用简单反馈控制推荐系统中的有害内容,保证用户不被干扰。
You Don't Bring Me Flowers: Mitigating Unwanted Recommendations Through Conformal Risk Control
- 基于二元反馈和保形风险控制,无需模型细节即可约束不良推荐
- 实验显示能有效降低不良推荐率,且调整成本极低
- 适合关注推荐系统安全与用户体验的开发者与研究者
推荐系统深刻影响在线信息消费。尽管能个性化内容,但日益暴露无关、不当甚至有害推荐的问题,降低用户满意度并引发虚假信息传播、极端化及信任危机。现有平台虽提供干预机制,但效果有限且响应迟缓。本文提出一种直观、模型无关、分布自由的方法,利用对项目简单的二元反馈,通过保形风险控制可证明地限制不良内容在个性化推荐中的比例。同时解决传统方法中推荐集过小的问题,借助对已消费项目的隐式反馈扩展推荐范围,同时保障风险控制有效性。在某主流视频分享平台的数据上评估表明,该方法能以极小代价实现不良推荐的可控降低。源代码见:https://github.com/geektoni/mitigating-harm-recsys。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recommenders are significantly shaping online information consumption. While effective at personalizing content, these systems increasingly face criticism for propagating irrelevant, unwanted, and even harmful recommendations. Such content degrades user satisfaction and contributes to significant societal issues, including misinformation, radicalization, and erosion of user trust. Although platforms offer mechanisms to mitigate exposure to undesired content, these mechanisms are often insufficiently effective and slow to adapt to users' feedback. This paper introduces an intuitive, model-agnostic, and distribution-free method that uses conformal risk control to provably bound unwanted content in personalized recommendations by leveraging simple binary feedback on items. We also address a limitation of traditional conformal risk control approaches, i.e., the fact that the recommender can provide a smaller set of recommended items, by leveraging implicit feedback on consumed items to expand the recommendation set while ensuring robust risk mitigation. Our experimental evaluation on data coming from a popular online video-sharing platform demonstrates that our approach ensures an effective and controllable reduction of unwanted recommendations with minimal effort. The source code is available here: https://github.com/geektoni/mitigating-harm-recsys.
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