scholarly journals Interaction-Aware Factorization Machines for Recommender Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 3804-3811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuxing Hong ◽  
Dongbo Huang ◽  
Ge Chen
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Feature Interaction ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Field Interaction ◽  
Feature Interactions ◽  
Factorization Machine ◽  
Novel Model

Factorization Machine (FM) is a widely used supervised learning approach by effectively modeling of feature interactions. Despite the successful application of FM and its many deep learning variants, treating every feature interaction fairly may degrade the performance. For example, the interactions of a useless feature may introduce noises; the importance of a feature may also differ when interacting with different features. In this work, we propose a novel model named Interaction-aware Factorization Machine (IFM) by introducing Interaction-Aware Mechanism (IAM), which comprises the feature aspect and the field aspect, to learn flexible interactions on two levels. The feature aspect learns feature interaction importance via an attention network while the field aspect learns the feature interaction effect as a parametric similarity of the feature interaction vector and the corresponding field interaction prototype. IFM introduces more structured control and learns feature interaction importance in a stratified manner, which allows for more leverage in tweaking the interactions on both feature-wise and field-wise levels. Besides, we give a more generalized architecture and propose Interaction-aware Neural Network (INN) and DeepIFM to capture higher-order interactions. To further improve both the performance and efficiency of IFM, a sampling scheme is developed to select interactions based on the field aspect importance. The experimental results from two well-known datasets show the superiority of the proposed models over the state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals Attentional Factorization Machines: Learning the Weight of Feature Interactions via Attention Networks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Xiao ◽  
Hao Ye ◽  
Xiangnan He ◽  
Hanwang Zhang ◽  
Fei Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Feature Interaction ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Attention Networks ◽  
Feature Interactions ◽  
Factorization Machine ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Novel Model

Factorization Machines (FMs) are a supervised learning approach that enhances the linear regression model by incorporating the second-order feature interactions. Despite effectiveness, FM can be hindered by its modelling of all feature interactions with the same weight, as not all feature interactions are equally useful and predictive. For example, the interactions with useless features may even introduce noises and adversely degrade the performance. In this work, we improve FM by discriminating the importance of different feature interactions. We propose a novel model named Attentional Factorization Machine (AFM), which learns the importance of each feature interaction from data via a neural attention network. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of AFM. Empirically, it is shown on regression task AFM betters FM with a 8.6% relative improvement, and consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art deep learning methods Wide&Deep [Cheng et al., 2016] and DeepCross [Shan et al., 2016] with a much simpler structure and fewer model parameters. Our implementation of AFM is publicly available at: https://github.com/hexiangnan/attentional_factorization_machine

scholarly journals An Input-aware Factorization Machine for Sparse Prediction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yantao Yu ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Bo Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Real World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Factorization Machine ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Novel Model ◽  
Individual Input ◽  
Better Than

Factorization machines (FMs) are a class of general predictors working effectively with sparse data, which represents features using factorized parameters and weights. However, the accuracy of FMs can be adversely affected by the fixed representation trained for each feature, as the same feature is usually not equally predictive and useful in different instances. In fact, the inaccurate representation of features may even introduce noise and degrade the overall performance. In this work, we improve FMs by explicitly considering the impact of individual input upon the representation of features. We propose a novel model named \textit{Input-aware Factorization Machine} (IFM), which learns a unique input-aware factor for the same feature in different instances via a neural network. Comprehensive experiments on three real-world recommendation datasets are used to demonstrate the effectiveness and mechanism of IFM. Empirical results indicate that IFM is significantly better than the standard FM model and consistently outperforms four state-of-the-art deep learning based methods.

scholarly journals Learning Feature Interactions with Lorentzian Factorization Machine

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
pp. 6470-6477
Author(s):  
Canran Xu ◽  
Ming Wu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Hyperbolic Space ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Triangle Inequality ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
New Model ◽  
User Behaviors ◽  
Feature Interactions ◽  
Factorization Machine

Learning representations for feature interactions to model user behaviors is critical for recommendation system and click-trough rate (CTR) predictions. Recent advances in this area are empowered by deep learning methods which could learn sophisticated feature interactions and achieve the state-of-the-art result in an end-to-end manner. These approaches require large number of training parameters integrated with the low-level representations, and thus are memory and computational inefficient. In this paper, we propose a new model named “LorentzFM” that can learn feature interactions embedded in a hyperbolic space in which the violation of triangle inequality for Lorentz distances is available. To this end, the learned representation is benefited by the peculiar geometric properties of hyperbolic triangles, and result in a significant reduction in the number of parameters (20% to 80%) because all the top deep learning layers are not required. With such a lightweight architecture, LorentzFM achieves comparable and even materially better results than the deep learning methods such as DeepFM, xDeepFM and Deep & Cross in both recommendation and CTR prediction tasks.

scholarly journals XCM: An Explainable Convolutional Neural Network for Multivariate Time Series Classification

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (23) ◽  
pp. 3137
Author(s):  
Kevin Fauvel ◽  
Tao Lin ◽  
Véronique Masson ◽  
Élisa Fromont ◽  
Alexandre Termier
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Input Data ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Multivariate Time Series ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Multiple Domains ◽  
Post Hoc

Multivariate Time Series (MTS) classification has gained importance over the past decade with the increase in the number of temporal datasets in multiple domains. The current state-of-the-art MTS classifier is a heavyweight deep learning approach, which outperforms the second-best MTS classifier only on large datasets. Moreover, this deep learning approach cannot provide faithful explanations as it relies on post hoc model-agnostic explainability methods, which could prevent its use in numerous applications. In this paper, we present XCM, an eXplainable Convolutional neural network for MTS classification. XCM is a new compact convolutional neural network which extracts information relative to the observed variables and time directly from the input data. Thus, XCM architecture enables a good generalization ability on both large and small datasets, while allowing the full exploitation of a faithful post hoc model-specific explainability method (Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping) by precisely identifying the observed variables and timestamps of the input data that are important for predictions. We first show that XCM outperforms the state-of-the-art MTS classifiers on both the large and small public UEA datasets. Then, we illustrate how XCM reconciles performance and explainability on a synthetic dataset and show that XCM enables a more precise identification of the regions of the input data that are important for predictions compared to the current deep learning MTS classifier also providing faithful explainability. Finally, we present how XCM can outperform the current most accurate state-of-the-art algorithm on a real-world application while enhancing explainability by providing faithful and more informative explanations.

scholarly journals Deep Field-Aware Interaction Machine for Click-Through Rate Prediction

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Gaofeng Qi ◽  
Ping Li
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Feature Interaction ◽  
Structure Form ◽  
Feature Interactions ◽  
Great Performance ◽  
Field Information ◽  
Factorization Machine ◽  
Click Through Rate ◽  
Modeling Feature

Modeling feature interactions is of crucial importance to predict click-through rate (CTR) in industrial recommender systems. Because of great performance and efficiency, the factorization machine (FM) has been a popular approach to learn feature interaction. Recently, several variants of FM are proposed to improve its performance, and they have proven the field information to play an important role. However, feature-length in a field is usually small; we observe that when there are multiple nonzero features within a field, the interaction between fields is not enough to represent the feature interaction between different fields due to the problem of short feature-length. In this work, we propose a novel neural CTR model named DeepFIM by introducing Field-aware Interaction Machine (FIM), which provides a layered structure form to describe intrafield and interfield feature interaction, to solve the short-expression problem caused by the short feature-length in the field. Experiments show that our model achieves comparable and even materially better results than the state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals When Image Denoising Meets High-Level Vision Tasks: A Deep Learning Approach

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ding Liu ◽  
Bihan Wen ◽  
Xianming Liu ◽  
Zhangyang Wang ◽  
Thomas Huang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Image Denoising ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Network Solution ◽  
High Level

Conventionally, image denoising and high-level vision tasks are handled separately in computer vision. In this paper, we cope with the two jointly and explore the mutual influence between them. First we propose a convolutional neural network for image denoising which achieves the state-of-the-art performance. Second we propose a deep neural network solution that cascades two modules for image denoising and various high-level tasks, respectively, and use the joint loss for updating only the denoising network via back-propagation. We demonstrate that on one hand, the proposed denoiser has the generality to overcome the performance degradation of different high-level vision tasks. On the other hand, with the guidance of high-level vision information, the denoising network can generate more visually appealing results. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work investigating the benefit of exploiting image semantics simultaneously for image denoising and high-level vision tasks via deep learning.

scholarly journals Deep Learning for Transient Image Reconstruction from ToF Data

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1962
Author(s):  
Enrico Buratto ◽  
Adriano Simonetto ◽  
Gianluca Agresti ◽  
Henrik Schäfer ◽  
Pietro Zanuttigh
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Light Response ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Depth Image ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Multiple Reflections ◽  
Noisy Input ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Incoming Light

In this work, we propose a novel approach for correcting multi-path interference (MPI) in Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras by estimating the direct and global components of the incoming light. MPI is an error source linked to the multiple reflections of light inside a scene; each sensor pixel receives information coming from different light paths which generally leads to an overestimation of the depth. We introduce a novel deep learning approach, which estimates the structure of the time-dependent scene impulse response and from it recovers a depth image with a reduced amount of MPI. The model consists of two main blocks: a predictive model that learns a compact encoded representation of the backscattering vector from the noisy input data and a fixed backscattering model which translates the encoded representation into the high dimensional light response. Experimental results on real data show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, which reaches state-of-the-art performances.

SHEDR: An End-to-End Deep Neural Event Detection and Recommendation Framework for Hyperlocal News Using Social Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuheng Hu ◽  
Yili Hong
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Event Detection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Neural Event ◽  
End To End

Residents often rely on newspapers and television to gather hyperlocal news for community awareness and engagement. More recently, social media have emerged as an increasingly important source of hyperlocal news. Thus far, the literature on using social media to create desirable societal benefits, such as civic awareness and engagement, is still in its infancy. One key challenge in this research stream is to timely and accurately distill information from noisy social media data streams to community members. In this work, we develop SHEDR (social media–based hyperlocal event detection and recommendation), an end-to-end neural event detection and recommendation framework with a particular use case for Twitter to facilitate residents’ information seeking of hyperlocal events. The key model innovation in SHEDR lies in the design of the hyperlocal event detector and the event recommender. First, we harness the power of two popular deep neural network models, the convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM), in a novel joint CNN-LSTM model to characterize spatiotemporal dependencies for capturing unusualness in a region of interest, which is classified as a hyperlocal event. Next, we develop a neural pairwise ranking algorithm for recommending detected hyperlocal events to residents based on their interests. To alleviate the sparsity issue and improve personalization, our algorithm incorporates several types of contextual information covering topic, social, and geographical proximities. We perform comprehensive evaluations based on two large-scale data sets comprising geotagged tweets covering Seattle and Chicago. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework in comparison with several state-of-the-art approaches. We show that our hyperlocal event detection and recommendation models consistently and significantly outperform other approaches in terms of precision, recall, and F-1 scores. Summary of Contribution: In this paper, we focus on a novel and important, yet largely underexplored application of computing—how to improve civic engagement in local neighborhoods via local news sharing and consumption based on social media feeds. To address this question, we propose two new computational and data-driven methods: (1) a deep learning–based hyperlocal event detection algorithm that scans spatially and temporally to detect hyperlocal events from geotagged Twitter feeds; and (2) A personalized deep learning–based hyperlocal event recommender system that systematically integrates several contextual cues such as topical, geographical, and social proximity to recommend the detected hyperlocal events to potential users. We conduct a series of experiments to examine our proposed models. The outcomes demonstrate that our algorithms are significantly better than the state-of-the-art models and can provide users with more relevant information about the local neighborhoods that they live in, which in turn may boost their community engagement.

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