用几何纤维丛理论解构推荐系统,让偏见可解释、可追踪。
RecBundle: A Next-Generation Geometric Paradigm for Explainable Recommender Systems
- 引入微分几何中的纤维丛,分离用户行为与偏好空间。
- 在真实数据集上验证了框架对信息茧房的量化分析能力。
- 适合关注可解释推荐与动态偏见研究的学者和工程师。
推荐系统本质上是动态反馈循环,长期局部交互会累积为宏观结构退化,如信息茧房。现有表征学习范式普遍受限于单一平坦空间假设,迫使拓扑相关的用户关联与语义驱动的历史交互被强行嵌入同一向量空间,导致异质信息过度耦合,无法机制化区分系统性偏见来源。为突破这一理论瓶颈,我们引入现代微分几何中的纤维丛概念,提出一种新型几何分析范式。该理论自然将系统空间划分为两层:由用户交互网络构成的基流形,以及附着于每个用户节点上的纤维,承载其动态偏好。基于此,构建了面向下一代推荐系统的RecBundle框架,将用户协作形式化为基流形上的几何连接与平行传输,内容演化映射为纤维上的全同变换。在此基础上,识别出未来应用方向:信息茧房与演化偏见的定量机制、自适应推荐的几何元理论,以及融合大语言模型的新推理架构。在MovieLens与Amazon Beauty两个真实数据集上的实证分析验证了该几何框架的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recommender systems are inherently dynamic feedback loops where prolonged local interactions accumulate into macroscopic structural degradation such as information cocoons. Existing representation learning paradigms are universally constrained by the assumption of a single flat space, forcing topologically grounded user associations and semantically driven historical interactions to be fitted within the same vector space. This excessive coupling of heterogeneous information renders it impossible for researchers to mechanistically distinguish and identify the sources of systemic bias. To overcome this theoretical bottleneck, we introduce Fiber Bundle from modern differential geometry and propose a novel geometric analysis paradigm for recommender systems. This theory naturally decouples the system space into two hierarchical layers: the base manifold formed by user interaction networks, and the fibers attached to individual user nodes that carry their dynamic preferences. Building upon this, we construct RecBundle, a framework oriented toward next-generation recommender systems that formalizes user collaboration as geometric connection and parallel transport on the base manifold, while mapping content evolution to holonomy transformations on fibers. From this foundation, we identify future application directions encompassing quantitative mechanisms for information cocoons and evolutionary bias, geometric meta-theory for adaptive recommendation, and novel inference architectures integrating large language models (LLMs). Empirical analysis on real-world MovieLens and Amazon Beauty datasets validates the effectiveness of this geometric framework.
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