Multi-Aspect Interest Neighbor-Augmented Network for Next-Basket Recommendation

Abstract

Next-basket recommendation (NBR) is a type of recommendation task that focuses on mining user interests based on the sequential basket records in which users purchase multiple items at a time. Limited by the sparsity brought by short-term user interaction behavior, existing NBR methods typically fail to mine fine-grained and complete representation of user interests, resulting in unsatisfactory recommendation performance. To address this issue, we propose a novel Multi-aspect Interest Neighbor-augmented Network (MINN) to capture fine-grained and complete representation of user interest for the next basket prediction. Specifically, we first design a multi-aspect interest encoder to learn representations of users and items in the multi-aspect interest space. Semantic neighbors are then selected for user to enhance the user’s representation of interest through a semantic neighbor augmentation mechanism. Finally, the user’s representation of interest and his/her repeated purchase behavior are jointly considered to implement the next basket prediction. Extensive experimental studies on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that MINN outperforms several representative NBR methods and achieves new state-of-the-art results.