arXiv:2505.19473cs.IR2025-05被引 1

用多角色大模型推断隐含敏感信息,提升推荐公平性。

Improving Recommendation Fairness without Sensitive Attributes Using Multi-Persona LLMs

  • 通过多角色大模型模拟不同人类视角推断敏感信息
  • 在两个公开数据集上显著提升推荐公平性
  • 适合关注隐私保护下公平推荐的研究者

尽管推荐系统在缓解信息过载方面取得成功,但公平性问题近年来引发关注,可能导致特定用户群体受到不平等待遇。现有方法通常假设训练时可获取用户敏感属性,但在不披露个人信息的平台中,收集此类信息十分困难。因此,我们致力于在无敏感属性的情况下提升推荐公平性。然而,从复杂用户行为中推断潜在敏感模式极具挑战,错误的敏感分布估计会阻碍公平训练。为此,我们提出一种基于大语言模型的公平推荐框架LLMFOSA。其多角色敏感信息推断模块利用具有不同人格的大模型模拟多样人类认知,推断并提炼敏感信息;混淆感知的敏感表征学习模块结合推断结果与推理过程,考虑误标混淆与代理间共识,构建稳健表征,并通过互信息目标优化模型。在两个公开数据集上的实验验证了该方法的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Despite the success of recommender systems in alleviating information overload, fairness issues have raised concerns in recent years, potentially leading to unequal treatment for certain user groups. While efforts have been made to improve recommendation fairness, they often assume that users' sensitive attributes are available during model training. However, collecting sensitive information can be difficult, especially on platforms that involve no personal information disclosure. Therefore, we aim to improve recommendation fairness without any access to sensitive attributes. However, this is a non-trivial task because uncovering latent sensitive patterns from complicated user behaviors without explicit sensitive attributes can be difficult. Consequently, suboptimal estimates of sensitive distributions can hinder the fairness training process. To address these challenges, leveraging the remarkable reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), we propose a novel LLM-enhanced framework for Fair recommendation withOut Sensitive Attributes (LLMFOSA). A Multi-Persona Sensitive Information Inference module employs LLMs with distinct personas that mimic diverse human perceptions to infer and distill sensitive information. Furthermore, a Confusion-Aware Sensitive Representation Learning module incorporates inference results and rationales to develop robust sensitive representations, considering the mislabeling confusion and collective consensus among agents. The model is then optimized by a formulated mutual information objective. Extensive experiments on two public datasets validate the effectiveness of LLMFOSA in improving fairness.

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