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DeepApp: characterizing dynamic user interests for mobile application recommendation

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It is extremely difficult to find one app in app stores that exactly meets the needs of users with the boom in mobile applications nowadays. Although numerous app recommendation services are available, they mainly employ static data (e.g., information of installed apps) and rarely consider the dynamics of user interests. In this paper, we assume that user interest consists of two components: short-term temporal interests and long-term preferences, and we propose one general framework, namely DeepApp, to enhance app recommendation performance. In DeepApp, on the one hand, we use one linear model to characterize the stable user-app associations; on the other hand, we employ the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model to capture the evolution of interests based on the usage patterns of mobile apps. Finally, the Wide &Deep model is applied to fuse the effects of these two types of interests, long-term preferences and short-term temporal interests, by learning the latent interaction between linear and nonlinear features. DeepApp was evaluated on a large-scale dataset, with 4,775,293 users and 238,206 mobile apps. DeepApp achieves a significant performance gain compared with baselines (more than 6% in terms of NDCG@6 over probability matrix factorization (PMF), neural collaborative filtering (NCF), and neural tensor factorization (NTF)). This demonstrates that the integration of dynamic user interests is beneficial for mobile app recommendations.

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The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to commercial permission but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018AAA0100500), by the natural science foundation of China under grant No. 61902320, and by the fundamental research funds for the central universities under grant No. 31020180QD140.

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    Yunji Liang, Lei Liu, Zhu Wang & Bin Guo

  2. Fowler College of Business, San Diego State University, San Diego, 92182, California, USA

    Luwen Huangfu

  3. Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA), San Diego State University, San Diego, 92182, California, USA

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Y.L. and B.G. proposed and formulated this research problem. Y.L., L.L., and L.H. designed the models, processed the dataset and conducted the experiment. Y.L., L.H. and Z.W. wrote this manuscript. All authors reviewed this manuscript.

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Liang, Y., Liu, L., Huangfu, L. et al. DeepApp: characterizing dynamic user interests for mobile application recommendation. World Wide Web 26, 2623–2645 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-023-01161-3

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