arXiv:2411.13865cs.IRcs.AI2024-11KDD

用双曲空间建模用户偏好,平衡推荐多样性与精准度。

Breaking Information Cocoons: A Hyperbolic Framework for Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Recommender Systems

  • 在双曲空间中融合文本与协同信息,更好捕捉层级结构。
  • 自动发现层次聚类,实现探索与利用的可调平衡,提升多样性11.39%。
  • 适合关注推荐系统公平性与多样性的研究者与工程师。

现代推荐系统常导致信息茧房,限制用户接触多样化内容。核心挑战在于如何在保持用户偏好调整能力的前提下,平衡内容探索与利用。理想情况下,该平衡可通过分层表示实现:深度搜索支持利用,广度搜索促进探索。然而现有方法存在两大局限:欧式方法难以刻画层级结构,而双曲方法虽擅长建模层级,却缺乏对用户与项目特征的语义理解,且缺少原则性机制来调节探索与利用。为此,我们提出HERec,一种双曲框架,有效平衡推荐系统中的探索与利用。框架包含两项关键创新:(1) 语义增强的分层机制,将丰富的文本描述与协同信息直接对齐于双曲空间。理论梯度分析表明,这种对齐充分利用了底层双曲流形结构,显著提升了用户与项目的建模精度;(2) 通过优化Dasgupta代价函数实现自动层次聚类,无需预设超参数,支持用户灵活调节探索-利用权衡。大量实验表明,HERec持续优于欧氏与双曲基线,在效用指标上最高提升5.49%,多样性指标提升11.39%,有效缓解信息茧房问题。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Modern recommender systems often create information cocoons, restricting users' exposure to diverse content. The central challenge is to balance content exploration and exploitation while allowing users to adjust their recommendation preferences. Ideally, this balance can be captured with a hierarchical representation, where depth search facilitates exploitation and breadth search enables exploration. However, existing approaches face two fundamental limitations: Euclidean methods struggle to capture hierarchical structures, while hyperbolic methods, despite their superior hierarchical modeling, lack semantic understanding of user and item profiles and fail to provide a principled mechanism for balancing exploration and exploitation. To address these challenges, we propose HERec, a hyperbolic framework that effectively balances exploration and exploitation in recommender systems. Our framework introduces two key innovations: (1) a semantic-enhanced hierarchical mechanism that aligns rich textual descriptions with collaborative information directly in hyperbolic space. Theoretical gradient analysis demonstrates that this alignment effectively leverages the underlying hyperbolic manifold structure, resulting in more accurate modeling of users and items; (2) an automatic hierarchical clustering mechanism by optimizing Dasgupta's cost, which discovers hierarchical structures without requiring predefined hyperparameters, enabling user-adjustable exploration-exploitation trade-offs. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HERec consistently outperforms both Euclidean and hyperbolic baselines, achieving up to 5.49% improvement in utility metrics and 11.39% increase in diversity metrics, effectively mitigating information cocoons.

推荐系统双曲空间信息茧房探索利用

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