Nick Landia, Rachael Mcalister, Donna North, Saikishore Kalloori, Abhishek Srivastava, B. Ferwerda
{"title":"RecSys Challenge 2022 Dataset: Dressipi 1M Fashion Sessions","authors":"Nick Landia, Rachael Mcalister, Donna North, Saikishore Kalloori, Abhishek Srivastava, B. Ferwerda","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556779","url":null,"abstract":"As part of the RecSys Challenge 2022, the Dressipi 1M Fashion Sessions dataset is publicly released. This paper gives an overview of the content and structure of the dataset, as well as explaining the process by which it was constructed. The dataset contains anonymous browsing sessions, a purchase for each session, as well as content data of the items. The content data consists of IDs that represent descriptive fashion characteristics of the items and have been assigned using Dressipi’s human-in-the-loop labelling system. We hope that this dataset will be valuable in recommender systems research beyond the RecSys Challenge and encourage more publications in the fashion domain.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122126845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyunsung Lee, Sungwook Yoo, Andrew Yang, Wonjun Jang, Chiwan Park
{"title":"Simple and Efficient Recommendation Strategy for Warm/Cold Sessions for RecSys Challenge 2022","authors":"Hyunsung Lee, Sungwook Yoo, Andrew Yang, Wonjun Jang, Chiwan Park","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556851","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe our approach for the RecSys 2022 Challenge organized by Dressipi. The goal of the challenge is to predict which item is purchased next given sessions of users as well as metadata of items from fashion e-commerce service. One key characteristic of this problem is that most sessions only have few (lower than 3) previous views. Furthermore, a large number of sessions (about 19%) contain views and purchases of items that did not appear before. We propose the following approaches to overcome these problems. First, we introduce a simple, yet strong sequence-aware MLP that outperforms recently proposed sequential recommenders such as BERT4Rec and GRU4Rec in the given dataset. Secondly, we propose a similarity metric that captures not only item metadata but also item popularity. Lastly, we predict recommendations for different types of sessions with different serving models.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128575523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fashion Recommendation with a real Recommender System Flow","authors":"Qi Zhang, Guohao Cai, Wei Guo, Yiqiu Han, Zhenhua Dong, Ruiming Tang, Liangbi Li","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556792","url":null,"abstract":"In this technical report, we present our solution of RecSys Challenge 2022 focusing on the fashion recommendation. We produce recommendations in two steps: (i) the retrieval step, which generates a candidate item set based on multiple cheap-to-compute strategies; (ii) the ranking step: which rearranges the candidate items with a richer set of features. Specifically, we conduct various strategies to retrieve as many positive samples as possible in retrieval step and obtain the retrieval scores from these retrieval channels meanwhile. Then these scores along with some extracted features are involved in the ranking stage for modeling to generate the purchase prediction. In the final submission, we use six effective retrieval strategies in retrieval step and ensemble five ranking models by taking average of their outputs. Using our method, our team doubleQ achieved MRR 0.2013 on final test set which wins the 10 place, and the solution codes are available via https://github.com/doubleQ2018/recsys-challenge-2022.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114885475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benedikt D. Schifferer, Jiwei Liu, Sara Rabhi, Gilberto Titericz, Chris Deotte, Gabriel de Souza P. Moreira, Ronay Ak, Kazuki Onodera
{"title":"A Diverse Models Ensemble for Fashion Session-Based Recommendation","authors":"Benedikt D. Schifferer, Jiwei Liu, Sara Rabhi, Gilberto Titericz, Chris Deotte, Gabriel de Souza P. Moreira, Ronay Ak, Kazuki Onodera","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556821","url":null,"abstract":"Session-based recommendation is an important task for domains like e-commerce, that suffer from the user cold-start problem due to anonymous browsing and for which users preferences might change considerably over time. The RecSys Challenge 2022, organized by Dressipi, is focused on the session-based recommendation problem for the fashion e-commerce domain. In this paper, the NVIDIA RAPIDS and NVIDIA Merlin teams present their solution that placed 3rd in the challenge. Among the most effective techniques we found sessions augmentation and ensembling a very diverse set of statistical, machine learning and deep learning models. Our recommendation pipeline is composed of three stages, where the first level is focused on candidate generation and the others refine the recommendation ranking for more robust and accurate recommendations.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123409685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pietro Maldini, Alessandro Sanvito, Mattia Surricchio
{"title":"United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Leveraging Ensembles of Recommenders to Compete with Budget Constrained Resources","authors":"Pietro Maldini, Alessandro Sanvito, Mattia Surricchio","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556845","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we provide an overview of the approach we used as team Surricchi1 for the ACM RecSys Challenge 20221. The competition, sponsored and organized by Dressipi, involves a typical session-based recommendation task in the fashion industry domain. Our proposed method2 leverages an ensemble of multiple recommenders selected to capture diverse facets of the input data. Such a modular approach allowed our team to achieve competitive results with a score of 0.1994 Mean Reciprocal Rank at 100 (∼ 7.6% less than the first qualified team). We obtained this result by leveraging only publicly and freely available computational resources 3 and our own laptops. Part of the merit also lies in the size of this year’s dataset (∼ 5 million data points), which democratized the challenge to a larger public and allowed us to join the challenge as independent researchers.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122548734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiangwei Luo, Wenxuan Zhao, Ye Tang, Zhou Zhou, Huimin Xiong, Zhulin Tao
{"title":"LightGBM using Enhanced and De-biased Item Representation for Better Session-based Fashion Recommender Systems","authors":"Jiangwei Luo, Wenxuan Zhao, Ye Tang, Zhou Zhou, Huimin Xiong, Zhulin Tao","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556839","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present our 5th place solution for the ACM RecSys 2022 challenge (http://www.recsyschallenge.com/2022/).The competition, organized by Dressipi, aims to predict the fashion item purchasing actions on a public dataset of 1.1 million online retail sessions. In the traditional sequence recommendation model, we mainly utilize the action sequence information to model the representations of items and users. However, the fashion categories and features of items change much more frequently in our task, and the bias caused by the popularity will greatly affect the representations learning for the users and items. In this work, our team, termed THLUO, devise a model, which injects the spatiotemporal features of each item in sessions to alleviate the bias problem and capture the latest fashion trend information hiding in the session. In more detail, we proposed a two stages model, which includes retrieval and re-ranking. In the retrieval stage, we adapt the positions and timestamp features into the item-CF model to eliminate the bias caused by the popularity. In the re-ranking stage, we not only adapt traditional feature engineering but also used the enhanced features created by neural net works and fusion them as inputs of LightGBM for final prediction. After careful experiments, our model’s result archive an outstanding score of 0.2062 in mean reciprocal rank metrics in the test dataset, finally ranked fifth in the competition.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114582717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicola Della Volpe, Lorenzo Mainetti, Alessio Martignetti, Andrea Menta, Riccardo Pala, Giacomo Polvanesi, Francesco Sammarco, Fernando Benjamin Perez Maurera, Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema
{"title":"Lightweight Model for Session-Based Recommender Systems with Seasonality Information in the Fashion Domain","authors":"Nicola Della Volpe, Lorenzo Mainetti, Alessio Martignetti, Andrea Menta, Riccardo Pala, Giacomo Polvanesi, Francesco Sammarco, Fernando Benjamin Perez Maurera, Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556829","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the solution designed by the team “Boston Team Party” for the ACM RecSys Challenge 2022. The competition was organized by Dressipi and was framed under the session-based fashion recommendations domain. Particularly, the task was to predict the purchased item at the end of each anonymous session. Our proposed two-stage solution is effective, lightweight, and scalable. First, it leverages the expertise of several strong recommendation models to produce a pool of candidate items. Then, a Gradient-Boosting Decision Tree model aggregates these candidates alongside several hand-crafted features to produce the final ranking. Our model achieved a score of 0.18800 in the public leaderboard. To aid in the reproducibility of our findings, we open-source our materials.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132034242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session-Based Recommendation by combining Probabilistic Models and LSTM","authors":"C. Panagiotakis, H. Papadakis","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556846","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the approach, we used as team ”DataLab HMU.GR”, for the ACM RecSys Challenge 2022 [1]. The challenge aims to predict the item that was purchased for a given sequence of item views (session). The full dataset, provided by Dressipi, consists of 1.1 million online retail sessions. Our proposed method, that solves the Session-Based Recommendation problem, relies on an efficient deterministic system based on a weighted combination of Probabilistic models and an LSTM neural network. Probabilistic models learn the transition probabilities between item-item interactions of each session, that are used to predict the purchase probability of an item in a new session. The LSTM neural network takes as input the context representation of the items in a session and a candidate item and predicts the purchase probability of the candidate item. The experimental results demonstrate the high performance and the computational efficiency of the probabilistic models. Our submission achieved the 13th rank and an overall score of 0.1963 in the final competition results. We release our source code at: https://github.com/cpanag79/recsys-Challenge-2022.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121773133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chendi Xue, Xinyao Wang, Yu Zhou, Ke Ding, Jian Zhang, Rita Brugarolas Brufau, Eric Anderson
{"title":"SIHG4SR: Side Information Heterogeneous Graph for Session Recommender","authors":"Chendi Xue, Xinyao Wang, Yu Zhou, Ke Ding, Jian Zhang, Rita Brugarolas Brufau, Eric Anderson","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556852","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present Side Information Heterogeneous Graph for Session Recommender – SIHG4SR, our solution for RecSys Challenge 2022[3], a competition organized by Dressipi for fashion recommendation. Dressipi provides data about user session, purchased items and content features to predict which fashion item will be bought. Our solution leverages side information and heterogeneous graph, deep dives into the data and engineers new features, employs two-stage training and multi-level ensemble strategy, and enhances the performance with fine tuning and hyper-parameter tuning. Finally SIHG4SR outperforms the state-of-art baselines, getting an MRR score 0.20762 and ranked 4th position on final leaderboard(team name ”MooreWins”). We published our solution at github1.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131072453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session-based Recommendation with Transformers","authors":"Yichao Lu, Jianing Sun","doi":"10.1145/3556702.3556844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3556702.3556844","url":null,"abstract":"Large item catalogs and constantly changing preference trends make recommendations a critically important component of every fashion e-commerce platform. However, since most users browse anonymously, historical preference data is rarely available and recommendations have to be made using only information from within the session. In the 2022 ACM RecSys challenge, Dressipi released a dataset with 1.1 million online retail sessions in the fashion domain that span an 18-month period. The goal is to predict the item purchased at the end of each session. To simulate a common production scenario all sessions are anonymous and no previous user preference information is available. In this paper, we present our approach to this challenge. We leverage the Transformer architecture with two different learning objectives inspired by the self-supervised learning techniques to improve generalization. Our team, LAYER 6, achieves strong results placing 2’nd on the final leaderboard out of over 300 teams.","PeriodicalId":141185,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121416451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}