UniSAR: Modeling User Transition Behaviors between Search and Recommendation

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Autores principales: Shi, Teng, Si, Zihua, Xu, Jun, Zhang, Xiao, Zang, Xiaoxue, Zheng, Kai, Leng, Dewei, Niu, Yanan, Song, Yang
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author Shi, Teng
Si, Zihua
Xu, Jun
Zhang, Xiao
Zang, Xiaoxue
Zheng, Kai
Leng, Dewei
Niu, Yanan
Song, Yang
author_facet Shi, Teng
Si, Zihua
Xu, Jun
Zhang, Xiao
Zang, Xiaoxue
Zheng, Kai
Leng, Dewei
Niu, Yanan
Song, Yang
contents Nowadays, many platforms provide users with both search and recommendation services as important tools for accessing information. The phenomenon has led to a correlation between user search and recommendation behaviors, providing an opportunity to model user interests in a fine-grained way. Existing approaches either model user search and recommendation behaviors separately or overlook the different transitions between user search and recommendation behaviors. In this paper, we propose a framework named UniSAR that effectively models the different types of fine-grained behavior transitions for providing users a Unified Search And Recommendation service. Specifically, UniSAR models the user transition behaviors between search and recommendation through three steps: extraction, alignment, and fusion, which are respectively implemented by transformers equipped with pre-defined masks, contrastive learning that aligns the extracted fine-grained user transitions, and cross-attentions that fuse different transitions. To provide users with a unified service, the learned representations are fed into the downstream search and recommendation models. Joint learning on both search and recommendation data is employed to utilize the knowledge and enhance each other. Experimental results on two public datasets demonstrated the effectiveness of UniSAR in terms of enhancing both search and recommendation simultaneously. The experimental analysis further validates that UniSAR enhances the results by successfully modeling the user transition behaviors between search and recommendation.
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spellingShingle UniSAR: Modeling User Transition Behaviors between Search and Recommendation
Shi, Teng
Si, Zihua
Xu, Jun
Zhang, Xiao
Zang, Xiaoxue
Zheng, Kai
Leng, Dewei
Niu, Yanan
Song, Yang
Information Retrieval
Nowadays, many platforms provide users with both search and recommendation services as important tools for accessing information. The phenomenon has led to a correlation between user search and recommendation behaviors, providing an opportunity to model user interests in a fine-grained way. Existing approaches either model user search and recommendation behaviors separately or overlook the different transitions between user search and recommendation behaviors. In this paper, we propose a framework named UniSAR that effectively models the different types of fine-grained behavior transitions for providing users a Unified Search And Recommendation service. Specifically, UniSAR models the user transition behaviors between search and recommendation through three steps: extraction, alignment, and fusion, which are respectively implemented by transformers equipped with pre-defined masks, contrastive learning that aligns the extracted fine-grained user transitions, and cross-attentions that fuse different transitions. To provide users with a unified service, the learned representations are fed into the downstream search and recommendation models. Joint learning on both search and recommendation data is employed to utilize the knowledge and enhance each other. Experimental results on two public datasets demonstrated the effectiveness of UniSAR in terms of enhancing both search and recommendation simultaneously. The experimental analysis further validates that UniSAR enhances the results by successfully modeling the user transition behaviors between search and recommendation.
title UniSAR: Modeling User Transition Behaviors between Search and Recommendation
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09520