A unified hierarchical attention framework for sequential recommendation by fusing long and short-term preferences

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Highlights:

• A novel unified framework for sequential recommendation is proposed.

• Multi-head self-attention captures both the general and dynamic user preferences.

• Hierarchical attention obtains the item–item interaction features in higher order.

• A joint learning mechanism fuses the long and short-term features effectively.

• The proposed model achieves significant improvement over other related method.

摘要

•A novel unified framework for sequential recommendation is proposed.•Multi-head self-attention captures both the general and dynamic user preferences.•Hierarchical attention obtains the item–item interaction features in higher order.•A joint learning mechanism fuses the long and short-term features effectively.•The proposed model achieves significant improvement over other related method.

论文关键词:Behavior sequences,Feature interactions,Hierarchical attention,Long and short-term preferences,Sequential recommendation

论文评审过程:Received 2 August 2021, Revised 21 January 2022, Accepted 28 March 2022, Available online 8 April 2022, Version of Record 12 April 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117102