Summary of Adaptive Learning on User Segmentation: Universal to Specific Representation Via Bipartite Neural Interaction, by Xiaoyu Tan et al.
Adaptive Learning on User Segmentation: Universal to Specific Representation via Bipartite Neural Interaction
by Xiaoyu Tan, Yongxin Deng, Chao Qu, Siqiao Xue, Xiaoming Shi, James Zhang, Xihe Qiu
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel framework for learning user representations that adapt to different segments or tasks in industrial applications like recommendation systems and marketing campaigns. Typically, universal user representations are learned as input for scenario-specific models. However, business objectives and user distributions differ between tasks, which can negatively impact model performance and robustness. The authors introduce an information bottleneck-based method that learns a general user representation initially and then merges it with task-specific or segmentation-specific representations through neural interaction. They use a bipartite graph architecture to model this process and evaluate their approach on two open-source benchmarks, two offline business datasets, and online marketing applications for predicting conversion rates. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps create better models that can understand different types of users and predict how they’ll behave in various situations. Usually, these models learn a general understanding of what people are like, but this might not be enough to make good predictions when the situation changes. For example, if you’re trying to recommend movies to someone who loves sci-fi, it’s helpful to know that they also enjoy action movies. The authors came up with a new way to learn about users by combining their general traits with specific details about what they like or don’t like in different situations. They tested this approach and found that it worked much better than traditional methods. |
