update the embeddings from last time point to the first time point

[LeiBAI]

Hello,

Thanks for the work and codes which I enjoy a lot. I have a question about updating the user/item embeddings.
I noticed that the user/item embeddings are global variables. While updating them among one epoch can reflect the temporal dynamics, how to explain updating the embeddings again and again.
To explain my concern: Let us define the whole time period in the dataset as [0, t1, t2, t3, ..., T], we will need to update the user/item embeddings following the time sequence from 0 to t1, ..., to T. However, we normally need to repeat the process for multiple epochs, which normally means we have to restart from T to 0 again. Will this cause any training problems?

Thanks and best regards

Lei

[SungMinCho]

Hello. I would also like to know about this. What are the intuitions behind running multiple epochs over the same time period? What is changing (or rather, "persisting") over the course of repetition (RNN weights and such?)? Thanks!!

[srijankr]

@SungMinCho It is used to learn model weights and embeddings.