用检索增强动态适配用户偏好,提升推荐系统实时性。
Retrieve-then-Adapt: Retrieval-Augmented Test-Time Adaptation for Sequential Recommendation

- 从协同记忆库中检索相似物品,生成增强嵌入
- 在五个数据集上均超越现有方法,提升推荐精度
- 无需复杂训练,适合部署于实时推荐场景
序列推荐(SR)旨在根据用户历史交互序列预测下一个项目。传统模型训练后难以在推理时适应实时偏好变化,受限于分布偏移和参数约束。现有方法如测试时训练、测试时增强或检索增强微调,存在计算开销大、依赖随机增强或需两阶段训练等问题。本文提出Retrieve-then-Adapt(ReAd)框架,通过检索用户偏好信号实现高效测试时适配。给定已训练的SR模型,ReAd首先从构建的协同记忆库中检索测试用户的相似项目;轻量级检索学习模块将这些项目融合为包含协同信号与预测优化线索的增强嵌入;最后通过融合机制对初始预测进行修正。在五个基准数据集上的实验表明,ReAd持续优于现有SR方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The sequential recommendation (SR) task aims to predict the next item based on users' historical interaction sequences. Typically trained on historical data, SR models often struggle to adapt to real-time preference shifts during inference due to challenges posed by distributional divergence and parameterized constraints. Existing approaches to address this issue include test-time training, test-time augmentation, and retrieval-augmented fine-tuning. However, these methods either introduce significant computational overhead, rely on random augmentation strategies, or require a carefully designed two-stage training paradigm. In this paper, we argue that the key to effective test-time adaptation lies in achieving both effective augmentation and efficient adaptation. To this end, we propose Retrieve-then-Adapt (ReAd), a novel framework that dynamically adapts a deployed SR model to the test distribution through retrieved user preference signals. Specifically, given a trained SR model, ReAd first retrieves collaboratively similar items for a test user from a constructed collaborative memory database. A lightweight retrieval learning module then integrates these items into an informative augmentation embedding that captures both collaborative signals and prediction-refinement cues. Finally, the initial SR prediction is refined via a fusion mechanism that incorporates this embedding. Extensive experiments across five benchmark datasets demonstrate that ReAd consistently outperforms existing SR methods.
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