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Tree-enhanced Embedding Model

This is our project for the paper:

Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Fuli Feng, Liqiang Nie and Tat-Seng Chua (2018). TEM: Tree-enhanced Embedding Model for Explainable Recommendation. In WWW'18, Lyon, France, April 23–27, 2018.

Author: Dr. Xiang Wang (xiangwang at u.nus.edu)

Introduction

Tree-enhanced Embedding Mode (TEM) is a new recommendation framework, which combines the strong representation ability of embeddingbased and interpretability of tree-based models. At its core is an easy-to-interpret decision-tree and attention network, making the recommendation process fully transparent and explainable.

Citation

If you want to use our codes and datasets in your research, please cite:

@inproceedings{TEM2018,
  author    = {Xiang Wang and
               Xiangnan He and
               Fuli Feng and
               Liqiang Nie and
               Tat{-}Seng Chua},
  title     = {{TEM:} Tree-enhanced Embedding Model for Explainable Recommendation},
  booktitle = {{WWW}},
  pages     = {1543--1552},
  year      = {2018},
}

Codes

We are finding license suitable to release this software. Currently codes are under request and will be released later.

Dataset

We provide two rich-attribute datasets: London-Attractions (LON-A) and New-York-City-Restaurant (NYC-R) datasets, which have user profiles and item attributes, and are collected from TripAdvisor.