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Empowering recommender systems using automatically generated Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning

11 Jul 2023arXiv:2307.04996archive 2025-07-28

Ghanshyam Verma, Shovon Sengupta, Simon Simanta, Huan Chen, Janos A. Perge, Devishree Pillai, John P. McCrae, Paul Buitelaar

Personalized recommender systems play a crucial role in direct marketing, particularly in financial services, where delivering relevant content can enhance customer engagement and promote informed decision-making. This study explores interpretable knowledge graph (KG)-based recommender systems by proposing two distinct approaches for personalized article recommendations within a multinational financial services firm. The first approach leverages Reinforcement Learning (RL) to traverse a KG constructed from both structured (tabular) and unstructured (textual) data, enabling interpretability through Path Directed Reasoning (PDR). The second approach employs the XGBoost algorithm, with post-hoc explainability techniques such as SHAP and ELI5 to enhance transparency. By integrating machine learning with automatically generated KGs, our methods not only improve recommendation accuracy but also provide interpretable insights, facilitating more informed decision-making in customer relationship management.

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