Exploiting Session Information in BERT-based Session-aware Sequential Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10851v1
• Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:58:10 GMT
• Title: Exploiting Session Information in BERT-based Session-aware Sequential Recommendation
• Authors: Jinseok Seol, Youngrok Ko, Sang-goo Lee
• Abstract summary: In recommendation systems, utilizing the user interaction history as sequential information has resulted in great performance improvement. In many online services, user interactions are commonly grouped by sessions that presumably share preferences, which requires a different approach from ordinary sequence representation techniques. We propose three methods to improve recommendation performance by exploiting session information while minimizing additional parameters in a BERT-based sequential recommendation model.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: In recommendation systems, utilizing the user interaction history as sequential information has resulted in great performance improvement. However, in many online services, user interactions are commonly grouped by sessions that presumably share preferences, which requires a different approach from ordinary sequence representation techniques. To this end, sequence representation models with a hierarchical structure or various viewpoints have been developed but with a rather complex network structure. In this paper, we propose three methods to improve recommendation performance by exploiting session information while minimizing additional parameters in a BERT-based sequential recommendation model: using session tokens, adding session segment embeddings, and a time-aware self-attention. We demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methods through experiments on widely used recommendation datasets.

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