Implicit feedback is a key source of information for many recommendation and personalization approaches. However, using it typically requires multiple episodes of interaction and roundtrips to a recommendation engine. This adds latency and neglects the opportunity of immediate personalization for a user while the user is navigating recommendations. We propose a novel strategy to address the above problem in a principled manner. The key insight is that as we observe a user's interactions, it reveals much more information about her desires. We exploit this by inferring the within-session user intent on-the-fly based on navigation interactions, since they offer valuable clues into a user's current state of mind. Using navigation patterns and adapting recommendations in real-time creates an opportunity to provide more accurate recommendations. By prefetching a larger amount of content, this can be carried out entirely in the client (such as a browser) without added latency. We define a new Bayesian model with an efficient inference algorithm. We demonstrate significant improvements with this novel approach on a real-world, large-scale dataset from Netflix on the problem of adapting the recommendations on a user's homepage.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 citeulike:14142467
%A Wu, Chao Y.
%A Alvino, Christopher V.
%A Smola, Alexander J.
%A Basilico, Justin
%B Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2016
%I ACM
%K adaptive-hypermedia navigation recommender recsys2016 user-modeling
%P 341--348
%R 10.1145/2959100.2959174
%T Using Navigation to Improve Recommendations in Real-Time
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2959100.2959174
%X Implicit feedback is a key source of information for many recommendation and personalization approaches. However, using it typically requires multiple episodes of interaction and roundtrips to a recommendation engine. This adds latency and neglects the opportunity of immediate personalization for a user while the user is navigating recommendations. We propose a novel strategy to address the above problem in a principled manner. The key insight is that as we observe a user's interactions, it reveals much more information about her desires. We exploit this by inferring the within-session user intent on-the-fly based on navigation interactions, since they offer valuable clues into a user's current state of mind. Using navigation patterns and adapting recommendations in real-time creates an opportunity to provide more accurate recommendations. By prefetching a larger amount of content, this can be carried out entirely in the client (such as a browser) without added latency. We define a new Bayesian model with an efficient inference algorithm. We demonstrate significant improvements with this novel approach on a real-world, large-scale dataset from Netflix on the problem of adapting the recommendations on a user's homepage.
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abstract = {{Implicit feedback is a key source of information for many recommendation and personalization approaches. However, using it typically requires multiple episodes of interaction and roundtrips to a recommendation engine. This adds latency and neglects the opportunity of immediate personalization for a user while the user is navigating recommendations. We propose a novel strategy to address the above problem in a principled manner. The key insight is that as we observe a user's interactions, it reveals much more information about her desires. We exploit this by inferring the within-session user intent on-the-fly based on navigation interactions, since they offer valuable clues into a user's current state of mind. Using navigation patterns and adapting recommendations in real-time creates an opportunity to provide more accurate recommendations. By prefetching a larger amount of content, this can be carried out entirely in the client (such as a browser) without added latency. We define a new Bayesian model with an efficient inference algorithm. We demonstrate significant improvements with this novel approach on a real-world, large-scale dataset from Netflix on the problem of adapting the recommendations on a user's homepage.}},
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author = {Wu, Chao Y. and Alvino, Christopher V. and Smola, Alexander J. and Basilico, Justin},
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posted-at = {2016-09-19 16:32:31},
priority = {2},
publisher = {ACM},
series = {RecSys '16},
timestamp = {2018-03-19T12:24:51.000+0100},
title = {{Using Navigation to Improve Recommendations in Real-Time}},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2959100.2959174},
year = 2016
}