arXiv:2508.05225cs.IR2025-08

提出FIRE框架,让推荐解释更真实可信

FIRE: Faithful Interpretable Recommendation Explanations

  • 用SHAP特征归因+提示工程生成结构化解释
  • 解释与模型预测对齐度提升,避免重复泛泛之词
  • 适合关注可解释性与用户信任的推荐系统研究者

推荐系统中的自然语言解释常被当作评论生成任务,利用用户评论作为监督信号。但这种方法混淆了用户观点与系统推理,导致解释虽流畅却未必反映真实推荐逻辑。本文重新审视可解释推荐的核心目标:透明地连接用户需求与物品特征,以说明为何推荐某项。通过对多个基准数据集上现有方法的全面分析,发现普遍问题包括解释与模型预测弱关联、用户意图识别模糊或错误、以及重复冗余。为此,提出FIRE——一种轻量级可解释框架,结合基于SHAP的特征归因与结构化提示驱动的语言生成。FIRE生成忠实、多样且用户对齐的解释,基于模型实际决策过程。结果表明,FIRE不仅保持竞争性推荐精度,还在对齐度、结构化和忠实性等关键维度显著提升解释质量。本工作强调应超越‘评论即解释’范式,迈向可问责、可解释的解释方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Natural language explanations in recommender systems are often framed as a review generation task, leveraging user reviews as ground-truth supervision. While convenient, this approach conflates a user's opinion with the system's reasoning, leading to explanations that may be fluent but fail to reflect the true logic behind recommendations. In this work, we revisit the core objective of explainable recommendation: to transparently communicate why an item is recommended by linking user needs to relevant item features. Through a comprehensive analysis of existing methods across multiple benchmark datasets, we identify common limitations-explanations that are weakly aligned with model predictions, vague or inaccurate in identifying user intents, and overly repetitive or generic. To overcome these challenges, we propose FIRE, a lightweight and interpretable framework that combines SHAP-based feature attribution with structured, prompt-driven language generation. FIRE produces faithful, diverse, and user-aligned explanations, grounded in the actual decision-making process of the model. Our results demonstrate that FIRE not only achieves competitive recommendation accuracy but also significantly improves explanation quality along critical dimensions such as alignment, structure, and faithfulness. This work highlights the need to move beyond the review-as-explanation paradigm and toward explanation methods that are both accountable and interpretable.

可解释推荐SHAP语言生成用户对齐

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