Logic Tensor Networks for Top-N Recommendation

Despite being studied for more than twenty years, state-of-the-art recommendation systems still suffer from important drawbacks which limit their usage in real-world scenarios. Among the well-known issues of recommender systems, there are data sparsity and the cold-start problem. These limitations can be addressed by providing some background knowledge to the model to compensate for the scarcity of data. Following this intuition, we propose to use Logic Tensor Networks (LTNs) to tackle the top-n item recommendation problem. In particular, we show how LTNs can be used to easily and effectively inject commonsense recommendation knowledge inside a recommender system. We evaluate our method on MindReader, a knowledge graph-based movie recommendation dataset containing plentiful side information. In particular, we perform an experiment to show how the benefits of the knowledge increase with the sparsity of the dataset. Eventually, a comparison with a standard Matrix Factorization approach reveals that our model is able to reach and, in many cases, outperform state-of-the-art performance.