让推荐系统的生成结果可解释,通过分层解耦的语义编码提升准确性和多样性。
HiD-VAE: Interpretable Generative Recommendation via Hierarchical and Disentangled Semantic IDs
- 用分层标签监督离散化,生成有层次、可追溯的语义编码。
- 引入唯一性损失,减少编码重叠,解决推荐冲突问题。
- 适合需要可解释推荐的场景,如电商和内容平台决策支持。
推荐系统对现代在线平台海量商品目录的导航至关重要。近年来,生成式推荐作为一种新兴范式,将传统的检索-排序流程统一为端到端生成模型,具备动态生成能力。然而,现有生成方法受限于无监督分词,生成的语义ID存在两大缺陷:(1) 语义扁平且不可解释,缺乏清晰层级结构;(2) 易产生表示纠缠(即“ID冲突”),影响推荐精度与多样性。为此,我们提出HiD-VAE,一种通过两项核心创新学习分层解耦物品表征的新框架。首先,提出分层监督量化过程,使离散代码对齐多层级物品标签,生成更均匀、解耦的ID。关键在于,训练后的码本可预测层级标签,为每次推荐提供可追溯、可解释的语义路径。其次,引入新颖的唯一性损失,直接惩罚潜在空间重叠,不仅解决了关键的ID冲突问题,还通过更充分地利用物品表征空间提升了推荐多样性。高质量、解耦的ID为下游生成模型奠定坚实基础。在三个公开基准上的大量实验验证了HiD-VAE优于当前最先进方法。代码已公开于 https://anonymous.4open.science/r/HiD-VAE-84B2。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recommender systems are indispensable for helping users navigate the immense item catalogs of modern online platforms. Recently, generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm, unifying the conventional retrieve-and-rank pipeline into an end-to-end model capable of dynamic generation. However, existing generative methods are fundamentally constrained by their unsupervised tokenization, which generates semantic IDs suffering from two critical flaws: (1) they are semantically flat and uninterpretable, lacking a coherent hierarchy, and (2) they are prone to representation entanglement (i.e., ``ID collisions''), which harms recommendation accuracy and diversity. To overcome these limitations, we propose HiD-VAE, a novel framework that learns hierarchically disentangled item representations through two core innovations. First, HiD-VAE pioneers a hierarchically-supervised quantization process that aligns discrete codes with multi-level item tags, yielding more uniform and disentangled IDs. Crucially, the trained codebooks can predict hierarchical tags, providing a traceable and interpretable semantic path for each recommendation. Second, to combat representation entanglement, HiD-VAE incorporates a novel uniqueness loss that directly penalizes latent space overlap. This mechanism not only resolves the critical ID collision problem but also promotes recommendation diversity by ensuring a more comprehensive utilization of the item representation space. These high-quality, disentangled IDs provide a powerful foundation for downstream generative models. Extensive experiments on three public benchmarks validate HiD-VAE's superior performance against state-of-the-art methods. The code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/HiD-VAE-84B2.
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