Sequential recommendation with long-short-term preference and side information
摘要
Sequential recommendation aims to address the information explosion problem in many online scenarios by modeling the sequence of historical interactions of a user and recommending the next potential interesting item to the user. The user’s long- and short-term preferences combine his overall tastes and latest needs, fully reflecting the persistence and variability of user preferences. Some state-of-the-art models enhance the expressiveness of item embedding by integrating various side information. In doing so, learning a user’s underlying interests from multiple perspectives is possible. To combine these two types of information, a recommendation model that incorporates Long-Short-Term preferences and Side Information(LST-SI) is proposed. Precisely, the LST-SI model first models the preference transition patterns of item IDs and side information using two independent self-attention networks. It then uses two attention modules to learn the long-short-term preferences of item IDs and side information. Lastly, we concatenate the learned feature representations of item IDs and side information and input them into a fully connected layer to obtain the final user interest representation. Experimental results on three real-world public datasets demonstrate that LST-SI outperforms other baseline models in terms of NDCG and recall, mainly when dealing with long historical user interaction sequences. Our source code is available at https://github.com/cyh512167618/LST-SI/tree/master.