解决多模态推荐中缺失数据与偏见问题,提升推荐准确率与公平性。
Generating with Fairness: A Modality-Diffused Counterfactual Framework for Incomplete Multimodal Recommendations
- 通过模态扩散生成框架精准补全缺失模态数据
- 在三个真实数据集上同时提升准确率与公平性指标
- 适合关注推荐系统公平性与数据补全的研究者
不完整场景是多模态推荐(MMRec)中普遍且现实的挑战,因各种原因导致部分物品模态缺失。近期工作尝试从不完整数据中挖掘通用结构以提升推荐准确率,但仍存在两大关键缺口:1)由于难以捕捉模态分布,生成缺失数据精度不足;2)被忽视的可见性偏见——缺少模态的物品更易被忽略,因系统优先考虑多模态数据而非用户偏好对齐,严重损害推荐公平性。为此,本文提出新颖的模态扩散反事实框架(MoDiCF),包含两个核心模块:模态扩散数据补全模块,利用定制化多模态生成框架从学习到的模态特定分布空间中迭代生成并优化缺失数据;反事实多模态推荐模块,基于因果视角有效缓解可见性偏见的负面影响,确保推荐公平性。两者协同解决上述两大难题,显著提升推荐准确性与公平性。在三个真实世界数据集上的大量实验验证了MoDiCF的优越性能。代码与处理后的数据集已公开于https://github.com/JinLi-i/MoDiCF。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Incomplete scenario is a prevalent, practical, yet challenging setting in Multimodal Recommendations (MMRec), where some item modalities are missing due to various factors. Recently, a few efforts have sought to improve the recommendation accuracy by exploring generic structures from incomplete data. However, two significant gaps persist: 1) the difficulty in accurately generating missing data due to the limited ability to capture modality distributions; and 2) the critical but overlooked visibility bias, where items with missing modalities are more likely to be disregarded due to the prioritization of items' multimodal data over user preference alignment. This bias raises serious concerns about the fair treatment of items. To bridge these two gaps, we propose a novel Modality-Diffused Counterfactual (MoDiCF) framework for incomplete multimodal recommendations. MoDiCF features two key modules: a novel modality-diffused data completion module and a new counterfactual multimodal recommendation module. The former, equipped with a particularly designed multimodal generative framework, accurately generates and iteratively refines missing data from learned modality-specific distribution spaces. The latter, grounded in the causal perspective, effectively mitigates the negative causal effects of visibility bias and thus assures fairness in recommendations. Both modules work collaboratively to address the two aforementioned significant gaps for generating more accurate and fair results. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate the superior performance of MoDiCF in terms of both recommendation accuracy and fairness. The code and processed datasets are released at https://github.com/JinLi-i/MoDiCF.
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