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Negative Sampling for Recommendation

2022-04-02 09:50:19
Bin Liu, Bang Wang

Abstract

How to effectively sample high-quality negative instances is important for well training a recommendation model. We argue that a high-quality negative should be both \textit{informativeness} and \textit{unbiasedness}. Although previous studies have proposed some approaches to address the informativeness in negative sampling, few has been done to discriminating false negative from true negative for unbiased negative sampling, not to mention taking both into consideration. This paper first adopts a parameter learning perspective to analyze negative informativeness and unbiasedness in loss gradient-based model training. We argue that both negative sampling and collaborative filtering include an implicit task of negative classification, from which we report an insightful yet beneficial finding about the order relation in predicted negatives' scores. Based on our finding and by regarding negatives as random variables, we next derive the class condition density of true negatives and that of false negatives. We also design a Bayesian classifier for negative classification, from which we define a quantitative unbiasedness measure for negatives. Finally, we propose to use a harmonic mean of informativeness and unbiasedness to sample high-quality negatives. Experimental studies validate the superiority of our negative sampling algorithm over the peers in terms of better sampling quality and better recommendation performance.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06520

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.06520.pdf


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