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Se-Young Yun (윤세영), Regret in Online Recommendation Systems

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 @ 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM KST

Room B232, IBS (기초과학연구원)

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We propose a theoretical analysis of recommendation systems in an online setting, where items are sequentially recommended to users over time. In each round, a user, randomly picked from a population of m users, requests a recommendation. The decision-maker observes the user and selects an item from a catalogue of n items. Importantly, an item cannot be recommended twice to the same user. The probabilities that a user likes each item are unknown. The performance of the recommendation algorithm is captured through its regret, considering as a reference an Oracle algorithm aware of these probabilities. We investigate various structural assumptions on these probabilities: we derive for each structure regret lower bounds, and devise algorithms achieving these limits. Interestingly, our analysis reveals the relative weights of the different components of regret: the component due to the constraint of not presenting the same item twice to the same user, that due to learning the chances users like items, and finally that arising when learning the underlying structure.

This is joint work with Kaito Ariu, Narae Ryu, and Alexandre Proutière.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM KST
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Room B232
IBS (기초과학연구원)

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Sang-il Oum (엄상일)
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IBS 이산수학그룹 Discrete Mathematics Group
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