Explainable Recommender with Geometric Information Bottleneck

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05331v2
• Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 22:02:25 GMT
• Title: Explainable Recommender with Geometric Information Bottleneck
• Authors: Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Menghan Wang, Kun Zhang, Yulan He
• Abstract summary: We propose to incorporate a geometric prior learnt from user-item interactions into a variational network. Latent factors from an individual user-item pair can be used for both recommendation and explanation generation. Experimental results on three e-commerce datasets show that our model significantly improves the interpretability of a variational recommender.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Explainable recommender systems can explain their recommendation decisions, enhancing user trust in the systems. Most explainable recommender systems either rely on human-annotated rationales to train models for explanation generation or leverage the attention mechanism to extract important text spans from reviews as explanations. The extracted rationales are often confined to an individual review and may fail to identify the implicit features beyond the review text. To avoid the expensive human annotation process and to generate explanations beyond individual reviews, we propose to incorporate a geometric prior learnt from user-item interactions into a variational network which infers latent factors from user-item reviews. The latent factors from an individual user-item pair can be used for both recommendation and explanation generation, which naturally inherit the global characteristics encoded in the prior knowledge. Experimental results on three e-commerce datasets show that our model significantly improves the interpretability of a variational recommender using the Wasserstein distance while achieving performance comparable to existing content-based recommender systems in terms of recommendation behaviours.

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