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Top-aware reinforcement learning based recommendation

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Feng Liu
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Ruiming Tang
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Huifeng Guo
李旭涛 (Xutao Li)
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Yunming Ye *
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Xiuqiang He
DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2020.07.057delete
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Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques have recently been introduced to recommender systems. Most existing research works focus on designing policy and learning algorithms of the recommender agent but seldom care about the top-aware issue, i.e., the performance on the top positions is not satisfying, which is crucial for real applications. To address the drawback, we propose a Supervised deep Reinforcement learning Recommendation framework named as SRR. Within this framework, we utilize a supervised learning (SL) model to partially guide the learning of recommendation policy, where the supervision signal and RL signal are jointly employed and updated in a complementary fashion. We empirically find that suitable weak supervision helps to balance the immediate reward and the long-term reward, which nicely addresses the top-aware issue in RL based recommendation. Moreover, we perform a further investigation on how different supervision signals impact on recommendation policy. Extensive experiments are carried out on two real-world datasets under both the offline and simulated online evaluation settings, and the results demonstrate that the proposed methods indeed resolve the top-aware issue without much performance sacrifice in the long-run, compared with the state-of-the-art methods. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Recommendation
Top-aware
Reinforcement learning
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