Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
user interests
long-term preferences
short-term intentions
temporal dynamics
recommendation
SLSREC: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Adaptive Fusion of Long- and Short-Term User Interests
🤖 AI Summary
Existing recommendation approaches struggle to effectively model the dynamic evolution and imbalanced temporal distribution of users’ long-term preferences and short-term intents, limiting their performance. To address this, this work proposes a novel session-based recommendation model that introduces, for the first time in this domain, a self-supervised contrastive learning mechanism. By temporally segmenting user behavior sequences, the model explicitly disentangles representations of long-term and short-term interests and employs an attention-driven adaptive fusion network to dynamically integrate these complementary signals. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across three public benchmark datasets, achieving higher recommendation accuracy while exhibiting strong robustness across diverse scenarios.
📝 Abstract
User interests typically encompass both long-term preferences and short-term intentions, reflecting the dynamic nature of user behaviors across different timeframes. The uneven temporal distribution of user interactions highlights the evolving patterns of interests, making it challenging to accurately capture shifts in interests using comprehensive historical behaviors. To address this, we propose SLSRec, a novel Session-based model with the fusion of Long- and Short-term Recommendations that effectively captures the temporal dynamics of user interests by segmenting historical behaviors over time. Unlike conventional models that combine long- and short-term user interests into a single representation, compromising recommendation accuracy, SLSRec utilizes a self-supervised learning framework to disentangle these two types of interests. A contrastive learning strategy is introduced to ensure accurate calibration of long- and short-term interest representations. Additionally, an attention-based fusion network is designed to adaptively aggregate interest representations, optimizing their integration to enhance recommendation performance. Extensive experiments on three public benchmark datasets demonstrate that SLSRec consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models while exhibiting superior robustness across various scenarios.We will release all source code upon acceptance.
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Self-Supervised Learning
Contrastive Learning
Long- and Short-Term Interests
Attention-based Fusion
Session-based Recommendation
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