提出可实时更新的冷启动推荐方法,解决新商品缺乏用户互动数据的问题。
Online Item Cold-Start Recommendation with Popularity-Aware Meta-Learning
- 按热度分组数据,动态调整行为与内容特征权重。
- 在多个公开数据集上优于现有方法,尤其对低热度商品效果显著。
- 适合电商和短视频等实时推荐场景,计算开销小。
随着电子商务和短视频的发展,在线推荐系统需实时捕捉用户兴趣并更新新商品。冷启动问题因交互稀疏严重影响推荐效果。尽管基于微调或知识迁移的方法在离线推荐中表现良好,但在流式数据场景下因训练方式、计算开销和时间限制难以应用。为此,我们提出一种模型无关的推荐算法PAM(Popularity-Aware Meta-learning),通过预设物品热度阈值将输入数据划分为不同元学习任务。模型根据物品热度水平,区分并重置行为特征与内容特征的作用,从而适应冷启动样本的推荐。该任务固定设计显著降低额外计算与存储成本。此外,PAM引入数据增强及专为低热度任务设计的自监督损失,利用高热度样本的洞察弥补冷启动样本监督不足。实验结果表明,在多个公开数据集上,该方法在流式数据场景下的冷启动推荐中优于其他基线方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
With the rise of e-commerce and short videos, online recommender systems that can capture users' interests and update new items in real-time play an increasingly important role. In both online and offline recommendation systems, the cold-start problem caused by interaction sparsity has been impacting the effectiveness of recommendations for cold-start items. Many cold-start scheme based on fine-tuning or knowledge transferring shows excellent performance on offline recommendation. Yet, these schemes are infeasible for online recommendation on streaming data pipelines due to different training method, computational overhead and time constraints. Inspired by the above questions, we propose a model-agnostic recommendation algorithm called Popularity-Aware Meta-learning (PAM), to address the item cold-start problem under streaming data settings. PAM divides the incoming data into different meta-learning tasks by predefined item popularity thresholds. The model can distinguish and reweight behavior-related and content-related features in each task based on their different roles in different popularity levels, thus adapting to recommendations for cold-start samples. These task-fixing design significantly reduces additional computation and storage costs compared to offline methods. Furthermore, PAM also introduced data augmentation and an additional self-supervised loss specifically designed for low-popularity tasks, leveraging insights from high-popularity samples. This approach effectively mitigates the issue of inadequate supervision due to the scarcity of cold-start samples. Experimental results across multiple public datasets demonstrate the superiority of our approach over other baseline methods in addressing cold-start challenges in online streaming data scenarios.
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