Enhancing Sequential Music Recommendation with Personalized Popularity Awareness

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04329v1
• Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:05:12 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Sequential Music Recommendation with Personalized Popularity Awareness
• Authors: Davide Abbattista, Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia, Craig Macdonald, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Petrov,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces a novel approach that incorporates personalized popularity information into sequential recommendation. Experimental results demonstrate that a Personalized Most Popular recommender outperforms existing state-of-the-art models.
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• Abstract: In the realm of music recommendation, sequential recommender systems have shown promise in capturing the dynamic nature of music consumption. Nevertheless, traditional Transformer-based models, such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, while effective, encounter challenges due to the unique characteristics of music listening habits. In fact, existing models struggle to create a coherent listening experience due to rapidly evolving preferences. Moreover, music consumption is characterized by a prevalence of repeated listening, i.e., users frequently return to their favourite tracks, an important signal that could be framed as individual or personalized popularity. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing a novel approach that incorporates personalized popularity information into sequential recommendation. By combining user-item popularity scores with model-generated scores, our method effectively balances the exploration of new music with the satisfaction of user preferences. Experimental results demonstrate that a Personalized Most Popular recommender, a method solely based on user-specific popularity, outperforms existing state-of-the-art models. Furthermore, augmenting Transformer-based models with personalized popularity awareness yields superior performance, showing improvements ranging from 25.2% to 69.8%. The code for this paper is available at https://github.com/sisinflab/personalized-popularity-awareness.

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