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Adaptive self-supervised learning for sequential recommendation

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Xiujuan Sun
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Fuzhen Sun *
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Zhiwei Zhang
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李鹏程 (Pengcheng Li)
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Shaoqing Wang
DOI:10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106570delete
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Sequential recommendation typically utilizes deep neural networks to mine rich information in interaction sequences. However, existing methods often face the issue of insufficient interaction data. To alleviate the sparsity issue, self-supervised learning is introduced into sequential recommendation. Despite its effectiveness, we argue that current self-supervised learning-based (i.e., SSL-based) sequential recommendation models have the following limitations: (1) using only a single self-supervised learning method, either contrastive self- supervised learning or generative self-supervised learning. (2) employing a simple data augmentation strategy in either the graph structure domain or the node feature domain. We believe that they have not fully utilized the capabilities of both self-supervised methods and have not sufficiently explored the advantages of combining graph augmentation schemes. As a result, they often fail to learn better item representations. In light of this, we propose a novel multi-task sequential recommendation framework named Adaptive Self-supervised Learning for sequential Recommendation ( ASLRec ). Specifically, our framework combines contrastive and generative self-supervised learning methods adaptively, simultaneously applying different perturbations at both the graph topology and node feature levels. This approach constructs diverse augmented graph views and employs multiple loss functions (including contrastive loss, generative loss, mask loss, and prediction loss) for joint training. By encompassing the capabilities of various methods, our model learns item representations across different augmented graph views to achieve better performance and effectively mitigate interaction noise and sparsity. In addition, we add a small proportion of random uniform noise to item representations, making the item representations more uniform and mitigating the inherent popularity bias in interaction records. We conduct extensive experiments on three publicly available benchmark datasets to evaluate our model. The results demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to 14 other competitive methods: the hit rate (HR) improved by over 14.39%, and the normalized discounted cumulative gain (NDCG) increased by over 18.67%.
Keywords:
Sequential recommendation
Self-supervised learning
Adaptive data augmentation

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Shandong University of Technology
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