用两个独立模型模拟真实对话,无需预设推荐目标即可生成高质量推荐对话。
Interplay: Training Independent Simulators for Reference-Free Conversational Recommendation
- 训练两个独立的LLM分别扮演用户和推荐系统,实时交互不依赖预设目标。
- 生成对话更自然多样,接近真实人机互动,质量媲美甚至超过现有方法。
- 适合需要大规模高质量对话数据的研究者,尤其关注真实感与可扩展性。
训练对话式推荐系统(CRS)需要大量对话数据,但大规模收集困难。现有方法多采用单一大语言模型生成包含目标物品先验知识的对话,导致内容僵化。本文提出一种无参考仿真框架,训练两个独立的LLM:一个作为用户,一个作为推荐系统。二者在无预设目标物品的情况下,仅通过偏好摘要和目标属性进行实时交互,使推荐系统真正通过对话推断用户偏好。该方法生成的对话更真实、多样化,更贴近真实人机交互。定量与人工评估均验证了其有效性,性能达到或优于现有方法,且具备良好的可扩展性,无需限制对话内容为预定义目标。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Training conversational recommender systems (CRS) requires extensive dialogue data, which is challenging to collect at scale. To address this, researchers have used simulated user-recommender conversations. Traditional simulation approaches often utilize a single large language model (LLM) that generates entire conversations with prior knowledge of the target items, leading to scripted and artificial dialogues. We propose a reference-free simulation framework that trains two independent LLMs, one as the user and one as the conversational recommender. These models interact in real-time without access to predetermined target items, but preference summaries and target attributes, enabling the recommender to genuinely infer user preferences through dialogue. This approach produces more realistic and diverse conversations that closely mirror authentic human-AI interactions. Our reference-free simulators match or exceed existing methods in quality, while offering a scalable solution for generating high-quality conversational recommendation data without constraining conversations to pre-defined target items. We conduct both quantitative and human evaluations to confirm the effectiveness of our reference-free approach.
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