Bundle MCR: Towards Conversational Bundle Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12628v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 03:28:42 GMT
• Title: Bundle MCR: Towards Conversational Bundle Recommendation
• Authors: Zhankui He, Handong Zhao, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Fan Du, Julian McAuley
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel recommendation task named Bundle MCR. We first propose a new framework to formulate Bundle MCR as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with multiple agents. Under this framework, we propose a model architecture, called Bundle Bert (Bunt) to (1) recommend items, (2) post questions and (3) manage conversations based on bundle-aware conversation states.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Bundle recommender systems recommend sets of items (e.g., pants, shirt, and shoes) to users, but they often suffer from two issues: significant interaction sparsity and a large output space. In this work, we extend multi-round conversational recommendation (MCR) to alleviate these issues. MCR, which uses a conversational paradigm to elicit user interests by asking user preferences on tags (e.g., categories or attributes) and handling user feedback across multiple rounds, is an emerging recommendation setting to acquire user feedback and narrow down the output space, but has not been explored in the context of bundle recommendation. In this work, we propose a novel recommendation task named Bundle MCR. We first propose a new framework to formulate Bundle MCR as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with multiple agents, for user modeling, consultation and feedback handling in bundle contexts. Under this framework, we propose a model architecture, called Bundle Bert (Bunt) to (1) recommend items, (2) post questions and (3) manage conversations based on bundle-aware conversation states. Moreover, to train Bunt effectively, we propose a two-stage training strategy. In an offline pre-training stage, Bunt is trained using multiple cloze tasks to mimic bundle interactions in conversations. Then in an online fine-tuning stage, Bunt agents are enhanced by user interactions. Our experiments on multiple offline datasets as well as the human evaluation show the value of extending MCR frameworks to bundle settings and the effectiveness of our Bunt design.

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