Multi-scale Context-aware User Interest Learning for Behavior Pattern Modeling
摘要
Next Basket Recommendation (NBR) mines user interests from sequential basket records where multiple items are purchased together. Existing methods face two challenges: 1) insufficient modeling of behavioral patterns, leading to coarse-grained user interest learning; and 2) information loss in user interest learning, leading to suboptimal results. We propose a novel solution, Multi-scale Context-aware Recrecommendation (MCRec), which overcomes these issues by mapping basket sequences to tensors for latent space representation learning. MCRec employs vertical, horizontal, and dilated convolutions to extract multi-scale context-aware user interests that capture diverse behavioral patterns. Specifically, MCRec integrates an adaptive user interest fusion mechanism for multi-level user interest modeling, which combines user representations from historical records with preferences derived from interaction frequencies for accurate predictions. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that MCRec outperforms several representative NBR methods and achieves state-of-the-art results.