arXiv:2504.01489cs.IR2025-04被引 14

让推荐模型在线追踪用户兴趣变化,实时自适应提升预测准确率。

Test-Time Alignment for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation

  • 引入测试时对齐模块,动态捕捉用户兴趣的时间变化模式。
  • 在三个数据集上显著优于现有方法,有效缓解兴趣漂移导致的性能下降。
  • 适合需要实时响应用户行为变化的在线推荐系统场景。

序列推荐在现代推荐系统中至关重要,旨在根据用户历史行为预测其下一步可能交互的项目。然而,现实场景中用户兴趣常随时间动态变化,传统模型基于静态历史数据训练,难以适应此类变化,导致测试阶段性能显著下降。最近提出的测试时训练(TTT)范式可通过利用测试阶段的无标签样本实现预训练模型的动态适应。但如何在推荐系统中有效追踪并应对用户兴趣变化仍是开放难题,核心挑战包括如何有效捕捉时间信息以及在测试阶段显式识别兴趣转变。为此,我们提出T²ARec,一种基于状态空间模型的TTT新方法,引入两个专为序列推荐设计的测试时对齐模块,有效捕捉用户兴趣分布随时间的变化。具体而言,T²ARec将绝对时间间隔与模型自适应学习间隔对齐以建模时间动态,并引入兴趣状态对齐机制,理论上保证可显式识别用户兴趣转移。这两个对齐模块支持测试阶段自监督下的高效增量参数更新,提升在线推荐的预测能力。在三个基准数据集上的广泛实验表明,T²ARec达到当前最优性能,稳健缓解了用户兴趣漂移带来的挑战。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Sequential recommendation is essential in modern recommender systems, aiming to predict the next item a user may interact with based on their historical behaviors. However, real-world scenarios are often dynamic and subject to shifts in user interests. Conventional sequential recommendation models are typically trained on static historical data, limiting their ability to adapt to such shifts and resulting in significant performance degradation during testing. Recently, Test-Time Training (TTT) has emerged as a promising paradigm, enabling pre-trained models to dynamically adapt to test data by leveraging unlabeled examples during testing. However, applying TTT to effectively track and address user interest shifts in recommender systems remains an open and challenging problem. Key challenges include how to capture temporal information effectively and explicitly identifying shifts in user interests during the testing phase. To address these issues, we propose T$^2$ARec, a novel model leveraging state space model for TTT by introducing two Test-Time Alignment modules tailored for sequential recommendation, effectively capturing the distribution shifts in user interest patterns over time. Specifically, T$^2$ARec aligns absolute time intervals with model-adaptive learning intervals to capture temporal dynamics and introduce an interest state alignment mechanism to effectively and explicitly identify the user interest shifts with theoretical guarantees. These two alignment modules enable efficient and incremental updates to model parameters in a self-supervised manner during testing, enhancing predictions for online recommendation. Extensive evaluations on three benchmark datasets demonstrate that T$^2$ARec achieves state-of-the-art performance and robustly mitigates the challenges posed by user interest shifts.

序列推荐测试时训练兴趣漂移在线学习

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