Sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning

Sequential recommendation predicts next items for users based on their historical interactions. Existing methods capture long-term dependencies but struggle to recommend precisely for users with short interaction sequences, especially for long-tail users. Therefore, a sequential recommendation algor...

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Main Authors: REN Yonggong, ZHOU Pinglei, ZHANG Zhipeng
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Published: Editorial Department of Journal on Communications 2024-06-01
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Online Access:http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2024107/
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description Sequential recommendation predicts next items for users based on their historical interactions. Existing methods capture long-term dependencies but struggle to recommend precisely for users with short interaction sequences, especially for long-tail users. Therefore, a sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning was proposed. Firstly, semantic item similarity was introduced by leveraging relationships between entities in the knowledge graph to extract correlated items from original sequences. Secondly, two sequence augmentation operators were proposed based on different contrastive learning views, addressing the problem of insufficient training for long-tail user sequences by augmenting self-supervised signals. Finally, precise sequence recommendations were provided for long-tail users by utilizing the joint training of shared network parameters between contrastive self-supervised tasks and the recommendation task. Experimental results on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in improving performance for long-tail users.
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spelling doaj-art-220d7bf0904d411a91eb9aa3acb16f542025-01-14T07:24:32ZzhoEditorial Department of Journal on CommunicationsTongxin xuebao1000-436X2024-06-014521022263977233Sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learningREN YonggongZHOU PingleiZHANG ZhipengSequential recommendation predicts next items for users based on their historical interactions. Existing methods capture long-term dependencies but struggle to recommend precisely for users with short interaction sequences, especially for long-tail users. Therefore, a sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning was proposed. Firstly, semantic item similarity was introduced by leveraging relationships between entities in the knowledge graph to extract correlated items from original sequences. Secondly, two sequence augmentation operators were proposed based on different contrastive learning views, addressing the problem of insufficient training for long-tail user sequences by augmenting self-supervised signals. Finally, precise sequence recommendations were provided for long-tail users by utilizing the joint training of shared network parameters between contrastive self-supervised tasks and the recommendation task. Experimental results on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in improving performance for long-tail users.http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2024107/sequential recommendationlong-tail userknowledge graphcontrastive learning
spellingShingle REN Yonggong
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ZHANG Zhipeng
Sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning
Tongxin xuebao
sequential recommendation
long-tail user
knowledge graph
contrastive learning
title Sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning
title_full Sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning
title_fullStr Sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning
title_full_unstemmed Sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning
title_short Sequential recommendation algorithm for long-tail users based on knowledge-enhanced contrastive learning
title_sort sequential recommendation algorithm for long tail users based on knowledge enhanced contrastive learning
topic sequential recommendation
long-tail user
knowledge graph
contrastive learning
url http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2024107/
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