Augmenting Sequential Recommendation with Balanced Relevance and Diversity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08300v3
• Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:17:08 GMT
• Title: Augmenting Sequential Recommendation with Balanced Relevance and Diversity
• Authors: Yizhou Dang, Jiahui Zhang, Yuting Liu, Enneng Yang, Yuliang Liang, Guibing Guo, Jianzhe Zhao, Xingwei Wang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Balanced Data Augmentation for Sequential Recommendation (BASRec) to generate data that balance relevance and diversity.<n>BASRec consists of two modules: Single-sequence Augmentation and Cross-sequence Augmentation.<n>We demonstrate that BASRec generates data with a better balance between relevance and diversity than existing methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: By generating new yet effective data, data augmentation has become a promising method to mitigate the data sparsity problem in sequential recommendation. Existing works focus on augmenting the original data but rarely explore the issue of imbalanced relevance and diversity for augmented data, leading to semantic drift problems or limited performance improvements. In this paper, we propose a novel Balanced data Augmentation Plugin for Sequential Recommendation (BASRec) to generate data that balance relevance and diversity. BASRec consists of two modules: Single-sequence Augmentation and Cross-sequence Augmentation. The former leverages the randomness of the heuristic operators to generate diverse sequences for a single user, after which the diverse and the original sequences are fused at the representation level to obtain relevance. Further, we devise a reweighting strategy to enable the model to learn the preferences based on the two properties adaptively. The Cross-sequence Augmentation performs nonlinear mixing between different sequence representations from two directions. It produces virtual sequence representations that are diverse enough but retain the vital semantics of the original sequences. These two modules enhance the model to discover fine-grained preferences knowledge from single-user and cross-user perspectives. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of BASRec. The average improvement is up to 72.0% on GRU4Rec, 33.8% on SASRec, and 68.5% on FMLP-Rec. We demonstrate that BASRec generates data with a better balance between relevance and diversity than existing methods. The source code is available at https://github.com/KingGugu/BASRec.

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