Music Playlist Generation Based on Graph Exploration Using Reinforcement Learning

Abstract

Spreading of music streaming platforms that use playlists to make recommendations, automatic playlist generation has been actively researched. Recently, it has been reported that playlists that have high diversity and smooth track transitions increase user satisfaction. Our previous method that used a two-dimensional space as a reinforcement learning environment has achieved these demands, but there remains the problem that the content of multi-dimensional acoustic features cannot be retained accurately. To solve this problem, in this paper, we present a new method of music playlist generation based on reinforcement learning using a graph structure constructed from multi-dimensional acoustic features directly. The new playlist generation provides greater diversity and smoother track transitions than the previous method. Experimental results are shown for verifying the effectiveness of the proposal method.