NxtPost: User to Post Recommendations in Facebook Groups

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03645v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 04:59:56 GMT
• Title: NxtPost: User to Post Recommendations in Facebook Groups
• Authors: Kaushik Rangadurai, Yiqun Liu, Siddarth Malreddy, Xiaoyi Liu, Piyush Maheshwari, Vishwanath Sangale, Fedor Borisyuk
• Abstract summary: We present NxtPost, a user-to-post sequential recommender system for Facebook Groups. Inspired by recent advances in NLP, we have adapted a Transformer-based model to the domain of sequential recommendation.
• Score: 12.69028536073416
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we present NxtPost, a deployed user-to-post content-based sequential recommender system for Facebook Groups. Inspired by recent advances in NLP, we have adapted a Transformer-based model to the domain of sequential recommendation. We explore causal masked multi-head attention that optimizes both short and long-term user interests. From a user's past activities validated by defined safety process, NxtPost seeks to learn a representation for the user's dynamic content preference and to predict the next post user may be interested in. In contrast to previous Transformer-based methods, we do not assume that the recommendable posts have a fixed corpus. Accordingly, we use an external item/token embedding to extend a sequence-based approach to a large vocabulary. We achieve 49% abs. improvement in offline evaluation. As a result of NxtPost deployment, 0.6% more users are meeting new people, engaging with the community, sharing knowledge and getting support. The paper shares our experience in developing a personalized sequential recommender system, lessons deploying the model for cold start users, how to deal with freshness, and tuning strategies to reach higher efficiency in online A/B experiments.

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