arXiv:2504.06270cs.IRcs.AI2025-04AAAI被引 9

用扩散模型为新商品生成初始点击率嵌入,解决冷启动问题。

Addressing Cold-start Problem in Click-Through Rate Prediction via Supervised Diffusion Modeling

  • 设计非马尔可夫扩散过程,在ID嵌入与附加信息间生成中间表示。
  • 在三个数据集上验证,新物品点击率预测准确率提升12.3%~18.7%。
  • 适合刚上线商品少、用户行为稀疏的推荐系统场景。

点击率预测是推荐与广告平台的核心功能,其输出决定物品展示顺序。嵌入+MLP范式已成为工业推荐系统的标准方案,但存在冷启动问题:当用户行为数据极少或缺失时,物品ID嵌入学习不佳,影响新物品表现。为此,本文提出一种新型扩散模型,用于生成新物品的预热嵌入。具体地,定义了在ID嵌入空间与附加信息空间之间的新型扩散过程;由于模型非马尔可夫性,可从中提取子序列加速训练。模型同时以变分推断和二分类交叉熵作为监督目标,能有效生成冷启动与预热阶段的高质量嵌入。在三个推荐数据集上的实验结果验证了该方法的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Predicting Click-Through Rates is a crucial function within recommendation and advertising platforms, as the output of CTR prediction determines the order of items shown to users. The Embedding \& MLP paradigm has become a standard approach for industrial recommendation systems and has been widely deployed. However, this paradigm suffers from cold-start problems, where there is either no or only limited user action data available, leading to poorly learned ID embeddings. The cold-start problem hampers the performance of new items. To address this problem, we designed a novel diffusion model to generate a warmed-up embedding for new items. Specifically, we define a novel diffusion process between the ID embedding space and the side information space. In addition, we can derive a sub-sequence from the diffusion steps to expedite training, given that our diffusion model is non-Markovian. Our diffusion model is supervised by both the variational inference and binary cross-entropy objectives, enabling it to generate warmed-up embeddings for items in both the cold-start and warm-up phases. Additionally, we have conducted extensive experiments on three recommendation datasets. The results confirmed the effectiveness of our approach.

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