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arXiv 2005.14255cs.IR
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基于XML的推荐系统

Towards Question-based Recommender Systems

Jie Zou, Yifan Chen, Evangelos Kanoulas

摘要:

近年来,基于对话和问题的推荐系统越来越受到关注,用户能够与系统对话并更好地控制推荐。然而,与传统的推荐系统相比,该领域的研究仍然有限。在这项工作中,我们提出了一种新的基于Web的推荐方法,Qrec,以帮助用户找到项目交互式,通过回答自动构建和算法选择的问题。以前的会话推荐系统要求用户表达他们对项目或项目方面的偏好。相反,我们的模型要求用户表达他们对描述性项目特征的偏好。该模型首先通过一种新的矩阵分解算法进行离线训练,然后根据用户的回答,通过一个封闭形式的解决方案在线迭代更新用户和项目的潜在因素。同时,我们的模型推断出潜在的用户的信念和偏好的项目,学习一个最佳的提问策略,通过使用广义二叉搜索,从而问一系列的问题给用户。我们的实验结果表明,我们提出的矩阵分解模型优于传统的概率矩阵分解模型。此外,我们提出的Qrec模型可以大大提高最先进的基线的性能,并且在冷启动用户和项目推荐的情况下也是有效的。

英文摘要:

Conversational and question-based recommender systems have gained increasing attention in recent years, with users enabled to converse with the system and better control recommendations. Nevertheless, research in the field is still limited, compared to traditional recommender systems. In this work, we propose a novel Question-based recommendation method, Qrec, to assist users to find items interactively, by answering automatically constructed and algorithmically chosen questions. Previous conversational recommender systems ask users to express their preferences over items or item facets. Our model, instead, asks users to express their preferences over descriptive item features. The model is first trained offline by a novel matrix factorization algorithm, and then iteratively updates the user and item latent factors online by a closed-form solution based on the user answers. Meanwhile, our model infers the underlying user belief and preferences over items to learn an optimal question-asking strategy by using Generalized Binary Search, so as to ask a sequence of questions to the user. Our experimental results demonstrate that our proposed matrix factorization model outperforms the traditional Probabilistic Matrix Factorization model. Further, our proposed Qrec model can greatly improve the performance of state-of-the-art baselines, and it is also effective in the case of cold-start user and item recommendations.

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