用布朗桥建模用户偏好,让推荐更直接地从历史跳到目标项。
Brownian Bridge Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation
- 用布朗桥构建从历史到目标项的连续过渡路径。
- 在多个数据集上超越主流序列与扩散推荐模型。
- 适合对推荐生成过程有可解释性需求的研究者。
扩散模型凭借迭代加噪与去噪的强大生成能力,已成为序列推荐的新兴范式。现有方法通常采用受历史引导的去噪机制,从高斯噪声中重构目标项目表示,依赖用户历史进行个性化。然而,这种‘项目↔噪声’的设定引入了额外的噪声重建负担,可能干扰模型捕捉用户特定偏好结构。为此,我们从偏好中心视角重新思考基于扩散的序列推荐,提出直接实现‘项目↔历史’转变的偏好桥接设计。基于此,我们提出布朗桥扩散推荐(BBDRec),利用布朗桥过程构建目标项目与用户历史表示间的结构化扩散轨迹,使扩散建模更契合推荐的本质。大量实验表明,BBDRec在多个公开数据集上持续优于代表性序列与扩散基推荐基线。代码已开源:https://github.com/baiyimeng/BBDRec。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Diffusion models, known for their strong generative capability derived from iterative noising and denoising processes, have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for sequential recommendation. To incorporate user history for personalization, existing methods typically follow a history-guided denoising paradigm inspired by text-guided image generation, where target item representations are reconstructed from Gaussian noise conditioned on user historical interactions. However, this design remains fundamentally anchored to an "item $\leftrightarrow$ noise" formulation, introducing an additional noise-reconstruction burden that may distract the model from capturing user-specific preference structures. Motivated by this limitation, we revisit diffusion-based sequential recommendation from a preference-centric perspective and adopt a preference bridging design that enables a direct "item $\leftrightarrow$ history" transition instead of relying on Gaussian noise. Based on this idea, we propose Brownian Bridge Diffusion Recommendation (BBDRec), which leverages the Brownian bridge process to construct a structured diffusion trajectory between target items and user historical representations, thereby better aligning diffusion modeling with the intrinsic nature of recommendation. Extensive experiments on multiple public datasets show that BBDRec consistently outperforms representative sequential and diffusion-based recommendation baselines. The implementation code is publicly available at https://github.com/baiyimeng/BBDRec.
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