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让推荐系统的物品嵌入更懂时间,区分用户短期和长期兴趣变化。

Learning Behaviorally Grounded Item Embeddings via Personalized Temporal Contexts

论文配图:Learning Behaviorally Grounded Item Embeddings via Personalized Temporal Contexts
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  • 基于用户个性化时间节奏,动态划分行为会话或加权物品关联。
  • 在8个数据集上表现优于静态基线,最高提升达135%。
  • 适合关注用户行为时序建模的推荐系统研究者与开发者。

有效的用户建模需区分短期与长期偏好演化。尽管物品嵌入已成为推荐系统核心,但如Item2Vec等标准方法将用户历史视为无序集合(袋装物品),隐含假设分钟级与月级间隔的交互语义相关性相同。这一简化抹除了用户行为中丰富的时序结构,模糊了连贯消费会话与渐进兴趣漂移的区别。本文提出TAI2Vec(Time-Aware Item-to-Vector),一组轻量级嵌入模型,将时间邻近性直接融入表示学习过程。不同于施加全局时间约束的方法,TAI2Vec具有用户自适应性,根据个体交互节奏调整时间定义。提出两种互补策略:TAI2Vec-Disc利用个性化异常检测动态分割交互为语义会话;TAI2Vec-Cont采用连续、用户特定的衰减函数,按相对时间距离加权物品关系。在八个不同数据集上的实验表明,TAI2Vec始终生成比静态基线更准确且行为合理的表示,在超过80%的数据集上达到竞争性或更优性能,最高提升达135%。源代码已公开于https://github.com/UFSCar-LaSID/tai2vec。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Effective user modeling requires distinguishing between short-term and long-term preference evolution. While item embeddings have become a key component of recommender systems, standard approaches like Item2Vec treat user histories as unordered sets (bag-of-items), implicitly assuming that interactions separated by minutes are as semantically related as those separated by months. This simplification flattens the rich temporal structure of user behavior, obscuring the distinction between coherent consumption sessions and gradual interest drifts. In this work, we introduce TAI2Vec (Time-Aware Item-to-Vector), a family of lightweight embedding models that integrates temporal proximity directly into the representation learning process. Unlike approaches that apply global time constraints, TAI2Vec is user-adaptive, tailoring its temporal definitions to individual interaction paces. We propose two complementary strategies: TAI2Vec-Disc, which utilizes personalized anomaly detection to dynamically segment interactions into semantic sessions, and TAI2Vec-Cont, which employs continuous, user-specific decay functions to weigh item relationships based on their relative temporal distance. Experimental results across eight diverse datasets demonstrate that TAI2Vec consistently produces more accurate and behaviorally grounded representations than static baselines, achieving competitive or superior performance in over 80% of the datasets, with improvements of up to 135%. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/UFSCar-LaSID/tai2vec.

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