arXiv:2412.18168cs.IR2024-12被引 6

用伪排名提升推荐系统,让模型更接近真实用户偏好。

From Pairwise to Ranking: Climbing the Ladder to Ideal Collaborative Filtering with Pseudo-Ranking

  • 引入伪排名机制,通过噪声注入生成替代真实排序
  • 新提出的排序损失函数有效利用排名信息,性能显著提升
  • 具备梯度置信度检测,对错误伪排名有鲁棒性

理想协同过滤模型应基于用户对所有物品的完整排序进行学习,以实现最优的Top-K推荐。然而现实中缺乏完整排序数据,主流方法依赖成对损失近似排序,导致性能差距巨大。本文基于多分类序数分析,揭示了成对近似与理想情况之间的必然差距。为克服两大挑战——真实数据无完整排序、缺乏能处理排序信息的损失函数——我们提出伪排名范式(PRP):通过噪声注入机制生成伪排名作为监督信号;同时设计新型排序损失函数,有效处理排序信息。为增强对伪排名误差的鲁棒性,该损失函数集成梯度置信度机制,自动识别并抑制异常梯度。在四个真实数据集上的大量实验表明,PRP显著优于现有先进方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Intuitively, an ideal collaborative filtering (CF) model should learn from users' full rankings over all items to make optimal top-K recommendations. Due to the absence of such full rankings in practice, most CF models rely on pairwise loss functions to approximate full rankings, resulting in an immense performance gap. In this paper, we provide a novel analysis using the multiple ordinal classification concept to reveal the inevitable gap between a pairwise approximation and the ideal case. However, bridging the gap in practice encounters two formidable challenges: (1) none of the real-world datasets contains full ranking information; (2) there does not exist a loss function that is capable of consuming ranking information. To overcome these challenges, we propose a pseudo-ranking paradigm (PRP) that addresses the lack of ranking information by introducing pseudo-rankings supervised by an original noise injection mechanism. Additionally, we put forward a new ranking loss function designed to handle ranking information effectively. To ensure our method's robustness against potential inaccuracies in pseudo-rankings, we equip the ranking loss function with a gradient-based confidence mechanism to detect and mitigate abnormal gradients. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate that PRP significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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