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SlateQ: A Tractable Decomposition for Reinforcement Learning with Recommendation Sets

Eugene Ie
Vihan Jain
Jing Wang
Sanmit Narvekar
Ritesh Agarwal
Rui Wu
Heng-Tze Cheng
Tushar Chandra
Craig Boutilier
Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19), Macau, China (2019), pp. 2592-2599
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Abstract

Reinforcement learning (RL) methods for recommender systems optimize recommendations for long-term user engagement. However, since users are often presented with slates of multiple items---which may have interacting effects on user choice---methods are required to deal with the combinatorics of the RL action space. We develop SlateQ, a decomposition of value-based temporal-difference and Q-learning that renders RL tractable with slates. Under mild assumptions on user choice behavior, we show that the long-term value (LTV) of a slate can be decomposed into a tractable function of its component item-wise LTVs. We demonstrate our methods in simulation, and validate the scalability and effectiveness of decomposed TD-learning on YouTube.

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