An Improved Dual-Channel Deep Q-Network Model for Tourism Recommendation

Tourism recommendation results are affected by many factors. Traditional recommendation methods have problems such as low recommendation accuracy and lack of personalization due to sparse data. This article uses implicit features such as contextual information, time-series travel trajectories, and comment data to address these issues. First, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network is introduced as the model basis, and deals with the input data of the model such as contextual information, scenic spot information, and tourist comments and so on for feature extraction. Then, the online behavior and long-term interest preference of users are analyzed, using positive feedback and negative feedback mechanism, the Deep Q-Network (DQN) value function of dual-channel mechanism is constructed. Finally, we propose a recommendation strategy, in which, a value evaluation network and a target network are proposed for each agent to learn the optimal strategy. The model is trained on the Yelp, DP, and Tourism datasets covering multiple scenarios to provide users with tourism recommendation services. Compared with baseline models such as Ultra Simplification of Graph Convolutional Networks, DQN, Actor-Critic, and Latent Factor Model, this model has an average increase of 76.61% in accuracy compared with the comparison model, and an average increase of 43.48% in the normalized discounted cumulative gain compared with the baseline model.