arXiv:2505.16532cs.IR2025-05中稿 · ACM TOIS for publi…

解决跨域推荐中的分布偏移问题,提升模型在真实场景下的泛化能力。

Causal-Invariant Cross-Domain Out-of-Distribution Recommendation

  • 通过双层因果结构建模用户偏好,区分领域特有与共享的不变特征。
  • 在两个真实数据集上,相比现有方法在多种分布外场景下准确率显著提升。
  • 结合大模型发现混杂因子,增强因果推理能力,适合实际部署的推荐系统。

跨域推荐(CDR)旨在利用数据较丰富的源域知识缓解目标域数据稀疏问题。尽管现有方法需应对不同域间的分布偏移(即跨域分布偏移,CDDS),通常仍假设目标域内训练与测试数据服从独立同分布(IID)。然而,现实中常存在单域分布偏移(SDDS),导致两种偏移共存,形成分布外(OOD)环境,阻碍知识迁移与泛化,降低推荐性能。为此,本文提出新型因果不变跨域分布外推荐框架CICDOR。CICDOR首先学习双层因果结构,推断领域特定与共享的因果不变用户偏好,以应对CDR中OOD环境下的双重分布偏移。其次,提出一种大模型引导的混杂因子发现模块,将大模型与传统因果发现方法结合,有效提取可观测混杂因子以实现去混杂,从而支持精准的因果不变偏好推断。在两个真实数据集上的大量实验表明,CICDOR在多种分布外场景下均优于当前最优方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) aims to leverage knowledge from a relatively data-richer source domain to address the data sparsity problem in a relatively data-sparser target domain. While CDR methods need to address the distribution shifts between different domains, i.e., cross-domain distribution shifts (CDDS), they typically assume independent and identical distribution (IID) between training and testing data within the target domain. However, this IID assumption rarely holds in real-world scenarios due to single-domain distribution shift (SDDS). The above two co-existing distribution shifts lead to out-of-distribution (OOD) environments that hinder effective knowledge transfer and generalization, ultimately degrading recommendation performance in CDR. To address these co-existing distribution shifts, we propose a novel Causal-Invariant Cross-Domain Out-of-distribution Recommendation framework, called CICDOR. In CICDOR, we first learn dual-level causal structures to infer domain-specific and domain-shared causal-invariant user preferences for tackling both CDDS and SDDS under OOD environments in CDR. Then, we propose an LLM-guided confounder discovery module that seamlessly integrates LLMs with a conventional causal discovery method to extract observed confounders for effective deconfounding, thereby enabling accurate causal-invariant preference inference. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the superior recommendation accuracy of CICDOR over state-of-the-art methods across various OOD scenarios.

跨域推荐因果推理分布外泛化

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