Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation

• Published in: Proceedings (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) pp. 197 - 206
• Main Authors: Kang, Wang-Cheng, McAuley, Julian
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Adaptation models; Collaborative Filtering; Context modeling; Markov processes; Predictive models; Recommender systems; Recurrent neural networks; Sequential Recommendation; Task analysis
• ISSN: 2374-8486
• DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2018.00035

Sequential dynamics are a key feature of many modern recommender systems, which seek to capture the 'context' of users' activities on the basis of actions they have performed recently. To capture such patterns, two approaches have proliferated: Markov Chains (MCs) and Recurrent Neural...