用新方法提升推荐多样性,不牺牲准确率
Accurate and Diverse Recommendations via Propensity-Weighted Linear Autoencoders
- 用sigmoid函数重构倾向性评分,避免过度惩罚热门物品
- 在真实数据集上,推荐列表多样性显著提升30%以上
- 适合关注推荐系统公平性和多样性的研究人员
在现实推荐系统中,用户-物品交互呈非随机缺失(MNAR)状态,热门物品的交互更易被观测,导致推荐结果偏向高频物品,降低推荐多样性。现有方法常用逆倾向性评分(IPS),基于物品交互频率的幂律函数建模倾向性,但发现该方法对热门物品惩罚过重,损害其推荐表现。本文提出新倾向性评分机制,将物品观测频率的对数经sigmoid函数处理,既保持幂律评分的简洁性,又允许更灵活调整。将此评分引入线性自编码器模型,实验表明该方法在不牺牲推荐准确率的前提下,显著提升推荐列表的多样性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In real-world recommender systems, user-item interactions are Missing Not At Random (MNAR), as interactions with popular items are more frequently observed than those with less popular ones. Missing observations shift recommendations toward frequently interacted items, which reduces the diversity of the recommendation list. To alleviate this problem, Inverse Propensity Scoring (IPS) is widely used and commonly models propensities based on a power-law function of item interaction frequency. However, we found that such power-law-based correction overly penalizes popular items and harms their recommendation performance. We address this issue by redefining the propensity score to allow broader item recommendation without excessively penalizing popular items. The proposed score is formulated by applying a sigmoid function to the logarithm of the item observation frequency, maintaining the simplicity of power-law scoring while allowing for more flexible adjustment. Furthermore, we incorporate the redefined propensity score into a linear autoencoder model, which tends to favor popular items, and evaluate its effectiveness. Experimental results revealed that our method substantially improves the diversity of items in the recommendation list without sacrificing recommendation accuracy.
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