提出树状生成重排框架,提升推荐列表生成质量。
Next-Scale Generative Reranking: A Tree-based Generative Rerank Method at Meituan
- 分阶段从粗到细生成推荐列表,兼顾全局与局部视角。
- 多尺度邻居损失使生成器在每层获得精准指导,提升排序效果。
- 已在美团外卖平台落地,适合高阶推荐系统研发者参考。
在现代多阶段推荐系统中,重排通过建模上下文信息发挥关键作用。由于组合空间复杂度等固有挑战,越来越多方法采用生成范式:生成器在推理时产出最优列表,评估器在训练阶段指导生成器优化。然而,这些方法仍面临两大问题:其一,无论采用自回归或非自回归策略,生成器因缺乏局部与全局视角而难以产出最优结果;其二,生成器与评估器在训练中目标不一致,导致引导信号混乱,影响性能。为此,我们提出下一代生成重排框架(NSGR),采用树状生成架构。具体地,设计了从粗到细逐步扩展推荐列表的下一尺度生成器(NSG),平衡全局与局部视角。同时,构建基于树结构的多尺度评估器(MSE)与多尺度邻居损失,为NSG在每一层级提供针对性指导。在公开及工业数据集上的大量实验验证了NSGR的有效性,且已在美团外卖平台成功部署。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In modern multi-stage recommendation systems, reranking plays a critical role by modeling contextual information. Due to inherent challenges such as the combinatorial space complexity, an increasing number of methods adopt the generative paradigm: the generator produces the optimal list during inference, while an evaluator guides the generator's optimization during the training phase. However, these methods still face two problems. Firstly, these generators fail to produce optimal generation results due to the lack of both local and global perspectives, regardless of whether the generation strategy is autoregressive or non-autoregressive. Secondly, the goal inconsistency problem between the generator and the evaluator during training complicates the guidance signal and leading to suboptimal performance. To address these issues, we propose the \textbf{N}ext-\textbf{S}cale \textbf{G}eneration \textbf{R}eranking (NSGR), a tree-based generative framework. Specifically, we introduce a next-scale generator (NSG) that progressively expands a recommendation list from user interests in a coarse-to-fine manner, balancing global and local perspectives. Furthermore, we design a multi-scale neighbor loss, which leverages a tree-based multi-scale evaluator (MSE) to provide scale-specific guidance to the NSG at each scale. Extensive experiments on public and industrial datasets validate the effectiveness of NSGR. And NSGR has been successfully deployed on the Meituan food delivery platform.
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