Algorithm Research & Explore
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1349-1355

Off-policy imitation-reinforcement learning for sequential recommendation

Liu Jialin1,2
He Zeyu3
Li Jun1
1. Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100045, China
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100045, China
3. Computer School, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing 100101, China

Abstract

Recently, reinforcement learning sequence recommender systems have received widespread attention because they can better model the internal dynamics and external tendencies of user interests. However, existing methods face two major challenges: low utilization of same-strategy evaluation data causes the model to rely on a large amount of expert annotation data and heuristic value incentive functions rely on costly repeated manual debugging. This paper proposed a new hetero-strategic imitation-reinforcement learning method to improve data utilization efficiency and achieve a learnable value function. Firstly, it updated the distribution matching objective function through different strategies to avoid the intensive online interaction limitations of same-strategy updates. Secondly, COG4Rec adopted a learnable value function design and imitated the value incentive function of outdoor tendencies through the logarithmic decay state distribution ratio. Finally, in order to avoid the problem of imitation learning distribution drift, COG4Rec strengthened the recommendation strategy for recombining high-value trajectory segments in user behavior records through the cumulative attenuation distribution ratio. The results of performance comparison experiments and ablation experiments on a series of benchmark data sets show that COG4Rec is 17.60% better than the autoregressive model and 3.25% better than the heuristic reinforcement learning method. This proves the effectiveness of the proposed COG4Rec model structure and optimization algorithm. This also proves that the design of a learnable value function is feasible, and the heterogeneous strategy approach can effectively improve data utilization efficiency.

Foundation Support

国家自然科学基金资助项目(61672490,61602436)
中国科学院对外合作重点项目(241711KYSB20180002)
国家重大研发计划子课题(2022YFC3320900)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2023.10.0447
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Printed Article, Vol. 41, 2024 No. 5
Section: Algorithm Research & Explore
Pages: 1349-1355
Serial Number: 1001-3695(2024)05-010-1349-07

Publish History

[2024-01-16] Accepted Paper
[2024-05-05] Printed Article

Cite This Article

刘珈麟, 贺泽宇, 李俊. 异策略模仿-强化学习序列推荐算法 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2024, 41 (5): 1349-1355. (Liu Jialin, He Zeyu, Li Jun. Off-policy imitation-reinforcement learning for sequential recommendation [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2024, 41 (5): 1349-1355. )

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