arXiv:2502.16040cs.IRcs.CL2025-02被引 9

通过扩展推理提升推荐系统特征质量,显著改善用户偏好捕捉。

Inference Computation Scaling for Feature Augmentation in Recommendation Systems

  • 采用链式思维推理扩展生成更多详细特征
  • NDCG@10提升12%,特征数量与精确度同步增强
  • 适合关注个性化推荐与推理能力优化的研究者

大语言模型已成为推荐系统中特征增强的有效手段。然而,依赖快速推理的现有方法常因特征覆盖不全和描述不够精准,难以捕捉细粒度用户偏好,制约整体性能。受数学与编码任务中推理缩放成功的启发,我们探索推理扩展是否能缓解上述问题。实验表明,推理扩展显著提升推荐性能,NDCG@10提升12%。这一提升源于特征数量与具体性的双重增强:使用扩展链式思维(CoT)推理的模型生成了更多详尽、精准的特征,深入揭示用户偏好,突破快速推理局限。进一步分析发现,模型选择与搜索策略对特征丰富性与多样性具有决定性影响。这是首个将推理缩放应用于推荐系统特征增强的工作,实现了推理任务进展向个性化推荐的迁移。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models have become a powerful method for feature augmentation in recommendation systems. However, existing approaches relying on quick inference often suffer from incomplete feature coverage and insufficient specificity in feature descriptions, limiting their ability to capture fine-grained user preferences and undermining overall performance. Motivated by the recent success of inference scaling in math and coding tasks, we explore whether scaling inference can address these limitations and enhance feature quality. Our experiments show that scaling inference leads to significant improvements in recommendation performance, with a 12% increase in NDCG@10. The gains can be attributed to two key factors: feature quantity and specificity. In particular, models using extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning generate a greater number of detailed and precise features, offering deeper insights into user preferences and overcoming the limitations of quick inference. We further investigate the factors influencing feature quantity, revealing that model choice and search strategy play critical roles in generating a richer and more diverse feature set. This is the first work to apply inference scaling to feature augmentation in recommendation systems, bridging advances in reasoning tasks to enhance personalized recommendation.

推荐系统特征增强推理缩放LLM

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