A Deep, Forgetful Novelty-Seeking Movie Recommender Model (1909.01811v1)

Abstract: As more and more people shift their movie watching online, competition between movie viewing websites are getting more and more intense. Therefore, it has become incredibly important to accurately predict a given user's watching list to maximize the chances of keeping the user on the platform. Recent studies have suggested that the novelty-seeking propensity of users can impact their viewing behavior. In this paper, we aim to accurately model and describe this novelty-seeking trait across many users and timestamps driven by data, taking into consideration user forgetfulness. Compared to previous studies, we propose a more robust measure for novelty. Our model, termed Deep Forgetful Novelty-Seeking Model (DFNSM), leverages demographic information about users, genre information about movies, and novelty-seeking traits to predict the most likely next actions of a user. To evaluate the performance of our model, we conducted extensive experiments on a large movie rating dataset. The results reveal that DFNSM is very effective for movie recommendation.