Why Not Together? A Multiple-Round Recommender System for Queries and Items

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Autores principales: Jin, Jiarui, Chen, Xianyu, Zhang, Weinan, Yu, Yong, Wang, Jun
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Publicado: 2024
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author Jin, Jiarui
Chen, Xianyu
Zhang, Weinan
Yu, Yong
Wang, Jun
author_facet Jin, Jiarui
Chen, Xianyu
Zhang, Weinan
Yu, Yong
Wang, Jun
contents A fundamental technique of recommender systems involves modeling user preferences, where queries and items are widely used as symbolic representations of user interests. Queries delineate user needs at an abstract level, providing a high-level description, whereas items operate on a more specific and concrete level, representing the granular facets of user preference. While practical, both query and item recommendations encounter the challenge of sparse user feedback. To this end, we propose a novel approach named Multiple-round Auto Guess-and-Update System (MAGUS) that capitalizes on the synergies between both types, allowing us to leverage both query and item information to form user interests. This integrated system introduces a recursive framework that could be applied to any recommendation method to exploit queries and items in historical interactions and to provide recommendations for both queries and items in each interaction round. Empirical results from testing 12 different recommendation methods demonstrate that integrating queries into item recommendations via MAGUS significantly enhances the efficiency, with which users can identify their preferred items during multiple-round interactions.
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spellingShingle Why Not Together? A Multiple-Round Recommender System for Queries and Items
Jin, Jiarui
Chen, Xianyu
Zhang, Weinan
Yu, Yong
Wang, Jun
Information Retrieval
A fundamental technique of recommender systems involves modeling user preferences, where queries and items are widely used as symbolic representations of user interests. Queries delineate user needs at an abstract level, providing a high-level description, whereas items operate on a more specific and concrete level, representing the granular facets of user preference. While practical, both query and item recommendations encounter the challenge of sparse user feedback. To this end, we propose a novel approach named Multiple-round Auto Guess-and-Update System (MAGUS) that capitalizes on the synergies between both types, allowing us to leverage both query and item information to form user interests. This integrated system introduces a recursive framework that could be applied to any recommendation method to exploit queries and items in historical interactions and to provide recommendations for both queries and items in each interaction round. Empirical results from testing 12 different recommendation methods demonstrate that integrating queries into item recommendations via MAGUS significantly enhances the efficiency, with which users can identify their preferred items during multiple-round interactions.
title Why Not Together? A Multiple-Round Recommender System for Queries and Items
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10787