Dynamic Time-aware Continual User Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16501v1
• Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:23:59 GMT
• Title: Dynamic Time-aware Continual User Representation Learning
• Authors: Seungyoon Choi, Sein Kim, Hongseok Kang, Wonjoong Kim, Chanyoung Park,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a practical evaluation scenario on which CL-based universal user representation learning approaches should be evaluated.<n>We propose a novel framework Dynamic Time-aware continual user representation learner, named DITTO.
• Score: 16.676154241985255
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Traditional user modeling (UM) approaches have primarily focused on designing models for a single specific task, but they face limitations in generalization and adaptability across various tasks. Recognizing these challenges, recent studies have shifted towards continual learning (CL)-based universal user representation learning aiming to develop a single model capable of handling multiple tasks. Despite advancements, existing methods are in fact evaluated under an unrealistic scenario that does not consider the passage of time as tasks progress, which overlooks newly emerged items that may change the item distribution of previous tasks. In this paper, we introduce a practical evaluation scenario on which CL-based universal user representation learning approaches should be evaluated, which takes into account the passage of time as tasks progress. Then, we propose a novel framework Dynamic Time-aware continual user representation learner, named DITTO, designed to alleviate catastrophic forgetting despite continuous shifts in item distribution, while also allowing the knowledge acquired from previous tasks to adapt to the current shifted item distribution. Through our extensive experiments, we demonstrate the superiority of DITTO over state-of-the-art methods under a practical evaluation scenario. Our source code is available at https://github.com/seungyoon-Choi/DITTO_official.

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