arXiv:2606.18897cs.IRcs.AI2026-06

用稀疏自编码器从文本构建细粒度可解释的用户意图,提升推荐精准度与可读性。

SAERec: Constructing Fine-grained Interpretable Intents Priors via Sparse Autoencoders for Recommendation

论文配图:SAERec: Constructing Fine-grained Interpretable Intents Priors via Sparse Autoencoders for Recommendation
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  • 通过稀疏自编码器从大模型隐空间解耦文本嵌入,自动提取细粒度意图
  • 在多个公开数据集上超越现有基线,平均提升0.8%-2.3%的AUC
  • 同时支持个性化与公共意图建模,结果可解释性强,适合需要透明推荐的场景

基于意图的推荐系统因能建模用户行为背后的动机而受到广泛关注。现有方法多直接从用户序列中聚类或学习原型来推导意图,但对序列质量敏感、需预设意图数量且缺乏明确语义基础,导致意图集合不完整且粗略,限制了推荐效果。本文提出SAERec,一种基于稀疏自编码器的意图推荐新模型,能从文本语料库中自动构建细粒度、可解释的意图空间以指导推荐。不同于将文本作为辅助信号,SAERec将文本视为高信息密度证据用于意图构造:首先利用稀疏自编码器(SAE)从大语言模型(LLM)的隐空间中提取丰富且可解释的细粒度意图,分离出与意图相关的语义并剔除文本噪声;然后为每个用户检索该意图集中相关意图作为先验,包含匹配当前兴趣的个人意图和反映跨用户共性模式的公共意图(如质量、价格);最后设计多分支注意力机制捕捉时序依赖,并注入个人与公共意图信号,再通过自适应融合层构建最终用户表征进行推荐。大量实验表明,SAERec在多个公开数据集上持续优于先进基线,平均提升0.8%-2.3%的AUC,并提供人类可理解的解释。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Intent-based recommender systems have gained significant attention for improving accuracy and interpretability by modeling the underlying motivations behind user behaviors. Most existing models derive intents directly from user sequences via clustering or prototype learning. However, they are sensitive to sequence quality, require presetting the number of intents, and lack explicit semantic grounding. These issues lead to an incomplete and coarse intent set and limit the effectiveness of recommendation. In this paper, we propose the Sparse Autoencoder for intent-based recommendation (SAERec), a novel recommender that automatically constructs a fine-grained and interpretable intent space from a textual corpus to guide recommendation. Rather than treating texts as side signals, SAERec leverages them as high information density evidence for intent construction. Specifically, we first extract a comprehensive set of fine-grained interpretable intents from the latent space of large language models (LLMs) by using a sparse autoencoder (SAE) to disentangle and interpret text embeddings, which isolates intent-related semantics from textual noise. Then, for each user, we retrieve relevant intents from this set as priors to guide recommendation. It contains personal intents matching a user's current interests and public intents capturing general item patterns shared across users (e.g., quality, price). Finally, to integrate retrieved intents into sequence modeling, we propose a multi-branch attention mechanism that captures temporal dependencies and injects both personal and public intent signals, followed by an adaptive fusion layer to construct the final user representation for recommendation. Extensive experiments on public datasets demonstrate the superiority of SAERec, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art baselines while providing human-understandable explanations.

推荐系统意图建模可解释性稀疏编码

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