arXiv:2412.18082cs.IRcs.AI2024-12被引 9

用优质用户反馈做提示,解决冷启动推荐难题

Prompt Tuning for Item Cold-start Recommendation

  • 以高价值正向反馈作为提示信息,弥补语义鸿沟
  • 个性化提示网络缓解热门商品反馈主导问题
  • 在真实大平台验证,显著提升冷启动推荐效果

物品冷启动问题是在线推荐系统的关键挑战,其成败直接影响物品能否成长为热门。尽管提示学习已在自然语言处理中用于零样本或少样本任务,但现有推荐方法多依赖内容属性或文本描述进行提示,我们认为这存在两个问题:1)与推荐任务间存在语义鸿沟;2)模型偏见源于热门物品贡献了大部分正反馈,而这正是冷启动问题的核心瓶颈。为此,我们提出利用高价值正向反馈(称为巅峰反馈)作为提示信息,同时解决上述问题。实验表明,相比现有工作使用的文本描述,正向反馈更适合作为提示信息,能有效弥合语义差距。此外,我们设计了针对物品的个性化提示网络,以缓解正反馈主导带来的模型偏见。在四个真实数据集上的大量实验显示,我们的方法优于当前最优基线。此外,PROMO已在一款百万级用户规模的短视频平台成功部署,实现了冷启动场景下多项商业指标的显著提升。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The item cold-start problem is crucial for online recommender systems, as the success of the cold-start phase determines whether items can transition into popular ones. Prompt learning, a powerful technique used in natural language processing (NLP) to address zero- or few-shot problems, has been adapted for recommender systems to tackle similar challenges. However, existing methods typically rely on content-based properties or text descriptions for prompting, which we argue may be suboptimal for cold-start recommendations due to 1) semantic gaps with recommender tasks, 2) model bias caused by warm-up items contribute most of the positive feedback to the model, which is the core of the cold-start problem that hinders the recommender quality on cold-start items. We propose to leverage high-value positive feedback, termed pinnacle feedback as prompt information, to simultaneously resolve the above two problems. We experimentally prove that compared to the content description proposed in existing works, the positive feedback is more suitable to serve as prompt information by bridging the semantic gaps. Besides, we propose item-wise personalized prompt networks to encode pinnaclce feedback to relieve the model bias by the positive feedback dominance problem. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our model over state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, PROMO has been successfully deployed on a popular short-video sharing platform, a billion-user scale commercial short-video application, achieving remarkable performance gains across various commercial metrics within cold-start scenarios

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