解决对话推荐系统中数据稀疏问题,提升对冷门物品的推荐效果。
On Mitigating Data Sparsity in Conversational Recommender Systems
- 通过两阶段数据增强缓解对话语言多样性带来的泛化难题。
- 利用知识图谱进行实体替换与相似性约束,提升稀疏实体表征能力。
- 融合对话与实体信息的注意力机制,捕捉用户显性和隐性偏好。
对话推荐系统(CRS)从对话上下文中推断用户偏好,但面临对话和实体空间双重数据稀疏问题。对话数据语言多样且开放,难以跨表达泛化;现有模型依赖大型知识图谱,训练时仅少数实体获得有效监督,多数实体在推理时未被见过或训练不足。为此,我们提出DACRS框架,包含三个模块:对话增强、知识引导实体建模和对话-实体匹配。对话增强采用两阶段增强管道丰富对话上下文,提升对语言变异的鲁棒性;知识引导实体建模通过实体替换和实体相似性约束,强化稀疏监督及未见实体的表征学习;对话-实体匹配模块通过对话引导的注意力聚合,融合对话表示与提及实体嵌入,生成同时捕捉显式与隐式偏好的用户表示。在两个公开基准数据集上的大量实验表明,DACRS持续优于当前最优对话推荐系统。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) infer user preferences from dialogue contexts, but they suffer from severe data sparsity in both dialogue and entity spaces. Dialogue data are linguistically diverse and open-ended, making it difficult to generalize across varied expressions. Meanwhile, existing CRS models often rely on large knowledge graphs, where only a small fraction of entities receive effective supervision during training, leaving the majority under-trained or entirely unseen at inference time. To address these challenges, we propose DACRS, a novel CRS framework consisting of three modules: Dialogue Augmentation, Knowledge-Guided Entity Modeling, and Dialogue-Entity Matching. The Dialogue Augmentation module adopts a two-stage augmentation pipeline to enrich dialogue contexts and improve robustness to linguistic variation. The Knowledge-Guided Entity Modeling module leverages knowledge graphs through entity substitution and an entity similarity constraint to enhance representation learning for sparsely supervised and unseen entities. Finally, the Dialogue-Entity Matching module integrates dialogue representations with mentioned entity embeddings via dialogue-guided attention aggregation, yielding user representations that capture both explicit and implicit preferences. Extensive experiments on two public benchmark datasets demonstrate that DACRS consistently outperforms state-of-the-art conversational recommender systems.
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