Debiasing the Cloze Task in Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09210v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:44:25 GMT
• Title: Debiasing the Cloze Task in Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Transformers
• Authors: Khalil Damak, Sami Khenissi, Olfa Nasraoui
• Abstract summary: We argue that Inverse Propensity Scoring (IPS) does not extend to sequential recommendation because it fails to account for the temporal nature of the problem. We then propose a novel propensity scoring mechanism, which can theoretically debias the Cloze task in sequential recommendation.
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• Abstract: Bidirectional Transformer architectures are state-of-the-art sequential recommendation models that use a bi-directional representation capacity based on the Cloze task, a.k.a. Masked Language Modeling. The latter aims to predict randomly masked items within the sequence. Because they assume that the true interacted item is the most relevant one, an exposure bias results, where non-interacted items with low exposure propensities are assumed to be irrelevant. The most common approach to mitigating exposure bias in recommendation has been Inverse Propensity Scoring (IPS), which consists of down-weighting the interacted predictions in the loss function in proportion to their propensities of exposure, yielding a theoretically unbiased learning. In this work, we argue and prove that IPS does not extend to sequential recommendation because it fails to account for the temporal nature of the problem. We then propose a novel propensity scoring mechanism, which can theoretically debias the Cloze task in sequential recommendation. Finally we empirically demonstrate the debiasing capabilities of our proposed approach and its robustness to the severity of exposure bias.

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