Explainable Hyperbolic Temporal Point Process for User-Item Interaction Sequence Generation

作者：Yuchen Zhou, Yanan Cao, Yanmin Shang, Chuan Zhou, Shirui Pan, Zheng Lin, Qian Li · 发表于：ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1145/3570501 · 被引用次数：12 · 研究领域：Recommender Systems and Techniques、Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques、3D Shape Modeling and Analysis

Recommender systems which captures dynamic user interest based on time-ordered user-item interactions plays a critical role in the real-world. Although existing deep learning-based recommendation systems show good performances, these methods have two main drawbacks. Firstly, user interest is the consequence of the coaction of many factors. However, existing methods do not fully explore potential influence factors and ignore the user-item interaction formation process. The coarse-grained modeling patterns cannot accurately reflect complex user interest and leads to suboptimal recommendation results. Furthermore, these methods are implicit and largely operate in a black-box fashion. It is difficult to interpret their modeling processes and recommendation results. Secondly, recommendation datasets usually exhibit scale-free distributions and some existing recommender systems take advantage of hyperbolic space to match the data distribution. But they ignore that the operations in hyperbolic space are more complex than that in Euclidean space which further increases the difficulty of model interpretation. To tackle the above shortcomings, we propose an E xplainable H yperbolic T emporal P oint P rocess for User-Item Interaction Sequence Generation (EHTPP) . Specifically, EHTPP regards each user-item interaction as an event in hyperbolic space and employs a temporal point process framework to model the probability of event occurrence. Considering that the complexity of user interes...