arXiv:2510.17245cs.IR2025-10NeurIPS被引 3

提出TA-Rec框架,实现扩散推荐模型一步生成,兼顾效率与效果。

On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based Recommenders

  • 两阶段训练:预训练时用时间一致性正则平滑去噪函数,微调时自适应对齐用户偏好。
  • 一步生成可减少计算开销,同时保持推荐准确率,误差可控。
  • 适合追求高效且精准的序列推荐场景,尤其适用于实时推荐系统。

扩散模型已成为生成式序列推荐的有力范式,通常通过多步去噪过程根据用户历史交互生成下一个推荐项。然而,该多步过程依赖离散近似,引入了离散化误差,导致计算效率与推荐效果之间的权衡。为解决这一问题,本文提出TA-Rec,一个两阶段框架:在预训练阶段,通过时间一致性正则(TCR)强制相邻步骤的去噪结果一致,从而平滑去噪函数,使噪声能以有界误差直接映射为理想推荐项,实现一步生成;在微调阶段,引入自适应偏好对齐(APA),基于偏好对相似性和时间步动态调整去噪过程以贴近用户偏好。大量实验表明,TA-Rec的两阶段目标有效缓解了由离散化误差引起的权衡,显著提升了扩散推荐模型的效率与效果。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generative sequential recommendation, which typically generate next items to recommend guided by user interaction histories with a multi-step denoising process. However, the multi-step process relies on discrete approximations, introducing discretization error that creates a trade-off between computational efficiency and recommendation effectiveness. To address this trade-off, we propose TA-Rec, a two-stage framework that achieves one-step generation by smoothing the denoising function during pretraining while alleviating trajectory deviation by aligning with user preferences during fine-tuning. Specifically, to improve the efficiency without sacrificing the recommendation performance, TA-Rec pretrains the denoising model with Temporal Consistency Regularization (TCR), enforcing the consistency between the denoising results across adjacent steps. Thus, we can smooth the denoising function to map the noise as oracle items in one step with bounded error. To further enhance effectiveness, TA-Rec introduces Adaptive Preference Alignment (APA) that aligns the denoising process with user preference adaptively based on preference pair similarity and timesteps. Extensive experiments prove that TA-Rec's two-stage objective effectively mitigates the discretization errors-induced trade-off, enhancing both efficiency and effectiveness of diffusion-based recommenders.

扩散模型推荐系统序列推荐效率优化

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