Integrating Item Relevance in Training Loss for Sequential Recommender Systems

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Main Authors: Bacciu, Andrea, Siciliano, Federico, Tonellotto, Nicola, Silvestri, Fabrizio
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Published: 2023
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author Bacciu, Andrea
Siciliano, Federico
Tonellotto, Nicola
Silvestri, Fabrizio
author_facet Bacciu, Andrea
Siciliano, Federico
Tonellotto, Nicola
Silvestri, Fabrizio
contents Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) are a popular type of recommender system that learns from a user's history to predict the next item they are likely to interact with. However, user interactions can be affected by noise stemming from account sharing, inconsistent preferences, or accidental clicks. To address this issue, we (i) propose a new evaluation protocol that takes multiple future items into account and (ii) introduce a novel relevance-aware loss function to train a SRS with multiple future items to make it more robust to noise. Our relevance-aware models obtain an improvement of ~1.2% of NDCG@10 and 0.88% in the traditional evaluation protocol, while in the new evaluation protocol, the improvement is ~1.63% of NDCG@10 and ~1.5% of HR w.r.t the best performing models.
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spellingShingle Integrating Item Relevance in Training Loss for Sequential Recommender Systems
Bacciu, Andrea
Siciliano, Federico
Tonellotto, Nicola
Silvestri, Fabrizio
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) are a popular type of recommender system that learns from a user's history to predict the next item they are likely to interact with. However, user interactions can be affected by noise stemming from account sharing, inconsistent preferences, or accidental clicks. To address this issue, we (i) propose a new evaluation protocol that takes multiple future items into account and (ii) introduce a novel relevance-aware loss function to train a SRS with multiple future items to make it more robust to noise. Our relevance-aware models obtain an improvement of ~1.2% of NDCG@10 and 0.88% in the traditional evaluation protocol, while in the new evaluation protocol, the improvement is ~1.63% of NDCG@10 and ~1.5% of HR w.r.t the best performing models.
title Integrating Item Relevance in Training Loss for Sequential Recommender Systems
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10824