A Hybrid Neural Network and Hidden Markov Model for Time-aware Recommender Systems
Hanxuan Chen, Zuoquan Lin · 2019
In this paper, we propose a hybrid model that combines neural network and hidden Markov model for time-aware recommender systems. We use higher-order hidden Markov model to capture the temporal information of users and items in collaborative filtering systems. Because the computation of the transition matrix of higher-order hidden Markov model is hard, we compute the transition matrix by deep neural networks. We implement the algorithms of the hybrid model for offline batch-learning and online updating respectively. Experiments on real datasets demonstrate that the hybrid model has improvement performances over the existing recommender systems.