Title
Rank and Rate: Multi-task Learning for Recommender Systems.
Abstract
The two main tasks in the Recommender Systems domain are the ranking and rating prediction tasks. The rating prediction task aims at predicting to what extent a user would like any given item, which would enable to recommend the items with the highest predicted scores. The ranking task on the other hand directly aims at recommending the most valuable items for the user. Several previous approaches proposed learning user and item representations to optimize both tasks simultaneously in a multi-task framework. In this work we propose a novel multi-task framework that exploits the fact that a user does a two-phase decision process - first decides to interact with an item (ranking task) and only afterward to rate it (rating prediction task). We evaluated our framework on two benchmark datasets, on two different configurations and showed its superiority over state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3240323.3240406
RecSys '18: Twelfth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Vancouver British Columbia Canada October, 2018
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Recommender Systems, Collaborative Filtering
Conference
abs/1807.11698
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5901-6
1
0.36
References 
Authors
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guy Hadash110.36
Oren Sar Shalom2207.74
Rita Osadchy310.36