IP Library Granted Patent US 12688431
Granted Patent B2
US 12688431 · App. 18/388,885 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Sequence recommendation method based on extracting and modeling of complex multi-mode user interests

Inventors: Dongjing Wang (Hangzhou, CN); Xin Zhang (Hangzhou, CN); Dongjin Yu (Hangzhou, CN); Zhengzhe Xiang (Hangzhou, CN); Jianjiang Chen (Hangzhou, CN)
Assignees: HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY; HDU BINJIANG RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
G06N3/086G06N3/098
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Patent No.
US 12688431
App. No.
18/388,885
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sequence recommendation method based on extraction and modeling of complex multi-mode user interests is provided, including: obtaining long-term and short-term embedding sequences; obtaining updated long-term and short-term embedding sequences through the long-term and short-term embedding sequences; with embedding vectors of last items in the updated long-term and short-term embedding sequences as long-term and short-term dynamic interests of a user, obtaining long-term and short-term static interests of the user through weighted calculation; concatenating the long-term and short-term dynamic interests and the long-term and short-term static interests, and performing nonlinear change to obtain long-term and short-term evolutionary interests of the user; obtaining a dynamic interest, a static interest and an evolutionary interest of the user through element-wise summation; performing weighted summation to obtain a fused user interest; calculating a product of the fused interest with embedding of each item as a recommendation score of each item.

Claims (1067)

1 . A sequence recommendation method based on extracting and modeling of complex multi-mode user interests, comprising:

Step 1, acquiring a historical item interaction sequence of a user, and obtaining a long-term embedding sequence

F

l

=

(

f

l

1

,

f

l

2

,

,

f

l

m

)

and a short-term embedding sequence

F

s

=

(

f

s

1

,

f

s

2

,

,

f

s

n

)

through a self-learning item embedding matrix, where m>n;

Step 2, inputting the long-term embedding sequence and the short-term embedding sequence into two independent multi-head self-attention modules, respectively, to obtain an updated long-term embedding sequence and an updated short-term embedding sequence;

Step 3, with an embedding vector of a last item in the updated long-term embedding sequence as a long-term dynamic interest of the user, calculating attention weights of the updated long-term embedding sequence to the embedding vector of the last item, and performing weighted summation to obtain a long-term static interest of the user, and similarly, obtaining a short-term dynamic interest and a short-term static interest based on the updated short-term embedding sequence, wherein:

the long-term dynamic interest

p

l

d

of the user is the embedding vector

e

^

l

m

of the last item in the updated long-term embedding sequence

E

^

l

=

(

e

^

l

1

,

e

^

l

2

,

,

e

^

l

m

)

,

that is, the long-term dynamic interest is

p

l

d

=

e

^

l

m

,

and the long-term static interest is defined as:

p

l

x

=

i

=

1

m

α

i

e

^

l

i

α

i

=

exp

(

e

^

ι

m

T

Re

LU

(

W

l

e

^

l

i

)

)

j

{

1

,

2

,

,

m

}

exp

(

e

ˆ

l

m

T

Re

LU

(

W

l

e

^

l

j

)

)

where W l ∈ (o×d′)×(o×d′) is a parameter to be trained, ReLU is an activation function, and

e

^

l

m

the embedding vector of the last item;

with an embedding vector

e

^

s

n

of a last item in the updated short-term embedding sequence

E

^

s

=

(

e

^

s

1

,

e

^

s

2

,

,

e

^

s

n

)

as a short-term dynamic interest

p

s

d

of the user, calculating attention weights of the updated short-term embedding sequence Ê s to the embedding vector

e

^

s

n

of the last item, and performing weighted summation to obtain a short-term static interest

p

s

x

of the user, specifically:

the short-term dynamic interest

p

s

d

and the short-term static interest

p

s

x

are obtained based on the short-term embedding sequence Ê s :

p

s

d

=

e

^

s

n

p

s

x

=

i

=

1

n

β

i

e

^

s

i

β

i

=

exp

(

e

^

s

n

T

Re

LU

(

W

s

e

^

s

i

)

)

j

{

1

,

2

,

,

n

}

exp

(

e

ˆ

s

n

T

Re

LU

(

W

s

e

ˆ

s

j

)

)

where W s ∈ (o×d′)×(o×d′) is a parameter to be trained;

Step 4, concatenating the long-term dynamic interest

p

l

d

and the long-term static interest

p

l

x

,

and performing nonlinear change to obtain a long-term evolutionary interest

p

l

y

of the user;

and similarly, obtaining a short-term evolutionary interest

p

s

y

of the user based on the short-term dynamic interest

p

s

d

and the short-term static interest

p

s

x

;

Step 5, obtaining a dynamic interest, a static interest and an evolutionary interest of the user through element-wise summation, wherein:

the dynamic interest of the user is obtained through element-wise summation of the long-term dynamic interest and the short-term dynamic interest;

the static interest of the user is obtained through element-wise summation of the long-term static interest and the short-term static interest;

the evolutionary interest of the user is obtained through element-wise summation of the long-term evolutionary interest and the short-term evolutionary interest;

Step 6, calculating attention weights of the dynamic interest, the static interest and the evolutionary interest to the embedding vector of the last item, and performing weighted summation to obtain a fused user interest;

Step 7, calculating a product of the fused user interest with embedding of each item as a recommendation score of each item, and recommending top items with highest scores for the user.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein in Step 1, the historical item interaction sequence of the user is expressed as H=(h 1 , h 2 , . . . , h t ), where h i is an item corresponding to an i-th interaction behavior; a long-term sequence is a latest

H

l

=

(

h

l

1

,

h

l

2

,

,

h

l

m

)

with a length of m, and a short-term sequence is a latest sequence

H

s

=

(

h

s

1

,

h

s

2

,

,

h

s

n

)

with a length of n; based on a self-learning item embedding matrix F∈ k×d , items involved in the sequences are embedded to obtain a long-term embedding sequence

F

l

=

(

f

l

1

,

f

l

2

,

,

f

l

m

)

and a short-term embedding sequence

F

s

=

(

f

s

1

,

f

s

2

,

,

f

s

n

)

,

where k indicates a number of kinds of all items in all sequences, where

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l

m

×

d

,

F

s

n

×

d

,

f

l

i

d

,

f

s

i

d

,

and d indicates a vector embedding dimension.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein in Step 2, the updated long-term embedding sequence Ê l is defined as:

E

^

l

=

(

g

^

l

1

,

g

^

l

2

,

,

g

^

l

m

)

=

(

e

^

l

1

,

e

^

l

2

,

,

e

^

l

m

)

where

e

^

l

i

is an embedding representation of a corresponding item i after being updated by an attention mechanism, and

g

^

l

j

m

×

d

is an embedding sequence obtained by a j-th attention head, which is defined as:

g

ˆ

l

j

=

softmax

(

A

j

B

j

T

d

/

o

)

C

i

where

A

j

=

G

l

W

A

j

,

B

j

=

G

l

W

B

j

,

C

j

=

G

l

W

C

j

,

G

l

=

(

g

l

1

,

g

l

2

,

,

g

l

m

)

is a long-term embedding sequence after being updated in position,

g

l

i

=

f

l

i

+

pos

l

i

is an embedding representation of the item i after being updated in position,

f

l

i

is an initial embedding representation of the item i, and

pos

l

i

d

is a self-learning position vector of the item i,

where

W

A

j

d

×

d

,

W

B

j

d

×

d

and

W

C

j

d

×

d

are three parameter matrices.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein in Step 4, the long-term evolutionary interest of the user is defined as:

p

l

y

=

R

e

L

U

(

W

l

y

(

p

l

d

p

l

x

)

)

where

p

l

d

is the long-term dynamic interest,

p

l

x

is the long-term static interest, (⋅|⋅) is a concatenation operation, and

W

l

y

(

o

×

d

)

×

(

2

×

o

×

d

)

is a parameter to be trained;

the short-term evolutionary interest of the user is defined as:

p

s

y

=

R

e

L

U

(

W

s

x

(

p

s

d

p

s

x

)

)

.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein in Step 5, the dynamic interest p d of the user is defined as:

p

d

=

p

l

d

p

s

d

,

where ⊕ indicates element-wise addition,

p

l

d

is the long-term dynamic interest, and

p

s

d

is the short-term dynamic interest;

the static interest p x of the user is defined as:

p

x

=

p

l

x

p

s

x

,

where ⊕ indicates element-wise addition,

p

l

x

is the long-term static interest, and

p

s

x

is the short-term static interest;

the evolutionary interest p y of the user is defined as:

p

y

=

p

l

y

p

s

y

,

where ⊕ indicates element-wise addition,

p

l

y

is the long-term evolutionary interest, and

p

s

y

is the short-term evolutionary interest.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein in Step 6, the fused user interest is defined as:

p

=

W

r

(

α

p

p

d

+

α

x

p

x

+

α

y

p

y

)

α

p

=

exp

(

e

^

l

m

Re

LU

(

W

f

p

d

)

)

exp

(

e

^

l

m

Re

LU

(

W

f

p

d

)

)

+

exp

(

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^

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m

Re

LU

(

W

f

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x

)

)

+

exp

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e

^

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m

Re

LU

(

W

f

p

y

)

)

α

x

=

exp

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e

^

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m

Re

LU

(

W

f

p

x

)

)

exp

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Re

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(

W

f

p

d

)

)

+

exp

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Re

LU

(

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f

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)

)

+

exp

(

e

^

l

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Re

LU

(

W

f

p

y

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)

α

y

=

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^

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m

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LU

(

W

f

p

y

)

)

exp

(

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^

l

m

Re

LU

(

W

f

p

d

)

)

+

exp

(

e

^

l

m

Re

LU

(

W

f

p

x

)

)

+

exp

(

e

^

l

m

Re

LU

(

W

f

p

y

)

)

where W r ∈ d×(o×d′) is a parameter to be trained, p d is the dynamic interest, p x is the static interest, p y is the evolutionary interest, and

e

^

l

m

is the embedding vector of the last item.