检验推荐模型解耦表示与可解释性的关系,发现解耦提升可解释性但不保证效果提升。
Are Representation Disentanglement and Interpretability Linked in Recommendation Models? A Critical Review and Reproducibility Study
- 复现5个主流推荐模型在4个数据集上的表现,量化解耦程度
- 发现解耦与可解释性强相关,但与推荐效果无必然联系
- 开源代码和结果,支持后续可复现研究
无监督学习中的解耦表示常被认为能提升推荐系统的可解释性,通过使各特征表示更独立,便于归因。然而,这种可解释性优势多为定性分析,且解耦对推荐性能的影响被忽视。本文复现了五个知名推荐模型在四个数据集上的推荐性能、表示解耦度和可解释性,并量化解耦程度,探究其与推荐有效性和可解释性的关联。结果显示:尽管部分研究声称解耦可同时提升效果与可解释性,但本研究发现解耦与推荐有效性无必然联系,却与表示可解释性密切相关。所有代码与结果已公开于 https://github.com/edervishaj/disentanglement-interpretability-recsys。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations has been closely tied to enhancing the representation intepretability of Recommender Systems (RSs). This has been achieved by making the representation of individual features more distinctly separated, so that it is easier to attribute the contribution of features to the model's predictions. However, such advantages in interpretability and feature attribution have mainly been explored qualitatively. Moreover, the effect of disentanglement on the model's recommendation performance has been largely overlooked. In this work, we reproduce the recommendation performance, representation disentanglement and representation interpretability of five well-known recommendation models on four RS datasets. We quantify disentanglement and investigate the link of disentanglement with recommendation effectiveness and representation interpretability. While several existing work in RSs have proposed disentangled representations as a gateway to improved effectiveness and interpretability, our findings show that disentanglement is not necessarily related to effectiveness but is closely related to representation interpretability. Our code and results are publicly available at https://github.com/edervishaj/disentanglement-interpretability-recsys.
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