arXiv:2508.01128cs.IRcs.AI2025-08综述被引 2

用文本边图填补推荐系统中的评论缺失,提升推荐效果。

Towards Bridging Review Sparsity in Recommendation with Textual Edge Graph Representation

  • 将用户-物品交互建模为带文本的边图,联合捕捉语义与结构信息。
  • 在Amazon和Goodreads上,推荐性能优于传统方法,生成评论更真实具体。
  • 适合需要提升稀疏场景下推荐质量的研究者与工程师。

文本评论为推荐系统提供了细粒度偏好信号和可解释性。然而,在现实场景中,用户很少留下评论,导致严重稀疏性,削弱了现有模型的效果。一种自然解决方案是补全或生成缺失评论以丰富数据。但传统补全技术——如矩阵填充和基于大语言模型的增强——要么在向量化过程中丢失上下文语义,要么忽视用户-物品交互间的结构依赖。为此,我们提出TWISTER(ToWards Imputation on Sparsity with Textual Edge Graph Representation),一个统一框架,通过联合建模语义与结构信号来补全缺失评论。具体地,我们将用户-物品交互表示为文本边图(TEG),将评论视为边属性。为捕捉关系上下文,构建线图视图,并使用大语言模型作为图感知聚合器。对于缺乏文本评论的交互,模型聚合邻域的自然语言表示,生成连贯且个性化的评论。在Amazon和Goodreads数据集上的实验表明,TWISTER持续优于传统数值、图基及LLM基基线,不仅生成更高质量的补全评论,更重要的是提升了推荐性能。总之,TWISTER生成的评论更具帮助性、真实性和针对性,同时平滑了结构信号,从而改善推荐效果。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Textual reviews enrich recommender systems with fine-grained preference signals and enhanced explainability. However, in real-world scenarios, users rarely leave reviews, resulting in severe sparsity that undermines the effectiveness of existing models. A natural solution is to impute or generate missing reviews to enrich the data. However, conventional imputation techniques -- such as matrix completion and LLM-based augmentation -- either lose contextualized semantics by embedding texts into vectors, or overlook structural dependencies among user-item interactions. To address these shortcomings, we propose TWISTER (ToWards Imputation on Sparsity with Textual Edge Graph Representation), a unified framework that imputes missing reviews by jointly modeling semantic and structural signals. Specifically, we represent user-item interactions as a Textual-Edge Graph (TEG), treating reviews as edge attributes. To capture relational context, we construct line-graph views and employ a large language model as a graph-aware aggregator. For each interaction lacking a textual review, our model aggregates the neighborhood's natural-language representations to generate a coherent and personalized review. Experiments on the Amazon and Goodreads datasets show that TWISTER consistently outperforms traditional numeric, graph-based, and LLM baselines, delivering higher-quality imputed reviews and, more importantly, enhanced recommendation performance. In summary, TWISTER generates reviews that are more helpful, authentic, and specific, while smoothing structural signals for improved recommendations.

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