An Efficient Hybrid Recommendation Model With Deep Neural Networks

Recently, deep learning has gained great popularity in the area of recommender systems. Various combinations of deep learning, collaborative recommendation and content-based recommendation have occurred. However, as one of the three most significant recommendation techniques, hybrid recommendation has little cooperation with deep learning. Besides, most current deep hybrid models only incorporate two simple recommendation methods together in post-fusion, leaving massive space for further exploration of better combinations. In this paper, we apply deep learning to hybrid recommendation, proposing a deep hybrid recommendation model DMFL (Deep Metric Factorization Learning). In DMFL, we combine deep learning with improved machine learning models to learn the interaction between users and items from multiple perspectives. Such deep hybrid learning helps to reflect the user preference more comprehensively and strengthen model’s ability of generalization. We also propose a more accurate method of user feature representation, taking both long-term static characteristics and short-term dynamic interest changes of users into consideration. Furthermore, thorough experiments have been conducted on real-world datasets, which strongly proves the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed model.