A Plug-and-play Model-agnostic Embedding Enhancement Approach for Explainable Recommendation
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| author | Mi, Yunqi Yan, Boyang Zhao, Guoshuai Shen, Jialie Qian, Xueming |
| author_facet | Mi, Yunqi Yan, Boyang Zhao, Guoshuai Shen, Jialie Qian, Xueming |
| contents | Existing multimedia recommender systems provide users with suggestions of media by evaluating the similarities, such as games and movies. To enhance the semantics and explainability of embeddings, it is a consensus to apply additional information (e.g., interactions, contexts, popularity). However, without systematic consideration of representativeness and value, the utility and explainability of embedding drops drastically. Hence, we introduce RVRec, a plug-and-play model-agnostic embedding enhancement approach that can improve both personality and explainability of existing systems. Specifically, we propose a probability-based embedding optimization method that uses a contrastive loss based on negative 2-Wasserstein distance to learn to enhance the representativeness of the embeddings. In addtion, we introduce a reweighing method based on multivariate Shapley values strategy to evaluate and explore the value of interactions and embeddings. Extensive experiments on multiple backbone recommenders and real-world datasets show that RVRec can improve the personalization and explainability of existing recommenders, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines. |
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| spellingShingle | A Plug-and-play Model-agnostic Embedding Enhancement Approach for Explainable Recommendation Mi, Yunqi Yan, Boyang Zhao, Guoshuai Shen, Jialie Qian, Xueming Information Retrieval Existing multimedia recommender systems provide users with suggestions of media by evaluating the similarities, such as games and movies. To enhance the semantics and explainability of embeddings, it is a consensus to apply additional information (e.g., interactions, contexts, popularity). However, without systematic consideration of representativeness and value, the utility and explainability of embedding drops drastically. Hence, we introduce RVRec, a plug-and-play model-agnostic embedding enhancement approach that can improve both personality and explainability of existing systems. Specifically, we propose a probability-based embedding optimization method that uses a contrastive loss based on negative 2-Wasserstein distance to learn to enhance the representativeness of the embeddings. In addtion, we introduce a reweighing method based on multivariate Shapley values strategy to evaluate and explore the value of interactions and embeddings. Extensive experiments on multiple backbone recommenders and real-world datasets show that RVRec can improve the personalization and explainability of existing recommenders, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines. |
| title | A Plug-and-play Model-agnostic Embedding Enhancement Approach for Explainable Recommendation |
| topic | Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03130 |