arXiv:2502.06097cs.IRcs.AI2025-02中稿 · WWW 2025 Industry …被引 16

通过邻居列表提升生成重排,让推荐更优。

NLGR: Utilizing Neighbor Lists for Generative Rerank in Personalized Recommendation Systems

  • 用邻居列表增强生成器训练,看清优化方向。
  • 非自回归采样方法可灵活跳转至任意邻近列表。
  • 在美团外卖平台部署有效,适合工业级推荐系统。

重排在现代多阶段推荐系统中至关重要,用于重新排列初始推荐列表。现有方法采用评价器-生成器范式:生成器生成可行序列,评价器根据估计的列表效用选择最优序列。但当前方法存在两个问题:一是评价器与生成器目标不一致,导致生成器倾向于拟合曝光分布的局部最优解,而非组合空间全局优化;二是逐项生成策略忽略后续项信息,难以达到全局最优。为此,我们提出利用邻居列表进行生成重排的模型(NLGR),旨在提升生成器在组合空间中的表现。NLGR沿用评价器-生成器范式,改进生成器的训练与生成方式。具体而言,通过组合空间中的邻居列表增强训练过程,使生成器感知相对得分并明确优化方向。此外,提出一种基于采样的非自回归生成方法,使生成器能从当前列表灵活跳转至任意邻居列表。在公开及工业数据集上的大量实验验证了NLGR的有效性,已在美团外卖平台成功部署。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reranking plays a crucial role in modern multi-stage recommender systems by rearranging the initial ranking list. Due to the inherent challenges of combinatorial search spaces, some current research adopts an evaluator-generator paradigm, with a generator generating feasible sequences and an evaluator selecting the best sequence based on the estimated list utility. However, these methods still face two issues. Firstly, due to the goal inconsistency problem between the evaluator and generator, the generator tends to fit the local optimal solution of exposure distribution rather than combinatorial space optimization. Secondly, the strategy of generating target items one by one is difficult to achieve optimality because it ignores the information of subsequent items. To address these issues, we propose a utilizing Neighbor Lists model for Generative Reranking (NLGR), which aims to improve the performance of the generator in the combinatorial space. NLGR follows the evaluator-generator paradigm and improves the generator's training and generating methods. Specifically, we use neighbor lists in combination space to enhance the training process, making the generator perceive the relative scores and find the optimization direction. Furthermore, we propose a novel sampling-based non-autoregressive generation method, which allows the generator to jump flexibly from the current list to any neighbor list. Extensive experiments on public and industrial datasets validate NLGR's effectiveness and we have successfully deployed NLGR on the Meituan food delivery platform.

推荐系统生成重排邻居列表非自回归

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