Raserec: Retrieval-augmented Sequential Recommendation

Abstract

Although prevailing supervised and self-supervised learning augmented sequential recommendation (SeRec) models have achieved improved performance with powerful neural network architectures, we argue that they still suffer from two limitations: (1) Preference Drift, where models trained on past data can hardly accommodate evolving user preference; and (2) Implicit Memory, where head patterns dominate parametric learning, making it harder to recall long tails. In this work, we explore retrieval augmentation in SeRec, to address these limitations. Specifically, we propose a Retrieval-Augmented Sequential Recommendation framework, named RaSeRec, the main idea of which is to maintain a dynamic memory bank to accommodate preference drifts and retrieve relevant memories to augment user modeling explicitly. It consists of two stages: (i) collaborative-based pre-training, which learns to recommend and retrieve; (ii) retrieval-augmented fine-tuning, which learns to leverage retrieved memories. E

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