A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Explainable Recommendation

• Published in: Proceedings (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) pp. 587 - 596
• Main Authors: Wang, Xiting, Chen, Yiru, Yang, Jie, Wu, Le, Wu, Zhengtao, Xie, Xing
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.11.2018
• Subjects: attention networks; Collaboration; Explainable recommendation; Neural networks; personalized explanation; Predictive models; Quality control; Recommender systems; Reinforcement learning; Transforms

Explainable recommendation, which provides explanations about why an item is recommended, has attracted increasing attention due to its ability in helping users make better decisions and increasing users' trust in the system. Existing explainable recommendation methods either ignore the working...