SLSREC: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Adaptive Fusion of Long- and Short-Term User Interests

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Main Authors: Zhou, Wei, Shen, Yue, Ji, Junkai, Feng, Yinglan, Tang, Xing, He, Xiuqiang, Feng, Liang, Zhu, Zexuan
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author Zhou, Wei
Shen, Yue
Ji, Junkai
Feng, Yinglan
Tang, Xing
He, Xiuqiang
Feng, Liang
Zhu, Zexuan
author_facet Zhou, Wei
Shen, Yue
Ji, Junkai
Feng, Yinglan
Tang, Xing
He, Xiuqiang
Feng, Liang
Zhu, Zexuan
contents User interests typically encompass both long-term preferences and short-term intentions, reflecting the dynamic nature of user behaviors across different timeframes. The uneven temporal distribution of user interactions highlights the evolving patterns of interests, making it challenging to accurately capture shifts in interests using comprehensive historical behaviors. To address this, we propose SLSRec, a novel Session-based model with the fusion of Long- and Short-term Recommendations that effectively captures the temporal dynamics of user interests by segmenting historical behaviors over time. Unlike conventional models that combine long- and short-term user interests into a single representation, compromising recommendation accuracy, SLSRec utilizes a self-supervised learning framework to disentangle these two types of interests. A contrastive learning strategy is introduced to ensure accurate calibration of long- and short-term interest representations. Additionally, an attention-based fusion network is designed to adaptively aggregate interest representations, optimizing their integration to enhance recommendation performance. Extensive experiments on three public benchmark datasets demonstrate that SLSRec consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models while exhibiting superior robustness across various scenarios.We will release all source code upon acceptance.
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spellingShingle SLSREC: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Adaptive Fusion of Long- and Short-Term User Interests
Zhou, Wei
Shen, Yue
Ji, Junkai
Feng, Yinglan
Tang, Xing
He, Xiuqiang
Feng, Liang
Zhu, Zexuan
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
User interests typically encompass both long-term preferences and short-term intentions, reflecting the dynamic nature of user behaviors across different timeframes. The uneven temporal distribution of user interactions highlights the evolving patterns of interests, making it challenging to accurately capture shifts in interests using comprehensive historical behaviors. To address this, we propose SLSRec, a novel Session-based model with the fusion of Long- and Short-term Recommendations that effectively captures the temporal dynamics of user interests by segmenting historical behaviors over time. Unlike conventional models that combine long- and short-term user interests into a single representation, compromising recommendation accuracy, SLSRec utilizes a self-supervised learning framework to disentangle these two types of interests. A contrastive learning strategy is introduced to ensure accurate calibration of long- and short-term interest representations. Additionally, an attention-based fusion network is designed to adaptively aggregate interest representations, optimizing their integration to enhance recommendation performance. Extensive experiments on three public benchmark datasets demonstrate that SLSRec consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models while exhibiting superior robustness across various scenarios.We will release all source code upon acceptance.
title SLSREC: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Adaptive Fusion of Long- and Short-Term User Interests
topic Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04530