arXiv:2605.11145cs.IRcs.LG2026-05

提出DPAA框架,让GNN推荐系统更公平地对待冷门物品

Debiasing Message Passing to Mitigate Popularity Bias in GNN-based Collaborative Filtering

  • 在消息传递中动态调整用户-物品交互权重,依据物品流行度的可变信号
  • 实验表明,模型在真实与半合成数据集上显著提升长尾物品推荐效果
  • 适合关注推荐系统公平性、尤其是冷门内容推荐的研究者与工程师

基于图神经网络(GNN)的协同过滤(CF)模型通过在交互图上传播用户-物品信号实现优异性能,但极易受流行度偏差影响:偏斜的交互分布与高阶邻域的重复消息传递会放大热门物品的影响,压制长尾物品。现有去偏方法(如重加权目标、正则化、因果方法和后处理)在GNN设置下效果有限,因未直接对抗聚合过程中的偏差传播;近期的聚合内加权方法多依赖静态启发式或不稳定的嵌入估计。本文提出一种名为DPAA的去偏框架,将自适应、嵌入感知的交互加权与逐层加权直接融入消息传递过程。DPAA从表示感知的流行度信号中生成交互级权重,并通过训练过程中预训练到演化的嵌入平滑过渡来稳定权重。同时引入层间加权机制,增强高阶邻域信息,凸显多样且曝光不足物品的长程交互。在真实世界与半合成数据集上的实验表明,DPAA优于当前最先进的GNN-CF去偏方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Collaborative filtering (CF) models based on graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance in recommender systems by propagating user-item signals over interaction graphs. However, they are highly susceptible to popularity bias, since skewed interaction distributions and repeated message passing across high-order neighborhoods amplify the influence of popular items while suppressing long-tail ones. Existing debiasing approaches, including re-weighting objectives, regularization, causal methods, and post-processing, are less effective in GNN-based settings because they do not directly counteract bias propagated through the aggregation process, and recent in-aggregation weighting methods often rely on static heuristics or unstable embedding estimates. We propose Debiasing Popularity Amplification in Aggregation (DPAA), a popularity debiasing framework for GNN-based CF that integrates adaptive, embedding-aware interaction weighting and layer-wise weighting directly into message passing. DPAA assigns interaction-level weights from a representation-aware popularity signal, stabilized by a smooth transition from pre-trained to evolving model embeddings during training. It further introduces a layer-wise weighting that amplifies higher-order neighborhoods, surfacing long-range interactions with diverse and underexposed items. Experiments on real-world and semi-synthetic datasets show that DPAA outperforms state-of-the-art popularity-bias correction methods for GNN-based CF.

推荐系统GNN去偏冷门物品

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