arXiv:2605.01524cs.IR2026-05被引 1

不重训模型就能灵活调节推荐系统中内容提供者的曝光公平性。

Post-hoc Provider Fairness Adaptation via Hierarchical Exposure Alignment

论文配图:Post-hoc Provider Fairness Adaptation via Hierarchical Exposure Alignment
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  • 用轻量级适配器动态调整排名分数,实现后置公平性控制。
  • 在三个数据集上显著提升公平性,准确率损失极小。
  • 适合需要快速响应不同公平需求的推荐系统部署场景。

内容提供者曝光公平性对维护健康的推荐生态、防止垄断至关重要。现有方法要么在训练时加入公平性约束,导致公平目标变化时需昂贵重训;要么依赖固定规则的后置重排,缺乏灵活性。为此,我们提出后置公平性适配(PFA),一种轻量级框架,为冻结的推荐模型添加公平性适配器,无需重训即可灵活调控公平性。适配器从用户-项目嵌入中学习个性化的加性评分修正,并注入原始排名分以引导提供者曝光趋于公平。通过最小化实际与目标公平曝光分布间的KL散度来训练适配器。然而,全局目标隐含地将所有提供者同等对待,忽视了组间规模差异和组内曝光异质性。因此,整体公平性看似达标,但组间与组内曝光失衡仍存,影响实际公平性。为此,我们设计层级曝光公平对齐(HEFA),显式平衡组间与组内暴露差异,支持多样化公平需求的灵活适应。为缓解精度下降,PFA联合优化可微NDCG损失,实现端到端公平性优化并保持排序质量。在三个公开数据集上的大量实验表明,PFA在几乎无准确率损失下取得显著公平性提升,持续优于强基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Provider exposure fairness is crucial for sustaining a healthy content ecosystem and preventing monopolization in recommender systems. Yet, most existing methods either incorporate fairness constraints during model training, requiring expensive retraining when fairness objectives change, or rely on post-hoc reranking with fixed criteria, which lacks adaptability to diverse fairness requirements. To overcome these limitations, we propose Post-hoc Fairness Adaptation (PFA), a lightweight framework that equips a frozen recommender with a fairness adapter, enabling flexible fairness control without retraining the backbone model. Specifically, the fairness adapter learns personalized additive score adjustments from user-item embeddings, which are injected into the original ranking scores to steer provider exposure toward fairness. To train the adapter, we minimize the KL divergence between the actual and the target fair exposure distributions. However, this global objective implicitly treats all providers equally, ignoring structural disparities such as imbalanced provider group sizes and heterogeneous exposure within groups. Consequently, fairness may appear satisfied at an aggregate level while severe inter-group and intra-group exposure imbalances persist, undermining practical fairness. To address this, we design Hierarchical Exposure Fairness Alignment (HEFA), which explicitly balances inter- and intra-group provider exposure disparities, enabling flexible adaptation to diverse fairness requirements. To mitigate potential accuracy degradation, PFA jointly optimizes HEFA with a differentiable NDCG loss, enabling end-to-end fairness optimization while preserving ranking quality. Extensive experiments on three public datasets demonstrate that PFA achieves substantial fairness gains with negligible accuracy loss, consistently outperforming strong baselines.

公平性推荐系统后置适配

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