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PEN4Rec: Preference Evolution Networks for Session-Based Recommendation

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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2021)

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Abstract

Session-based recommendation aims to predict user the next action based on historical behaviors in an anonymous session. For better recommendations, it is vital to capture user preferences as well as their dynamics. Besides, user preferences evolve over time dynamically and each preference has its own evolving track. However, most previous works neglect the evolving trend of preferences and can be easily disturbed by the effect of preference drifting. In this paper, we propose a novel Preference Evolution Networks for session-based Recommendation (PEN4Rec) to model preference evolving process by a two-stage retrieval from historical contexts. Specifically, the first-stage process integrates relevant behaviors according to recent items. Then, the second-stage process models the preference evolving trajectory over time dynamically and infer rich preferences. The process can strengthen the effect of relevant sequential behaviors during the preference evolution and weaken the disturbance from preference drifting. Extensive experiments on three public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed model.

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Notes

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    The source code is available at https://github.com/zerohd4869/PEN4Rec.

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    https://2015.recsyschallenge.com/challenge.html.

  3. 3.

    https://cikm2016.cs.iupui.edu/cikm-cup/.

  4. 4.

    https://www.dtic.upf.edu/ocelma/MusicRecommendationDataset/lastfm-1K.html.

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Hu, D., Wei, L., Zhou, W., Huai, X., Fang, Z., Hu, S. (2021). PEN4Rec: Preference Evolution Networks for Session-Based Recommendation. In: Qiu, H., Zhang, C., Fei, Z., Qiu, M., Kung, SY. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12815. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82136-4_41

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