Learning multi-faceted prototypical user interests

• Main Authors: TRAN, Nhu Thuat, LAUW, Hady W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: multi-faceted representation; user interests; item characteristics; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9281; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10281/viewcontent/5185_Learning_Multi_Faceted_Pr.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We seek to uncover the latent interest units from behavioral data to better learn user preferences under the VAE framework. Existing practices tend to ignore the multiple facets of item characteristics, which may not capture it at appropriate granularity. Moreover, current studies equate the granula...