An adaptive denoising recommendation algorithm for causal separation bias

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• github.com/xhy963319431/ADA
  pytorch★ 4

Abstract

In recommender systems, user selection bias often influences user-item interactions, e.g., users are more likely to rate their previously preferred or popular items. Existing methods can leverage the impact of selection bias in user ratings on the evaluation and optimization of recommendation system. However, these methods either inevitably contain a large amount of noise in the sampling process or suffer from the confound between users’ conformity and interests. Inspired by the recent success of causal inference, in this work we propose a novel method to separate popularity biases for recommendation, named adaptive denoising and causal inference algorithm (ADA). We first compute the average rating of all feedback items of each user as the basis in converting explicit feedback to implicit feedback, and then obtain the true positive implicit data through adaptive denoising method. In addition, we separate the confounding of users’ conformity and interest in the selection bias by causal inference. Specifically, we construct a multi-task learning model with regularization loss functions. Experimental results on the two datasets demonstrate the superiority of our ADA model over state-of-the-art methods in recommendation accuracy.

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