MP2: a momentum contrast approach for recommendation with pointwise and pairwise learning

Binary pointwise labels (aka implicit feedback) are heavily leveraged by deep learning based recommendation algorithms nowadays. In this paper we discuss the limited expressiveness of these labels may fail to accommodate varying degrees of user preference, and thus lead to conflicts during model tra...

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Main Authors: Wang, M, Guo, Y, Zhao, Z, Hu, G, Shen, Y, Gong, M, Torr, P
Format: Conference item
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2022
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author Wang, M
Guo, Y
Zhao, Z
Hu, G
Shen, Y
Gong, M
Torr, P
author_facet Wang, M
Guo, Y
Zhao, Z
Hu, G
Shen, Y
Gong, M
Torr, P
author_sort Wang, M
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description Binary pointwise labels (aka implicit feedback) are heavily leveraged by deep learning based recommendation algorithms nowadays. In this paper we discuss the limited expressiveness of these labels may fail to accommodate varying degrees of user preference, and thus lead to conflicts during model training, which we call annotation bias. To solve this issue, we find the soft-labeling property of pairwise labels could be utilized to alleviate the bias of pointwise labels. To this end, we propose a momentum contrast framework (\method ) that combines pointwise and pairwise learning for recommendation. \method has a three-tower network structure: one user network and two item networks. The two item networks are used for computing pointwise and pairwise loss respectively. To alleviate the influence of the annotation bias, we perform a momentum update to ensure a consistent item representation. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method against state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms.
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spellingShingle Wang, M
Guo, Y
Zhao, Z
Hu, G
Shen, Y
Gong, M
Torr, P
MP2: a momentum contrast approach for recommendation with pointwise and pairwise learning
title MP2: a momentum contrast approach for recommendation with pointwise and pairwise learning
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title_sort mp2 a momentum contrast approach for recommendation with pointwise and pairwise learning
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