提出无需重训练的去偏方法,修复GNN推荐中的热门物品偏差
Post-hoc Popularity Bias Correction in GNN-based Collaborative Filtering
- 训练后通过流行度方向向量去除节点表示中的热门成分
- 在多个数据集上显著提升冷门物品推荐效果,准确率提升3.2%-5.7%
- 适合需要快速优化已有GNN推荐模型的工业场景
用户历史交互数据是协同过滤中学习用户偏好的主要信号。然而,训练数据常呈现长尾分布,少数物品占据多数交互。直接在此类不平衡数据上训练的协同过滤模型易产生流行度偏差,降低个性化并导致推荐质量下降。图神经网络(GNN)虽因消息传递机制在协同过滤中表现优异,但其聚合过程会进一步传播和放大流行度偏差。现有方法多通过修改训练目标来缓解偏差,却未能直接应对GNN聚合阶段传播的偏差。在聚合过程中对交互加权虽可缓解问题,但早期训练阶段节点表示不稳定,可能扭曲模型学习。本文提出一种后处理流行度去偏(PPD)方法,在无需重新训练的前提下,直接对预训练嵌入进行修正。通过估计交互级流行度,并利用流行度方向向量从节点表示中移除流行度成分,有效降低偏差同时保留用户偏好。实验表明,该方法在多个GNN-based CF任务中优于现有主流去偏方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
User historical interaction data is the primary signal for learning user preferences in collaborative filtering (CF). However, the training data often exhibits a long-tailed distribution, where only a few items have the majority of interactions. CF models trained directly on such imbalanced data are prone to learning popularity bias, which reduces personalization and leads to suboptimal recommendation quality. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), while effective for CF due to their message passing mechanism, can further propagate and amplify popularity bias through their aggregation process. Existing approaches typically address popularity bias by modifying training objectives but fail to directly counteract the bias propagated during GNN's neighborhood aggregation. Applying weights to interactions during aggregation can help alleviate this problem, yet it risks distorting model learning due to unstable node representations in the early stages of training. In this paper, we propose a Post-hoc Popularity Debiasing (PPD) method that corrects for popularity bias in GNN-based CF and operates directly on pre-trained embeddings without requiring retraining. By estimating interaction-level popularity and removing popularity components from node representations via a popularity direction vector, PPD reduces bias while preserving user preferences. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for popularity bias correction in GNN-based CF.
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