Interacting Attention-gated Recurrent Networks for Recommendation

Wenjie Pei, Jie Yang, Zhu Sun, Jie Zhang, Alessandro Bozzon, David Tax

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Abstract

Capturing the temporal dynamics of user preferences over items is important for recommendation. Existing methods mainly assume that all time steps in user-item interaction history are equally relevant to recommendation, which however does not apply in real-world scenarios where user-item interactions can often happen accidentally. More importantly, they learn user and item dynamics separately, thus failing to capture their joint effects on user-item interactions. To better model user and item dynamics, we present the Interacting Attention-gated Recurrent Network (IARN) which adopts the attention model to measure the relevance of each time step. In particular, we propose a novel attention scheme to learn the attention scores of user and item history in an interacting way, thus to account for the dependencies between user and item dynamics in shaping user-item interactions. By doing so, IARN can selectively memorize different time steps of a user's history when predicting her preferences over different items. Our model can therefore provide meaningful interpretations for recommendation results, which could be further enhanced by auxiliary features. Extensive validation on real-world datasets shows that IARN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM'17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1459-1468
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-4918-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2017
EventThe 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management: CIKM 2017 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 6 Nov 201710 Nov 2017

Conference

ConferenceThe 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Abbreviated titleCIKM'17
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period6/11/1710/11/17

Keywords

  • Recurrent Neural Network
  • Attention Model
  • User-item Interaction
  • Feature-based Recommendation

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