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Social Cognitive Theory Enhanced Diversified Recommendation
This paper introduces Cog4DR, a novel recommendation model inspired by social cognitive theory to enhance both diversity and accuracy. By emulating human observational learning, Cog4DR moves beyond traditional methods limited by a single user's historical interactions, addressing the "information cocoon" problem prevalent in current systems. The model leverages a three-step observational learning pipeline—attention, purification, and retention—to discover and learn from other users' diverse preferences, thereby providing recommendations that are not only relevant but also broadly appealing.
Quantifiable Impact of Cog4DR
Cog4DR demonstrates superior performance across key metrics, outperforming state-of-the-art models in both accuracy and diversity.
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Diversified Recommendation Insights
Current recommendation systems often fall into the "information cocoon" problem, repeatedly suggesting homogeneous items due to an over-reliance on a user's limited historical interactions. Cog4DR addresses this by integrating social cognitive theory, enabling the system to learn from broader user behaviors and discover novel interests, thus significantly enhancing recommendation diversity without sacrificing accuracy.
40%+
of users interact with < 5% of categories in their history, highlighting severe diversity limitations for existing systems.
Observational Learning Pipeline
Cog4DR emulates human observational learning through a robust three-step pipeline: Attention, Purification, and Retention. This structured approach allows the model to identify relevant "exemplar" users, filter out noisy or irrelevant information from their interactions, and effectively integrate this diverse knowledge into the current user's profile, leading to more accurate and varied recommendations.
Enterprise Process Flow
Attention: Identify similar users with diverse interaction patterns.
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Purification: Filter out noise from observed user histories using FFT.
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Retention: Integrate purified knowledge into user memory via knowledge transfer loss.
Efficiency & Scalability
Cog4DR achieves a balanced trade-off between computational efficiency and recommendation performance. While its training time is moderate, it significantly reduces inference time compared to other diversified recommendation models, making it suitable for real-world applications requiring quick responses.
| Method | Training Time (min) | Test Time (min) | Key Advantages |
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| LGC | 6.23 | 3.21 |
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| DGCN | 541.90 | 7.45 |
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| DGRec | 30.14 | 5.46 |
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| Cog4DR | 86.07 | 4.24 |
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Ablation Study Findings
Ablation studies confirm the critical role of each component within Cog4DR. Removing the attention, purification, or retention modules consistently leads to a significant performance drop in both accuracy and diversity metrics, validating the efficacy of the proposed observational learning framework.
Impact of Retention Module
Removing the knowledge transfer loss (part of the Retention module) causes the most obvious degradation across all metrics. For instance, Recall@10 drops from 0.0433 to 0.0358 and Coverage@10 from 14.3910 to 12.2803. This highlights the module's vital role in effectively memorizing and disseminating diverse preference knowledge.
Importance of Attention
Without the attention mechanism, which identifies suitable users to observe, performance also suffers significantly. This demonstrates that carefully selecting exemplars with both similar tastes and unique interaction patterns is crucial for balancing interest exploration with recommendation accuracy.
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Your Implementation Roadmap
A phased approach to integrate Cog4DR into your existing infrastructure, ensuring seamless deployment and maximum impact.
Phase 1: Discovery & Planning (2-4 Weeks)
Initial consultation to understand your specific recommendation needs, data sources, and system architecture. Development of a tailored implementation plan, including resource allocation and success metrics.
Phase 2: Data Integration & Model Training (4-8 Weeks)
Secure integration of your user interaction data and item metadata. Initial training of the Cog4DR model, focusing on optimizing for your specific accuracy and diversity objectives.
Phase 3: Testing & Refinement (3-5 Weeks)
Rigorous A/B testing and performance evaluation in a controlled environment. Iterative model refinement based on feedback and real-world performance data to maximize impact.
Phase 4: Deployment & Monitoring (Ongoing)
Full-scale deployment of Cog4DR into your production environment. Continuous monitoring, performance tuning, and regular updates to adapt to evolving user behaviors and data trends.
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