these systems is to increase the time, the user spends on the
platform and hence having a high commercial value. The systems which aim at
increasing the average time a user spends on the platform often need to
recommend songs which the user might want to listen to next at each point in
time. This is different from recommendation systems which try to predict the
item which might be of interest to the user at some point in the user lifetime
but not necessarily in the very near future. Prediction of the next song the
user might like requires some kind of modeling of the user interests at the
given point of time. Attentive neural networks have been exploiting the
sequence in which the items were selected by the user to model the implicit
short-term interests of the user for the task of next item prediction, however
we feel that the features of the songs occurring in the sequence could also
convey some important information about the short-term user interest which only
the items cannot. In this direction, we propose a novel attentive neural
architecture which in addition to the sequence of items selected by the user,
uses the features of these items to better learn the user short-term
preferences and recommend the next song to the user.Comment: Accepted as a paper at the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
(RecSys 18
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