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Data Augmentation Using Many-To-Many RNNs for Session-Aware Recommender Systems

Information Retrieval 2021-08-27 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

The ACM WSDM WebTour 2021 Challenge organized by Booking.com focuses on applying Session-Aware recommender systems in the travel domain. Given a sequence of travel bookings in a user trip, we look to recommend the user's next destination. To handle the large dimensionality of the output's space, we propose a many-to-many RNN model, predicting the next destination chosen by the user at every sequence step as opposed to only the final one. We show how this is a computationally efficient alternative to doing data augmentation in a many-to-one RNN, where we consider every subsequence of a session starting from the first element. Our solution achieved 4th place in the final leaderboard, with an accuracy@4 of 0.5566.

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@article{arxiv.2108.09858,
  title  = {Data Augmentation Using Many-To-Many RNNs for Session-Aware Recommender Systems},
  author = {Martín Baigorria Alonso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09858},
  year   = {2021}
}
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