Hi-Fi Ark: Deep User Representation via High-Fidelity Archive Network

Hi-Fi Ark: Deep User Representation via High-Fidelity Archive Network

Zheng Liu, Yu Xing, Fangzhao Wu, Mingxiao An, Xing Xie

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 3059-3065. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/424

Deep learning techniques have been widely applied to modern recommendation systems, bringing in flexible and effective ways of user representation. Conventionally, user representations are generated purely in the offline stage. Without referencing to the specific candidate item for recommendation, it is difficult to fully capture user preference from the perspective of interest. More recent algorithms tend to generate user representation at runtime, where user's historical behaviors are attentively summarized w.r.t. the presented candidate item. In spite of the improved efficacy, it is too expensive for many real-world scenarios because of the repetitive access to user's entire history. In this work, a novel user representation framework, Hi-Fi Ark, is proposed. With Hi-Fi Ark, user history is summarized into highly compact and complementary vectors in the offline stage, known as archives. Meanwhile, user preference towards a specific candidate item can be precisely captured via the attentive aggregation of such archives. As a result, both deployment feasibility and superior recommendation efficacy are achieved by Hi-Fi Ark. The effectiveness of Hi-Fi Ark is empirically validated on three real-world datasets, where remarkable and consistent improvements are made over a variety of well-recognized baseline methods.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Data Mining
Humans and AI: Personalization and User Modeling
Machine Learning: Recommender Systems