Disentangling id and modality effects for session-based recommendation

X Zhang, B Xu, Z Ren, X Wang, H Lin… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and …, 2024dl.acm.org
Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on their
limited behaviors. Modeling user behaviors involves two distinct rationales: co-occurrence
patterns reflected by item IDs, and fine-grained preferences represented by item modalities
(eg, text and images). However, existing methods typically entangle these causes, leading to
their failure in achieving accurate and explainable recommendations. To this end, we
propose a novel framework DIMO to disentangle the effects of ID and modality in the task …
Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on their limited behaviors. Modeling user behaviors involves two distinct rationales: co-occurrence patterns reflected by item IDs, and fine-grained preferences represented by item modalities (e.g., text and images). However, existing methods typically entangle these causes, leading to their failure in achieving accurate and explainable recommendations. To this end, we propose a novel framework DIMO to disentangle the effects of ID and modality in the task. DIMO aims to disentangle these causes at both item and session levels. At the item level, we introduce a co-occurrence representation schema to explicitly incorporate co-occurrence patterns into ID representations. Simultaneously, DIMO aligns different modalities into a unified semantic space to represent them uniformly. At the session level, we present a multi-view self-supervised disentanglement, including proxy mechanism and counterfactual inference, to disentangle ID and modality effects without supervised signals. Leveraging these disentangled causes, DIMO provides recommendations via causal inference and further creates two templates for generating explanations. Extensive experiments on multiple real-world datasets demonstrate the consistent superiority of DIMO over existing methods. Further analysis also confirms DIMO's effectiveness in generating explanations.
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