Reinforcement Learning Architecture for Web Recommendations

  • Authors:
  • Nick Golovin;Erhard Rahm

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ITCC '04 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2 - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A large number of websites use online recommendationsto make web users interested in their products orcontent. Since no single recommendation approach isalways best it is necessary to effectively combine differentrecommendation algorithms. This paper describes thearchitecture of a rule-based recommendation systemwhich combines recommendations from different algorithmsin a single recommendation database. Reinforcementlearning is applied to continuously evaluate theusers' acceptance of presented recommendations and toadapt the recommendations to reflect the users' interests.We describe the general architecture of the system, thedatabase structure, the learning algorithm and the testsetting for assessing the quality of the approach.