Title
Directional and Explainable Serendipity Recommendation
Abstract
Serendipity recommendation has attracted more and more attention in recent years; it is committed to providing recommendations which could not only cater to users’ demands but also broaden their horizons. However, existing approaches usually measure user-item relevance with a scalar instead of a vector, ignoring user preference direction, which increases the risk of unrelated recommendations. In addition, reasonable explanations increase users’ trust and acceptance, but there is no work to provide explanations for serendipitous recommendations. To address these limitations, we propose a Directional and Explainable Serendipity Recommendation method named DESR. Specifically, we extract users’ long-term preferences with an unsupervised method based on GMM (Gaussian Mixture Model) and capture their short-term demands with the capsule network at first. Then, we propose the serendipity vector to combine long-term preferences with short-term demands and generate directionally serendipitous recommendations with it. Finally, a back-routing scheme is exploited to offer explanations. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets show that DESR could effectively improve the serendipity and explainability, and give impetus to the diversity, compared with existing serendipity-based methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3366423.3380100
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020 Taipei Taiwan April, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Recommendation, Serendipity, User Preference Direction, Explainability
Conference
978-1-4503-7023-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xueqi Li100.68
Wenjun Jiang235624.25
Weiguang Chen332.45
Jie Wu48307592.07
Guojun Wang51740144.41
Kenli Li61389124.28