arXiv:2604.13737cs.IRcs.AI2026-04被引 5

统一多字段与序列推荐,解决特征维度坍塌问题

TokenFormer: Unify the Multi-Field and Sequential Recommendation Worlds

论文配图:TokenFormer: Unify the Multi-Field and Sequential Recommendation Worlds
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  • 采用分层注意力机制,底层全连接、顶层滑动窗口
  • 引入单向非线性交互,提升表示区分度
  • 在真实广告平台表现领先,适合复杂推荐场景

推荐系统长期沿两条独立路径发展:用于建模多字段类别特征关联的特征交互模型,以及捕捉用户历史行为动态的序列模型。尽管近期尝试在共享骨干网络中融合二者,我们实证发现简单统一可能引发序列坍缩传播(SCP)问题——即维度不匹配的非序列字段导致序列特征维度坍塌。为此,我们提出TokenFormer,其创新包括:首先,设计底全顶滑(BFTS)注意力机制,低层使用全自注意力,高层采用收缩窗口滑动注意力;其次,引入非线性交互表示(NLIR),对隐藏状态实施单侧非线性乘法变换。在公开基准和腾讯广告平台的大量实验表明,TokenFormer达到业界领先性能,详细分析证实其在统一建模下显著提升了维度鲁棒性和表示判别力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recommender systems have historically developed along two largely independent paradigms: feature interaction models for modeling correlations among multi-field categorical features, and sequential models for capturing user behavior dynamics from historical interaction sequences. Although recent trends attempt to bridge these paradigms within shared backbones, we empirically reveal that naive unifying these two branches may lead to a failure mode of Sequential Collapse Propagation (SCP). That is, the interaction with those dimensionally ill non-sequence fields leads to the dimensional collapse of the sequence features. To overcome this challenge, we propose TokenFormer, a unified recommendation architecture with the following innovations. First, we introduce a Bottom-Full-Top-Sliding (BFTS) attention scheme, which applies full self-attention in the lower layers and shrinking-window sliding attention in the upper layers. Second, we introduce a Non-Linear Interaction Representation (NLIR) that applies one-sided non-linear multiplicative transformations to the hidden states. Extensive experiments on public benchmarks and Tencent's advertising platform demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, while detailed analysis confirm that TokenFormer significantly improves dimensional robustness and representation discriminability under unified modeling.

推荐系统序列建模特征交互注意力机制

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