arXiv:2508.17618cs.IR2025-08被引 6

用流匹配建模用户偏好演变,提升推荐效率与精度

Preference Trajectory Modeling via Flow Matching for Sequential Recommendation

  • 用流匹配显式建模从当前行为到未来兴趣的偏好轨迹
  • 在4个基准数据集上超越现有方法,生成质量与采样效率双提升
  • 适合关注高效生成与个性化推荐的研究者与工程师

序列推荐根据用户历史交互序列预测其下一步行为。近期扩散模型因其强大的用户兴趣分布建模能力受到关注,通常通过条件去噪高斯噪声生成目标项。但这类方法存在两大局限:对条件高度敏感,难以从纯高斯噪声中恢复目标项;推理过程计算开销大,限制实际部署。为此,本文提出FlowRec,一种简单而有效的序列推荐框架,利用流匹配显式建模用户偏好轨迹,从当前状态演化至未来兴趣。流匹配是一种新兴生成范式,支持更灵活的初始分布并实现更高效的采样。我们构建基于用户行为的个性化先验分布替代高斯噪声,并学习一个向量场以建模偏好演化路径。为更好对齐推荐目标,设计包含正负样本的单步对齐损失,进一步提升采样效率与生成质量。在四个基准数据集上的大量实验验证了FlowRec优于当前最先进基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Sequential recommendation predicts each user's next item based on their historical interaction sequence. Recently, diffusion models have attracted significant attention in this area due to their strong ability to model user interest distributions. They typically generate target items by denoising Gaussian noise conditioned on historical interactions. However, these models face two critical limitations. First, they exhibit high sensitivity to the condition, making it difficult to recover target items from pure Gaussian noise. Second, the inference process is computationally expensive, limiting practical deployment. To address these issues, we propose FlowRec, a simple yet effective sequential recommendation framework which leverages flow matching to explicitly model user preference trajectories from current states to future interests. Flow matching is an emerging generative paradigm, which offers greater flexibility in initial distributions and enables more efficient sampling. Based on this, we construct a personalized behavior-based prior distribution to replace Gaussian noise and learn a vector field to model user preference trajectories. To better align flow matching with the recommendation objective, we further design a single-step alignment loss incorporating both positive and negative samples, improving sampling efficiency and generation quality. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets verify the superiority of FlowRec over the state-of-the-art baselines.

序列推荐流匹配生成模型偏好建模

Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。