Benefiting from Negative yet Informative Feedback by Contrasting Opposing Sequential Patterns

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14786v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:32:16 GMT
• Title: Benefiting from Negative yet Informative Feedback by Contrasting Opposing Sequential Patterns
• Authors: Veronika Ivanova, Evgeny Frolov, Alexey Vasilev,
• Abstract summary: We consider the task of learning from both positive and negative feedback in a sequential recommendation scenario.<n>In this work, we propose to train two transformer encoders on separate positive and negative interaction sequences.<n>We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in terms of increasing true-positive metrics compared to state-of-the-art sequential recommendation methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We consider the task of learning from both positive and negative feedback in a sequential recommendation scenario, as both types of feedback are often present in user interactions. Meanwhile, conventional sequential learning models usually focus on considering and predicting positive interactions, ignoring that reducing items with negative feedback in recommendations improves user satisfaction with the service. Moreover, the negative feedback can potentially provide a useful signal for more accurate identification of true user interests. In this work, we propose to train two transformer encoders on separate positive and negative interaction sequences. We incorporate both types of feedback into the training objective of the sequential recommender using a composite loss function that includes positive and negative cross-entropy as well as a cleverly crafted contrastive term, that helps better modeling opposing patterns. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in terms of increasing true-positive metrics compared to state-of-the-art sequential recommendation methods while reducing the number of wrongly promoted negative items.

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