Multi-Level Fine-Grained Interactions for Collaborative Filtering

In recent years, review-based collaborative filtering (CF) has been extensively studied, which is an combination between natural language processing (NLP) and recommender systems. The core pattern behind CF is to first model user and item, and then adopts a relatively primitive interaction between t...

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Main Authors: Xingjie Feng, Yunze Zeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8844254/
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description In recent years, review-based collaborative filtering (CF) has been extensively studied, which is an combination between natural language processing (NLP) and recommender systems. The core pattern behind CF is to first model user and item, and then adopts a relatively primitive interaction between them for personalized recommendation. This pattern is very similar to the issue of sequence matching in NLP, where sequence 1 and sequence 2 are matched with a fine-grained interaction leading to a better result. Therefore, there is a tremendous room for further improvement in current review-based CF to release the power of fine-grained interaction. To this end, we treat the user review set and item review set as two sequences, and design a multi-level matching attention layer for fine-grained interaction. In addition, we devise the aspect-level and review-level attention to measure the contribution of each review. Extensive experiments on 24 public datasets show that the proposed model consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches. More importantly, by selecting the relevant reviews according to the aspect attention score and review attention score, we can observe which specific item aspects that user mainly concerned and which item characteristic highly matched with the user preference, in which the recommendation interpretability can be enhanced.
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spelling doaj.art-b0c63cad6d254276a425bf23345af1902022-12-21T22:26:18ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01714316914318410.1109/ACCESS.2019.29412368844254Multi-Level Fine-Grained Interactions for Collaborative FilteringXingjie Feng0Yunze Zeng1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2081-0505College of Computer Science and Technology, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, ChinaIn recent years, review-based collaborative filtering (CF) has been extensively studied, which is an combination between natural language processing (NLP) and recommender systems. The core pattern behind CF is to first model user and item, and then adopts a relatively primitive interaction between them for personalized recommendation. This pattern is very similar to the issue of sequence matching in NLP, where sequence 1 and sequence 2 are matched with a fine-grained interaction leading to a better result. Therefore, there is a tremendous room for further improvement in current review-based CF to release the power of fine-grained interaction. To this end, we treat the user review set and item review set as two sequences, and design a multi-level matching attention layer for fine-grained interaction. In addition, we devise the aspect-level and review-level attention to measure the contribution of each review. Extensive experiments on 24 public datasets show that the proposed model consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches. More importantly, by selecting the relevant reviews according to the aspect attention score and review attention score, we can observe which specific item aspects that user mainly concerned and which item characteristic highly matched with the user preference, in which the recommendation interpretability can be enhanced.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8844254/Recommender systemcollaborative filteringdeep learningattention mechanism
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title Multi-Level Fine-Grained Interactions for Collaborative Filtering
title_full Multi-Level Fine-Grained Interactions for Collaborative Filtering
title_fullStr Multi-Level Fine-Grained Interactions for Collaborative Filtering
title_full_unstemmed Multi-Level Fine-Grained Interactions for Collaborative Filtering
title_short Multi-Level Fine-Grained Interactions for Collaborative Filtering
title_sort multi level fine grained interactions for collaborative filtering
topic Recommender system
collaborative filtering
deep learning
attention mechanism
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8844254/
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