Title
Improving Sequential Recommendation with Attribute-Augmented Graph Neural Networks
Abstract
Many practical recommender systems provide item recommendation for different users only via mining user-item interactions but totally ignoring the rich attribute information of items that users interact with. In this paper, we propose an attribute-augmented graph neural network model named Murzim. Murzim takes as input the graphs constructed from the user-item interaction sequences and corresponding item attribute sequences. By combining the GNNs with node aggregation and an attention network, Murzim can capture user preference patterns, generate embeddings for user-item interaction sequences, and then generate recommendations through next-item prediction. We conduct extensive experiments on multiple datasets. Experimental results show that Murzim outperforms several state-of-the-art methods in terms of recall and MRR, which illustrates that Murzim can make use of item attribute information to produce better recommendations. At present, Murzim has been deployed in MX Player, one of India's largest streaming platforms, and is recommending videos for tens of thousands of users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-75765-6_30
ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING, PAKDD 2021, PT II
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Recommender system, Deep learning, Graph neural network, Sequential recommendation
Conference
12713
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinzhou Dong100.68
Beihong Jin224.44
Wei Zhuo301.35
Beibei Li401.69
Taofeng Xue501.01