Tag-Aware Recommender System Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Recently, the application of deep reinforcement learning in the recommender system is flourishing and stands out by overcoming drawbacks of traditional methods and achieving high recommendation quality. The dynamics, long-term returns, and sparse data issues in the recommender system have been effectively solved. But the application of deep reinforcement learning brings problems of interpretability, overfitting, complex reward function design, and user cold start. This study proposed a tag-aware recommender system based on deep reinforcement learning without complex function design, taking advantage of tags to make up for the interpretability problems existing in the recommender system. Our experiment is carried out on the MovieLens dataset. The result shows that the DRL-based recommender system is superior than traditional algorithms in minimum error, and the application of tags have little effect on accuracy when making up for interpretability. In addition, the DRL-based recommender system has excellent performance on user cold start problems.