News Recommendation

Implementation of several news recommendation methods in Pytorch.

Support multi-GPU training and testing.

WARNING: Multi-GPU training and testing only work on Linux because currently torch.distributed only support Linux.

Requirements

• python
• pytorch
• numpy
• scikit-learn
• nltk
• tqdm

You can create a conda virtual environment named nr with the provided env.yaml.

conda env create -f env.yaml			# Maybe only work on Linux

Usage

• Clone this repository

  git clone https://github.com/yflyl613/NewsRecommendation.git
  cd NewsRecommendation

• Prepare data

  A scirpt download_data.sh is provided to download and unzip all the required data. It will create a new folder data/ under NewsRecommendation/.

  # In NewsRecommendation/
  chmod +x download_data.sh
  ./download_data.sh

• Start training

  A script demo.sh is provied for model training and testing, in which you can modify parameters for the experiment. Please refer to parameters.py for more details.

  # In NewsRecommendation/data/
  cd ../src
  chmod +x demo.sh
  
  # train
  ./demo.sh train
  
  # test
  ./demo.sh test <checkpoint name>
  # E.g. ./demo.sh test epoch-1.pt

Results on MIND-small validation set^[1]

• NAML^[2]

  News information	AUC	MRR	nDCG@5	nDCG@10	Configuration
  subcategory category title	66.24	32.08	35.36	41.56	batch size 128 (32*4) 5 epochs lr 3e-4

• NRMS^[3]

  News information	AUC	MRR	nDCG@5	nDCG@10	Configuration
  title	66.61	31.86	35.19	41.46	batch size 128 (32*4) 4 epochs lr 3e-4

Please feel free to contact me by opening an issue if you have any problem or find a bug :)

Reference

[1] Fangzhao Wu, Ying Qiao, Jiun-Hung Chen, Chuhan Wu, Tao Qi, Jianxun Lian, Danyang Liu, Xing Xie, Jianfeng Gao, Winnie Wu and Ming Zhou. MIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation. ACL 2020.

[2] Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Mingxiao An, Jianqiang Huang, Yongfeng Huang, and Xing Xie. Neural News Recommendation with Attentive Multi-View Learning. IJCAI. 2019.

[3] Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Suyu Ge, Tao Qi, Yongfeng Huang, and Xing Xie. Neural News Recommendation with Multi-Head Self-Attention. EMNLP-IJCNLP. 2019.