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面向大规模推荐系统的贝叶斯非平稳线性老虎机

Bayesian Non-stationary Linear Bandits for Large-Scale Recommender Systems

Tübingen University(图宾根大学);Fraunhofer Heinrich Herz Institute(弗劳恩霍夫海因里希·赫兹研究所)

Saeed Ghoorchian, Evgenii Kortukov, Setareh Maghsudi

AI总结:

针对高维非平稳推荐场景,提出基于汤普森采样和随机投影的线性老虎机策略,降低计算复杂度并保证遗憾界,实验验证有效。

摘要:

利用上下文信息有望提升推荐系统的性能。在大数据时代,这类辅助信息往往具有多个维度。因此,开发能够实时处理这种高维上下文的决策算法至关重要。当决策者面临多种推荐项目时,这一挑战尤为突出。此外,项目流行度或用户偏好的变化可能因环境分布偏移缺乏鲁棒性而损害已部署推荐系统的性能。本文基于线性上下文多臂老虎机框架来解决这一问题。我们针对具有高维特征向量、大规模臂集和非平稳奖励生成过程的线性老虎机问题,开发了一种决策策略。我们的基于汤普森采样的策略通过随机投影降低特征向量的维度,并使用指数递增的权重来随时间减少过去观测的影响。我们提出的推荐系统采用该策略在线学习用户的物品偏好,同时最小化运行时间。我们证明了一个遗憾界,其缩放因子为降维后的维度,而非原始维度。为了数值评估我们提出的推荐系统,我们将其应用于三个真实世界数据集。理论和数值结果表明,与最先进方法相比,我们提出的算法在计算复杂度与遗憾性能之间取得了有效权衡。

英文摘要:

Taking advantage of contextual information can potentially boost the performance of recommender systems. In the era of big data, such side information often has several dimensions. Thus, developing decision-making algorithms to cope with such a high-dimensional context in real time is essential. That is specifically challenging when the decision-maker has a variety of items to recommend. In addition, changes in items' popularity or users' preferences can hinder the performance of the deployed recommender system due to a lack of robustness to distribution shifts in the environment. In this paper, we build upon the linear contextual multi-armed bandit framework to address this problem. We develop a decision-making policy for a linear bandit problem with high-dimensional feature vectors, a large set of arms, and non-stationary reward-generating processes. Our Thompson sampling-based policy reduces the dimension of feature vectors using random projection and uses exponentially increasing weights to decrease the influence of past observations with time. Our proposed recommender system employs this policy to learn the users' item preferences online while minimizing runtime. We prove a regret bound that scales as a factor of the reduced dimension instead of the original one. To evaluate our proposed recommender system numerically, we apply it to three real-world datasets. The theoretical and numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm in making a trade-off between computational complexity and regret performance compared to the state-of-the-art.

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