Semantic recommendation through Reinforcement Learning and weighted meta-paths

Explainable recommendation systems, which can produce high-accuracy recommendations and help users make quick decisions, have become a hotspot in research field. Most of existing research algorithms committed to improving the accuracy of recommendation, but ignored the interpretability of recommendation. We propose a semantic recommendation algorithm through Reinforcement Learning and weighted meta-paths which analyzes and selects the meta-path, and uses Reinforcement Learning network to train the weight of meta-path. This method can effectively solve data sparsity, improve the accuracy of recommendation, and increase interpretability. Compared with the baseline method, indicators of the recommended methods for integrating Reinforcement Learning with Heterogeneous Information Networks have been greatly improved, as verified and compared on a real MovieLens 1M dataset. Experimental results prove that the algorithm can effectively improve the accuracy and interpretability of the recommendation.