arXiv:2507.19067cs.IRcs.AI2025-07被引 1

用新损失函数缓解推荐系统对热门商品的偏倚,提升公平性。

PBiLoss: Popularity-Aware Regularization to Improve Fairness in Graph-Based Recommender Systems

  • 在训练中加入惩罚项,让模型少推荐热门物品
  • 在多个数据集上降低10%的推荐不公平度,保持精度不变
  • 适合作为现有图模型的插件模块,无需改动结构

基于图神经网络的推荐系统虽表现优异,但普遍存在热门物品偏倚问题,导致推荐个性化差、冷门商品曝光不足、多样性下降。现有方法或破坏数据分布,或增加优化复杂度,或无法修正已学习的偏倚。本文提出PBiLoss,一种新型正则化损失函数,通过惩罚模型对热门物品的偏好,引导推荐更冷门但更个性化的项目。设计了两种采样策略(PopPos和PopNeg)及两种区分热门物品的方法(阈值法与无阈值法),使方法灵活可调。该方法与模型无关,可无缝集成至LightGCN等主流图模型。在Epinions、iFashion和MovieLens数据集上的实验表明,相比基线模型,PBiLoss可将推荐不公度(PRU、PRI)降低最高达10%,同时维持准确率等指标不变。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recommender systems based on graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proved to perform well on user-item interactions. However, they commonly suffer from popularity bias -- the tendency to over-recommend popular items -- resulting in less personalization, unfair exposure and lower recommendation diversity. Current solutions address popularity bias through different stages of the recommendation pipeline, including pre-processing methods that may distort data distributions, in-processing approaches which can complicate optimization, and post-processing techniques that are limited in correcting bias already embedded in the learned representations. To address these limitations, we propose PBiLoss, a novel regularization-based loss function designed to explicitly counteract popularity bias in graph-based recommenders. PBiLoss augments traditional training objectives by penalizing the model's inclination toward popular items, thereby encouraging the recommendation of less popular but potentially more personalized content. We introduce two sampling strategies -- Popular Positive (PopPos) and Popular Negative (PopNeg) -- and explore two methods to distinguish popular items -- one based on a fixed popularity threshold and another without any threshold -- making the approach flexible and adaptive. Our proposed method is model-agnostic and can be seamlessly integrated into state-of-the-art graph-based frameworks such as LightGCN and its variants. Extensive experiments carried out on datasets including Epinions, iFashion, and MovieLens highlight the advantages of the PBiLoss for enhancing fairness in recommendations, decreasing PRU and PRI by up to 10\%, compared to other baseline models, while maintaining accuracy and other standard metrics intact in the process.

推荐系统图神经网络公平性偏倚纠正

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