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Meta-Learning Helps Personalized Product Search
WWW 2022 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022
  • Bin Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
  • Zaiqiao Meng, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence & University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Qiang Zhang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
  • Shangsong Liang, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China & Mohamed bin Zayed of Artificial Intelligence
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Abstract

Personalized product search that provides users with customized search services is an important task for e-commerce platforms. This task remains a challenge when inferring users' preferences from few records or even no records, which is also known as the few-shot or zero-shot learning problem. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian Online Meta-Learning Model (BOML), which transfers meta-knowledge, from the inference for other users' preferences, to help to infer the current user's interest behind her/his few or even no historical records. To extract meta-knowledge from various inference patterns, our model constructs a mixture of meta-knowledge and transfers the corresponding meta-knowledge to the specific user according to her/his records. Based on the meta-knowledge learned from other similar inferences, our proposed model searches a ranked list of products to meet users' personalized query intents for those with few search records (i.e., few-shot learning problem) or even no search records (i.e., zero-shot learning problem). Under the records arriving sequentially setting, we propose an online variational inference algorithm to update meta-knowledge over time. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed BOML outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms. © 2022 ACM.

DOI
10.1145/3485447.3512036
Publication Date
4-25-2022
Keywords
  • E-learning,
  • Knowledge management,
  • Learning systems,
  • Bayesian,
  • Learning problem,
  • Meta-knowledge,
  • Meta-learning models,
  • Metalearning,
  • Online learning,
  • Personalized products,
  • Product search,
  • Search services,
  • User's preferences,
  • Inference engines
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Citation Information
B. Wu, Z. Meng, Q. Zhang, and S. Liang, "Meta-Learning Helps Personalized Product Search", in 31st ACM World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2022, April 25-29, 2022 [Online]. DOI:10.1145/3485447.3512036