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Poster
Towards Open-World Recommendation: An Inductive Model-based Collaborative Filtering Approach
Qitian Wu · Hengrui Zhang · Xiaofeng Gao · Junchi Yan · Hongyuan Zha

Thu Jul 22 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PDT) @
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Recommendation models can effectively estimate underlying user interests and predict one's future behaviors by factorizing an observed user-item rating matrix into products of two sets of latent factors. However, the user-specific embedding factors can only be learned in a transductive way, making it difficult to handle new users on-the-fly. In this paper, we propose an inductive collaborative filtering framework that contains two representation models. The first model follows conventional matrix factorization which factorizes a group of key users' rating matrix to obtain meta latents. The second model resorts to attention-based structure learning that estimates hidden relations from query to key users and learns to leverage meta latents to inductively compute embeddings for query users via neural message passing. Our model enables inductive representation learning for users and meanwhile guarantees equivalent representation capacity as matrix factorization. Experiments demonstrate that our model achieves promising results for recommendation on few-shot users with limited training ratings and new unseen users which are commonly encountered in open-world recommender systems.

Keywords: Recommender Systems

Author Information

Qitian Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Hengrui Zhang (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Xiaofeng Gao (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Junchi Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Hongyuan Zha (Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

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