给推荐系统注入时间间隔信息,让模型更懂用户兴趣变化
Beyond Item Order: Temporal Gap Tokenization for Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs

- 用时间间隔预测辅助学习物品表示,增强时序感知
- 将历史交互时间差离散为固定间隔标记,插入生成序列中
- 在长间隔场景下效果更优,适合关注用户兴趣漂移的场景
基于语义ID的生成式推荐最近成为一种可扩展的序列推荐范式,其中每个物品由一组紧凑的离散代码表示,下一步物品预测被建模为代码生成。然而,现有方法通常将用户历史构建为静态物品标识符序列,忽略了连续交互间的时间间隔。这种时间盲区存在问题,因为交互间隔能提供关于兴趣连续性和偏好漂移的有用线索。本文提出ChronoSID,一种轻量级的时间增强框架,用于语义ID-based生成式推荐。ChronoSID从两个互补视角向标准三阶段语义ID流程注入时间信号:首先引入时间感知领域感知掩码自编码(TA-FAMAE),通过辅助的时间间隔预测目标正则化物品表示学习;其次,将历史交互间隔离散化为固定对数尺度的间隔标记,并将其与语义ID元组交错作为序列到序列生成器的编码器输入。该设计在保持紧凑的SID生成范式的同时,使模型能够捕捉时间感知的转移模式。在Amazon评论数据集上的实验表明,ChronoSID在ReSID及其他竞争性生成式推荐基线基础上持续提升。消融研究进一步验证了两个时间组件的贡献,诊断分析显示在长间隔场景下收益更明显,此时用户兴趣更可能发生漂移。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Semantic-ID-based generative recommendation has recently emerged as a scalable paradigm for sequential recommendation, where each item is represented by a compact sequence of discrete codes and next-item prediction is formulated as code generation. Existing methods, however, typically construct user histories as sequences of static item identifiers, leaving the elapsed time between consecutive interactions outside the generative input. This temporal blindness is problematic because inter-interaction gaps provide useful cues about interest continuity and preference drift. In this paper, we propose ChronoSID, a lightweight temporal augmentation framework for semantic-ID-based generative recommendation. ChronoSID injects temporal signals into the standard three-stage semantic-ID pipeline from two complementary perspectives. First, we introduce Time-Aware Field-Aware Masked Auto-Encoding (TA-FAMAE), which regularizes item representation learning with an auxiliary time-gap prediction objective. Second, we discretize historical interaction intervals into fixed log-scale gap tokens and interleave them with semantic ID tuples as the encoder input of the sequence-to sequence generator. This design preserves the compact SID generation paradigm while enabling the model to capture time-aware transition patterns. Experiments on Amazon review benchmarks show that ChronoSID consistently improves over ReSID and other competitive generative recommendation baselines. Ablation studies further verify the contribution of both temporal components, and diagnostic analyses show clearer gains under long-gap scenarios where user interests are more likely to drift.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。