Duet通过联合生成用户与物品文本画像,提升推荐系统准确性。
DUET: Joint Exploration of User Item Profiles in Recommendation System

- 联合生成用户与物品文本画像,避免独立生成导致的语义不一致
- 三阶段流程:线索提取→配对提示生成→强化学习优化,提升推荐效果
- 无需预设模板,适配多场景推荐任务
传统推荐系统将用户和物品表示为稠密向量,在共享隐空间中对齐以估计相关性。近期基于大模型的推荐系统则利用自然语言表示,更易解释且便于集成下游推理模块。本文研究如何构建有效的用户与物品文本画像,并实现二者对齐。核心难点在于最佳画像格式未知:人工设计的模板可能脆弱且与任务目标错位。独立生成用户与物品画像可能导致描述虽各自合理,但对特定用户-物品对语义不一致。我们提出 Duet,一种交互感知的画像生成器,联合生成基于用户历史与物品证据的用户和物品画像。Duet 采用三阶段流程:首先将原始历史和元数据转化为紧凑线索;其次将这些线索扩展为成对的画像提示并生成画像;最后使用下游推荐性能作为反馈,通过强化学习优化生成策略。在三个真实世界数据集上的实验表明,Duet 持续优于强基线,证明了无模板画像探索和联合用户-物品文本对齐的优势。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Traditional recommendation systems represent users and items as dense vectors and learn to align them in a shared latent space for relevance estimation. Recent LLM-based recommenders instead leverage natural-language representations that are easier to interpret and integrate with downstream reasoning modules. This paper studies how to construct effective textual profiles for users and items, and how to align them for recommendation. A central difficulty is that the best profile format is not known a priori: manually designed templates can be brittle and misaligned with task objectives. Moreover, generating user and item profiles independently may produce descriptions that are individually plausible yet semantically inconsistent for a specific user--item pair. We propose Duet, an interaction-aware profile generator that jointly produces user and item profiles conditioned on both user history and item evidence. Duet follows a three-stage procedure: it first turns raw histories and metadata into compact cues, then expands these cues into paired profile prompts and then generate profiles, and finally optimizes the generation policy with reinforcement learning using downstream recommendation performance as feedback. Experiments on three real-world datasets show that Duet consistently outperforms strong baselines, demonstrating the benefits of template-free profile exploration and joint user-item textual alignment.
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