Learning Category Trees for ID-Based Recommendation: Exploring the Power of Differentiable Vector Quantization

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Qijiong, Fan, Lu, Xiao, Jiaren, Zhu, Jieming, Wu, Xiao-Ming
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author Liu, Qijiong
Fan, Lu
Xiao, Jiaren
Zhu, Jieming
Wu, Xiao-Ming
author_facet Liu, Qijiong
Fan, Lu
Xiao, Jiaren
Zhu, Jieming
Wu, Xiao-Ming
contents Category information plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality and personalization of recommender systems. Nevertheless, the availability of item category information is not consistently present, particularly in the context of ID-based recommendations. In this work, we propose a novel approach to automatically learn and generate entity (i.e., user or item) category trees for ID-based recommendation. Specifically, we devise a differentiable vector quantization framework for automatic category tree generation, namely CAGE, which enables the simultaneous learning and refinement of categorical code representations and entity embeddings in an end-to-end manner, starting from the randomly initialized states. With its high adaptability, CAGE can be easily integrated into both sequential and non-sequential recommender systems. We validate the effectiveness of CAGE on various recommendation tasks including list completion, collaborative filtering, and click-through rate prediction, across different recommendation models. We release the code and data for others to reproduce the reported results.
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spellingShingle Learning Category Trees for ID-Based Recommendation: Exploring the Power of Differentiable Vector Quantization
Liu, Qijiong
Fan, Lu
Xiao, Jiaren
Zhu, Jieming
Wu, Xiao-Ming
Information Retrieval
Category information plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality and personalization of recommender systems. Nevertheless, the availability of item category information is not consistently present, particularly in the context of ID-based recommendations. In this work, we propose a novel approach to automatically learn and generate entity (i.e., user or item) category trees for ID-based recommendation. Specifically, we devise a differentiable vector quantization framework for automatic category tree generation, namely CAGE, which enables the simultaneous learning and refinement of categorical code representations and entity embeddings in an end-to-end manner, starting from the randomly initialized states. With its high adaptability, CAGE can be easily integrated into both sequential and non-sequential recommender systems. We validate the effectiveness of CAGE on various recommendation tasks including list completion, collaborative filtering, and click-through rate prediction, across different recommendation models. We release the code and data for others to reproduce the reported results.
title Learning Category Trees for ID-Based Recommendation: Exploring the Power of Differentiable Vector Quantization
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16761