ISLF: Interest Shift and Latent Factors Combination Model for Session-based Recommendation

ISLF: Interest Shift and Latent Factors Combination Model for Session-based Recommendation

Jing Song, Hong Shen, Zijing Ou, Junyi Zhang, Teng Xiao, Shangsong Liang

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 5765-5771. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/799

Session-based recommendation is a challenging problem due to the inherent uncertainty of user behavior and the limited historical click information. Latent factors and the complex dependencies within the user’s current session have an important impact on the user's main intention, but the existing methods do not explicitly consider this point. In this paper, we propose a novel model, Interest Shift and Latent Factors Combination Model (ISLF), which can capture the user's main intention by taking into account the user’s interest shift (i.e. long-term and short-term interest) and latent factors simultaneously. In addition, we experimentally give an explicit explanation of this combination in our ISLF. Our experimental results on three benchmark datasets show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on all test datasets.
Keywords:
Uncertainty in AI: Sequential Decision Making
Machine Learning: Deep Learning
Machine Learning: Recommender Systems