用递归更新用户偏好,避免信息漂移,轻量高效。
RecRec: Recursive Refinement for Sequential Recommendation

- 通过递归模块持续优化用户偏好潜变量,保持上下文一致。
- 在三个数据集上表现超越或媲美顶尖模型,参数仅390万至1400万。
- 适合追求轻量、可解释性推荐系统的研究与应用者。
序列推荐系统通常通过单次编码交互历史推断用户偏好,依赖更深网络捕捉复杂模式。本文从递归推理角度重新思考序列推荐:用户偏好能否被建模为可递归更新的持久潜状态?我们提出RecRec(递归推荐),一个轻量级模型,维护紧凑的潜状态,并通过共享递归模块根据交互证据进行更新。不同于以往递归模型,RecRec引入基于证据锚定的修正机制,通过原始交互上下文约束每次更新,防止深层递归中的语义漂移。在三个基准数据集的标准评估协议下,RecRec的表现匹配或优于当前最优的序列、图结构及增强推理推荐模型,参数量仅为390万至1400万。消融实验表明,递归精炼与证据锚定修正门均显著提升性能,验证了递归潜推理作为更高效替代方案的有效性。代码已公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Sequential recommender systems typically infer user preferences through single-pass encoding of interaction histories without iterative refinement, relying on increasingly deep architectures to capture complex patterns. In this work, we revisit sequential recommendation from a recursive inference perspective: can user preferences be modeled as a persistent latent state that is recursively refined? We propose RecRec (Recursive Recommendation), a lightweight model that maintains a compact latent state and updates it through a shared recursive module conditioned on interaction evidence. Unlike prior recursive models, RecRec introduces an evidence-anchored correction mechanism that stabilizes refinement by grounding each update in the original interaction context, preventing semantic drift during deep recursive reasoning. Experiments on three benchmark datasets under standard evaluation protocols show that RecRec matches or outperforms state-of-the-art sequential, graph-based, and reasoning-enhanced recommenders while using only 3.9M to 14M parameters. Ablation studies demonstrate that both recursive refinement and the evidence-anchored correction gate contribute significantly to performance, highlighting the effectiveness of recursive latent inference as a scalable alternative to deeper or language-based architectures. Code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/RecRec-6B67/README.md.
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