Title
MetaSelector: Meta-Learning for Recommendation with User-Level Adaptive Model Selection
Abstract
Recommender systems often face heterogeneous datasets containing highly personalized historical data of users, where no single model could give the best recommendation for every user. We observe this ubiquitous phenomenon on both public and private datasets and address the model selection problem in pursuit of optimizing the quality of recommendation for each user. We propose a meta-learning framework to facilitate user-level adaptive model selection in recommender systems. In this framework, a collection of recommenders is trained with data from all users, on top of which a model selector is trained via meta-learning to select the best single model for each user with the user-specific historical data. We conduct extensive experiments on two public datasets and a real-world production dataset, demonstrating that our proposed framework achieves improvements over single model baselines and sample-level model selector in terms of AUC and LogLoss. In particular, the improvements may lead to huge profit gain when deployed in online recommender systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3366423.3379999
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020 Taipei Taiwan April, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
recommender systems, meta-learning, model selection
Conference
978-1-4503-7023-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luo Mi111.03
Fei Chen22512.25
Cheng Pengxiang310.35
Zhenhua Dong4919.03
Xiuqiang He531239.21
Jiashi Feng62165140.81
Zhenguo Li758141.17