Behavior-Aware English Reading Article Recommendation System Using Online Distilled Deep Q-Learning

Abstract

Due to the differences of students' English proficiency and the rapid changes in reading interests, online personalized English reading recommendation is a highly challenging problem. Although some works have been proposed to address the dynamic change of recommendation, there are two issues with these methods. First, it only considers whether students have read the recommended articles. Second, these methods often fail to capture the real-time changing interests of users. To address the above challenges, a deep Q-network based recommendation framework was proposed. The authors further use the user's behavior and scores as reward information to get more user's feedback. In addition, a personalized adaptive module was introduced to capture the short-term interests on the fly and utilized the consistent loss of KL divergence to distill the knowledge from the online model. Extensive experiments on the offline and online dataset in the IWiLL website demonstrate the superior performance of the method.