用因果神经符号推理模型,让推荐系统既准又可解释。
Modeling Endogenous Logic: Causal Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning Model for Explainable Multi-Behavior Recommendation
- 通过行为链中的内在逻辑建模,模拟人类决策过程
- 在三个大规模数据集上优于现有方法,显著提升可解释性
- 适合需要透明推荐结果的场景,如金融、医疗
现有多行为推荐往往牺牲可解释性以追求性能,而现有可解释方法因依赖外部信息导致泛化能力差。神经符号融合为可解释性提供新路径,结合神经网络与符号逻辑推理。我们认为用户行为序列天然蕴含可显式推理的内生逻辑,但受混杂因素影响,模型易学得虚假关联。为此,我们提出一种用于可解释多行为推荐的因果神经符号推理模型(CNRE)。CNRE通过层次偏好传播捕捉跨行为异质依赖,并基于偏好强度建模行为链中隐含的内生逻辑规则,自适应选择对应神经-逻辑推理路径(如合取、析取),生成近似无混杂效应的理想状态中介变量。在三个大规模数据集上的实验表明,CNRE显著优于当前最优基线,在模型设计、决策过程与推荐结果层面均实现多层次可解释性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Existing multi-behavior recommendations tend to prioritize performance at the expense of explainability, while current explainable methods suffer from limited generalizability due to their reliance on external information. Neuro-Symbolic integration offers a promising avenue for explainability by combining neural networks with symbolic logic rule reasoning. Concurrently, we posit that user behavior chains inherently embody an endogenous logic suitable for explicit reasoning. However, these observational multiple behaviors are plagued by confounders, causing models to learn spurious correlations. By incorporating causal inference into this Neuro-Symbolic framework, we propose a novel Causal Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning model for Explainable Multi-Behavior Recommendation (CNRE). CNRE operationalizes the endogenous logic by simulating a human-like decision-making process. Specifically, CNRE first employs hierarchical preference propagation to capture heterogeneous cross-behavior dependencies. Subsequently, it models the endogenous logic rule implicit in the user's behavior chain based on preference strength, and adaptively dispatches to the corresponding neural-logic reasoning path (e.g., conjunction, disjunction). This process generates an explainable causal mediator that approximates an ideal state isolated from confounding effects. Extensive experiments on three large-scale datasets demonstrate CNRE's significant superiority over state-of-the-art baselines, offering multi-level explainability from model design and decision process to recommendation results.
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