RepeatNet: A Repeat Aware Neural Recommendation Machine for Session-Based Recommendation

Authors

  • Pengjie Ren University of Amsterdam
  • Zhumin Chen Shandong University
  • Jing Li Shandong University
  • Zhaochun Ren JD.com
  • Jun Ma Shandong University
  • Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33014806

Abstract

Recurrent neural networks for session-based recommendation have attracted a lot of attention recently because of their promising performance. repeat consumption is a common phenomenon in many recommendation scenarios (e.g., e-commerce, music, and TV program recommendations), where the same item is re-consumed repeatedly over time. However, no previous studies have emphasized repeat consumption with neural networks. An effective neural approach is needed to decide when to perform repeat recommendation. In this paper, we incorporate a repeat-explore mechanism into neural networks and propose a new model, called RepeatNet, with an encoder-decoder structure. RepeatNet integrates a regular neural recommendation approach in the decoder with a new repeat recommendation mechanism that can choose items from a user’s history and recommends them at the right time. We report on extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets. RepeatNet outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on all three datasets in terms of MRR and Recall. Furthermore, as the dataset size and the repeat ratio increase, the improvements of RepeatNet over the baselines also increase, which demonstrates its advantage in handling repeat recommendation scenarios.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Ren, P., Chen, Z., Li, J., Ren, Z., Ma, J., & de Rijke, M. (2019). RepeatNet: A Repeat Aware Neural Recommendation Machine for Session-Based Recommendation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 4806-4813. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33014806

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AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning