CARE: learning convolutional attentional recurrent embedding for sequential recommendation

Abstract

Top-N sequential recommendation is to predict the next few items based on user's sequential interactions with past items. This paper aims at boosting the performance of top-N sequential recommendation based on a state-of-the-art model, Caser. We point out three insufficiencies of Caser - do not model variant-sized sequential patterns, treating the impact of each past time step equally, and cannot learn cumulative features. Then we propose a novel Convolutional Attentional Recurrent Embedding (CARE) learning model. Experiments conducted on a large-scale user-location check-in dataset exhibit promising performance, comparing to Caser.