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The Minority Matters: A Diversity-Promoting Collaborative Metric Learning Algorithm
Shilong Bao · Qianqian Xu · Zhiyong Yang · Yuan He · Xiaochun Cao · Qingming Huang

Tue Nov 29 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Hall J #222
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Collaborative Metric Learning (CML) has recently emerged as a popular method in recommendation systems (RS), closing the gap between metric learning and Collaborative Filtering. Following the convention of RS, existing methods exploit unique user representation in their model design. This paper focuses on a challenging scenario where a user has multiple categories of interests. Under this setting, we argue that the unique user representation might induce preference bias, especially when the item category distribution is imbalanced. To address this issue, we propose a novel method called Diversity-Promoting Collaborative Metric Learning (DPCML), with the hope of considering the commonly ignored minority interest of the user. The key idea behind DPCML is to include a multiple set of representations for each user in the system. Based on this embedding paradigm, user preference toward an item is aggregated from different embeddings by taking the minimum item-user distance among the user embedding set. Furthermore, we observe that the diversity of the embeddings for the same user also plays an essential role in the model. To this end, we propose a diversity control regularization term to accommodate the multi-vector representation strategy better. Theoretically, we show that DPCML could generalize well to unseen test data by tackling the challenge of the annoying operation that comes from the minimum value. Experiments over a range of benchmark datasets speak to the efficacy of DPCML.

Keywords: machine learning · recommendation system · Collaborative Metric Learning
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Author Information

Shilong Bao (University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Qianqian Xu (Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Zhiyong Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Yuan He (Alibaba Group)
Xiaochun Cao (SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY)
Qingming Huang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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