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Oleg Lashinin, Denis Krasilnikov, Aleksandr Milogradskii, Marina Ananyeva

Researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, HSE, and T-Bank developed SAFERec, a self-attention and frequency-enriched model for Next Basket Recommendation. This model integrates item frequency information into a Transformer architecture, leading to improved recommendation accuracy, including up to an 8% increase in Recall@10, and an enhanced ability to recommend novel items for entire purchase baskets.

Key insights

  • Integrating item frequency information into Transformer architectures is crucial for enhancing their performance in Next Basket Recommendation (NBR) tasks.
  • Standard Transformer models, like SASRec, struggle to effectively promote previously consumed and often repeated items in NBR without explicit frequency awareness.
  • Combining sophisticated sequential modeling with frequency-aware components allows for a balance between recommendation accuracy and the introduction of novel items.

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