Basket Representation Learning by Hypergraph Convolution on Repeated Items for Next-basket Recommendation

Basket Representation Learning by Hypergraph Convolution on Repeated Items for Next-basket Recommendation

Yalin Yu, Enneng Yang, Guibing Guo, Linying Jiang, Xingwei Wang

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 2415-2422. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/268

Basket representation plays an important role in the task of next-basket recommendation. However, existing methods generally adopts pooling operations to learn a basket's representation, from which two critical issues can be identified. First, they treat a basket as a set of items independent and identically distributed. We find that items occurring in the same basket have much higher correlations than those randomly selected by conducting data analysis on a real dataset. Second, although some works have recognized the importance of items repeatedly purchased in multiple baskets, they ignore the correlations among the repeated items in a same basket, whose importance is shown by our data analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel Basket Representation Learning (BRL) model by leveraging the correlations among intra-basket items. Specifically, we first connect all the items (in a basket) as a hyperedge, where the correlations among different items can be well exploited by hypergraph convolution operations. Meanwhile, we also connect all the repeated items in the same basket as a hyperedge, whereby their correlations can be further strengthened. We generate a negative (positive) view of the basket by data augmentation on repeated (non-repeated) items, and apply contrastive learning to force more agreements on repeated items. Finally, experimental results on three real datasets show that our approach performs better than eight baselines in ranking accuracy.
Keywords:
Data Mining: DM: Recommender systems
Data Mining: DM: Information retrieval