Systems and methods for sequential recommendation

Abstract

Embodiments described herein provides an intent prototypical contrastive learning framework that leverages intent similarities between users with different behavior sequences. Specifically, user behavior sequences are encoded into a plurality of user interest representations. The user interest representations are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on mutual distances among the user interest representations in a representation space. Intention prototypes are determined based on centroids of the clusters. A set of augmented views for user behavior sequences are created and encoded into a set of view representations. A contrastive loss is determined based on the set of augmented views and the plurality of intention prototypes. Model parameters are updated based at least in part on the contrastive loss.