测试阶段用图卷积,提升多模态推荐效率与准确率
The Best is Yet to Come: Graph Convolution in the Testing Phase for Multimodal Recommendation
- 训练时不使用图卷积,仅在测试时引入
- 在三个数据集上均超越现有基线模型
- 解决训练中模态隔离问题,适合大规模部署
图卷积网络(GCNs)在训练推荐系统中的效率和可扩展性仍是关键挑战,尤其在多模态推荐(MMRec)领域,训练阶段使用GCNs需更高时间与空间成本,并加剧不同模态间的差距,导致推荐精度下降。本文指出,训练阶段引入GCNs会生成无益甚至有害的样本对,并造成模态隔离。为此,提出FastMMRec框架,仅在测试阶段部署图卷积,避免训练阶段使用。实验表明,该方法显著提升模型效率与可扩展性,缓解模态隔离问题,在三个公开数据集上持续优于现有基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The efficiency and scalability of graph convolution networks (GCNs) in training recommender systems remain critical challenges, hindering their practical deployment in real-world scenarios. In the multimodal recommendation (MMRec) field, training GCNs requires more expensive time and space costs and exacerbates the gap between different modalities, resulting in sub-optimal recommendation accuracy. This paper critically points out the inherent challenges associated with adopting GCNs during the training phase in MMRec, revealing that GCNs inevitably create unhelpful and even harmful pairs during model optimization and isolate different modalities. To this end, we propose FastMMRec, a highly efficient multimodal recommendation framework that deploys graph convolutions exclusively during the testing phase, bypassing their use in training. We demonstrate that adopting GCNs solely in the testing phase significantly improves the model's efficiency and scalability while alleviating the modality isolation problem often caused by using GCNs during the training phase. We conduct extensive experiments on three public datasets, consistently demonstrating the performance superiority of FastMMRec over competitive baselines while achieving efficiency and scalability.
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