In recommender systems, cold-start is a long-standing problem. To solve this problem, cross-domain recommendation methods transfer domain-shared feature from source domain to make recommendations in target domain. Existing methods take the features that a user presents in both domains as domain-shared. However, due to the data sparsity problem, users often present domain-shared features only in one domain, and existing methods may loss these valuable misaligned domain-shared features. To solve this issue, we propose a Misaligned Domain-shared feature aware method for Cross-Domain cold-start Recommendation (MDCDR). The domain-shared feature distillation module applies two complementary tasks to extract misaligned domain-shared features. The misaligned feature probing module tests and discards domain-specific features by a data augmentation and a mixture recommendation task. As a result, MDCDR gains comprehensive misaligned domain-shared features for cross-domain recommendation. Extensive experiments on two cross-domain datasets show that MDCDR outperforms various state-of-the-art methods.

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Identifying Misaligned Features for Cross-Domain Cold-Start Recommendation

  • Mingda Qian,
  • Feifei Dai,
  • Xiaoyan Gu,
  • Haihui Fan,
  • Dong Liu,
  • Feng Tian,
  • Bo Li

摘要

In recommender systems, cold-start is a long-standing problem. To solve this problem, cross-domain recommendation methods transfer domain-shared feature from source domain to make recommendations in target domain. Existing methods take the features that a user presents in both domains as domain-shared. However, due to the data sparsity problem, users often present domain-shared features only in one domain, and existing methods may loss these valuable misaligned domain-shared features. To solve this issue, we propose a Misaligned Domain-shared feature aware method for Cross-Domain cold-start Recommendation (MDCDR). The domain-shared feature distillation module applies two complementary tasks to extract misaligned domain-shared features. The misaligned feature probing module tests and discards domain-specific features by a data augmentation and a mixture recommendation task. As a result, MDCDR gains comprehensive misaligned domain-shared features for cross-domain recommendation. Extensive experiments on two cross-domain datasets show that MDCDR outperforms various state-of-the-art methods.