Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital information sites is affecting our well-being and can lead to serious problems in the long term. In this paper, we present a sequential recommendation framework that uses deep reinforcement learning to capture the users' short and long-term interests, with a proposed use case of blending social news with recommended micro-learning informative news items that can help users derive useful outcomes out of their presence online.
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