Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Rethinking Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation under Open-World Assumptions |
| Authors: |
Xu, Wujiang, Wu, Qitian, Wang, Runzhong, Ha, Mingming, Ma, Qiongxu, Chen, Linxun, Han, Bing, Yan, Junchi |
| Source: |
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW '24) |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
Computer Science |
| Subject Terms: |
Computer Science - Information Retrieval |
| More Details: |
Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) methods aim to tackle the data sparsity and cold-start problems present in Single-Domain Sequential Recommendation (SDSR). Existing CDSR works design their elaborate structures relying on overlapping users to propagate the cross-domain information. However, current CDSR methods make closed-world assumptions, assuming fully overlapping users across multiple domains and that the data distribution remains unchanged from the training environment to the test environment. As a result, these methods typically result in lower performance on online real-world platforms due to the data distribution shifts. To address these challenges under open-world assumptions, we design an \textbf{A}daptive \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{I}nterest \textbf{D}ebiasing framework for cross-domain sequential recommendation (\textbf{AMID}), which consists of a multi-interest information module (\textbf{MIM}) and a doubly robust estimator (\textbf{DRE}). Our framework is adaptive for open-world environments and can improve the model of most off-the-shelf single-domain sequential backbone models for CDSR. Our MIM establishes interest groups that consider both overlapping and non-overlapping users, allowing us to effectively explore user intent and explicit interest. To alleviate biases across multiple domains, we developed the DRE for the CDSR methods. We also provide a theoretical analysis that demonstrates the superiority of our proposed estimator in terms of bias and tail bound, compared to the IPS estimator used in previous work. |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1145/3589334.3645351 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04590 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.2311.04590 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
