FineRec:Exploring Fine-grained Sequential Recommendation
<|reference_start|>FineRec:Exploring Fine-grained Sequential Recommendation: Sequential recommendation is dedicated to offering items of interest for users based on their history behaviors. The attribute-opinion pairs, expressed by users in their reviews for items, provide the potentials to capture user preferences and item characteristics at a fine-grained level. To this end, we propose a novel framework FineRec that explores the attribute-opinion pairs of reviews to finely handle sequential recommendation. Specifically, we utilize a large language model to extract attribute-opinion pairs from reviews. For each attribute, a unique attribute-specific user-opinion-item graph is created, where corresponding opinions serve as the edges linking heterogeneous user and item nodes. To tackle the diversity of opinions, we devise a diversity-aware convolution operation to aggregate information within the graphs, enabling attribute-specific user and item representation learning. Ultimately, we present an interaction-driven fusion mechanism to integrate attribute-specific user/item representations across all attributes for generating recommendations. Extensive experiments conducted on several realworld datasets demonstrate the superiority of our FineRec over existing state-of-the-art methods. Further analysis also verifies the effectiveness of our fine-grained manner in handling the task.<|reference_end|>
@article{zhang2024finerec:exploring,
    title={FineRec:Exploring Fine-grained Sequential Recommendation},
    author={Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Youlin Wu, Yuan Zhong, Hongfei Lin, Fenglong Ma},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12975},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1145/3626772.3657761},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.12975},
    primaryClass={cs.IR cs.AI}
}