Towards Open-World Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation: A Model-Agnostic Contrastive Denoising Approach

  • Wujiang Xu
  • , Xuying Ning
  • , Wenfang Lin
  • , Mingming Ha
  • , Qiongxu Ma
  • , Qianqiao Liang
  • , Xuewen Tao
  • , Linxun Chen
  • , Bing Han
  • , Minnan Luo

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Abstract

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to address the data spCH). Recently, some SR approaches have utilized auxiliary behaviors to complement the information for long-tailed users. However, these methods cannot deliver promising performance in CDSR, as they overlook the semantic gap between target and auxiliary behaviors, as well as user interest deviation across domains (2nd CH). In this paper, we propose a model-agnostic contrastive denoising (MACD) approach towards open-world CDSR. We introduce auxiliary behavior sequence information (i.e., clicks) into CDSR methods to explore potential interests. Specifically, we design a denoising interest-aware network combined with a contrastive information regularizer to remove inherent noise from auxiliary behaviors and exploit multi-interest from users. Extensive offline experiments on public industry datasets and a standard A/B test on a large-scale financial platform with millions of users both confirm the remarkable performance of our model in open-world CDSR scenarios. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/WujiangXu/MACD.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2024, Proceedings
EditorsAlbert Bifet, Jesse Davis, Tomas Krilavičius, Meelis Kull, Eirini Ntoutsi, Indrė Žliobaitė
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages161-179
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783031703409
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
EventEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2024 - Vilnius, Lithuania
Duration: 9 Sep 202413 Sep 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14941 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2024
Country/TerritoryLithuania
CityVilnius
Period9/09/2413/09/24

Keywords

  • Contrastive Learning
  • Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
  • Open-world Recommendation
  • Sequential Recommendation

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