Jiayi Ma, Tianhao Sun^*, Xiaodong Zhang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3569-3584, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040005

Abstract Sequential recommendation based on a multi-interest framework aims to analyze different aspects of interest based on historical interactions and generate predictions of a user’s potential interest in a list of items. Most existing methods only focus on what are the multiple interests behind interactions but neglect the evolution of user interests over time. To explore the impact of temporal dynamics on interest extraction, this paper explicitly models the timestamp with a multi-interest network and proposes a time-highlighted network to learn user preferences, which considers not only the interests at different moments but also the possible trends of interest over time.… More >

Jun-Ping Yao¹, Kai-Yuan Cheng^1,*, Meng-Meng Ge², Xiao-Jun Li¹, Yi-Jing Wang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5509-5524, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030150

Abstract Recommendation algorithms regard user-item interaction as a sequence to capture the user’s short-term preferences, but conventional algorithms cannot capture information of constantly-changing user interest in complex contexts. In these years, combining the knowledge graph with sequential recommendation has gained momentum. The advantages of knowledge graph-based recommendation systems are that more semantic associations can improve the accuracy of recommendations, rich association facts can increase the diversity of recommendations, and complex relational paths can hence the interpretability of recommendations. But the information in the knowledge graph, such as entities and relations, often fails to be fully utilized and high-order connectivity is unattainable… More >