Self Contrastive Learning for Session-based Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01266v2
• Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:01:04 GMT
• Title: Self Contrastive Learning for Session-based Recommendation
• Authors: Zhengxiang Shi, Xi Wang, Aldo Lipani
• Abstract summary: Self-Contrastive Learning (SCL) is formulated as an objective function that directly promotes a uniform distribution among item representations. SCL consistently improves the performance of state-of-the-art models with statistical significance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Session-based recommendation, which aims to predict the next item of users' interest as per an existing sequence interaction of items, has attracted growing applications of Contrastive Learning (CL) with improved user and item representations. However, these contrastive objectives: (1) serve a similar role as the cross-entropy loss while ignoring the item representation space optimisation; and (2) commonly require complicated modelling, including complex positive/negative sample constructions and extra data augmentation. In this work, we introduce Self-Contrastive Learning (SCL), which simplifies the application of CL and enhances the performance of state-of-the-art CL-based recommendation techniques. Specifically, SCL is formulated as an objective function that directly promotes a uniform distribution among item representations and efficiently replaces all the existing contrastive objective components of state-of-the-art models. Unlike previous works, SCL eliminates the need for any positive/negative sample construction or data augmentation, leading to enhanced interpretability of the item representation space and facilitating its extensibility to existing recommender systems. Through experiments on three benchmark datasets, we demonstrate that SCL consistently improves the performance of state-of-the-art models with statistical significance. Notably, our experiments show that SCL improves the performance of two best-performing models by 8.2% and 9.5% in P@10 (Precision) and 9.9% and 11.2% in MRR@10 (Mean Reciprocal Rank) on average across different benchmarks. Additionally, our analysis elucidates the improvement in terms of alignment and uniformity of representations, as well as the effectiveness of SCL with a low computational cost.

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