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Integrating the ACT-R Framework with Collaborative Filtering for Explainable Sequential Music Recommendation

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Marta Moscati (Johannes Kepler University Linz), Christian Wallmann (Johannes Kepler University Linz), Markus Reiter-Haas (Graz University of Technology), Dominik Kowald (Know-Center GmbH and Graz University of Technology), Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology) and Markus Schedl (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

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Abstract

Music listening sessions often consist of sequences including repeating tracks. Modeling such relistening behavior with models of human memory has been proven effective in predicting the next track of a session. However, these models intrinsically lack the capability of recommending novel tracks that the target user has not listened to in the past. Collaborative filtering strategies, on the contrary, provide novel recommendations by leveraging past collective behaviors but are often limited in their ability to provide explanations. To narrow this gap, we propose four hybrid algorithms that integrate collaborative filtering with the cognitive architecture ACT-R. We compare their performance in terms of accuracy, novelty, diversity, and popularity bias, to baselines of different types, including pure ACT-R, kNN-based, and neural-networks-based approaches. We show that the proposed algorithms are able to achieve the best performances in terms of novelty and diversity, and simultaneously achieve a higher accuracy of recommendation with respect to pure ACT-R models. Furthermore, we illustrate how the proposed models can provide explainable recommendations.

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