arXiv:2607.19189cs.IR2026-07

用分块删除法加速推荐系统解释,提升可扩展性。

Spectral Biclustering-Driven Scalability for Post-Hoc Explainability in Recommender Systems

论文配图:Spectral Biclustering-Driven Scalability for Post-Hoc Explainability in Recommender Systems
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  • 通过谱双聚类将用户和物品分组,批量删除交互块减少重训练次数。
  • 高排名推荐更依赖特定交互块,部分块提升效果,部分则损害质量。
  • 适合关注推荐透明性与可解释性的系统开发者和研究者。

推荐系统的可解释性对确保透明度、问责制和信任至关重要,但现有事后解释方法常面临严重可扩展性挑战。观察级删除诊断通过移除单个用户或物品后重新训练模型,提供反事实分析,但其成本随数据集规模快速上升。本文提出一种基于谱双聚类的块删除诊断框架,将用户和物品分组后批量移除交互块,显著降低重训练次数,生成用户群体、物品组及其交互层面的解释。在MovieLens和Amazon数据集上,针对奇异值分解与神经协同过滤两种推荐范式进行评估,结果表明:高排名推荐通常对特定交互块更敏感,部分块作为支持证据,部分则损害推荐质量;不同用户群体对块删除的敏感度各异,反映出对局部交互模式依赖程度的异质性。这些发现揭示了标准推荐指标无法呈现的诊断信息。总体而言,块删除诊断提供了一种实用且模型无关的事后分析框架,但解释效果依赖于所选块结构。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Explainability in recommender systems is essential for ensuring transparency, accountability, and trust, yet existing post-hoc methods often encounter severe scalability challenges. Observation-level deletion diagnostics offer a counterfactual way to analyze recommendations by retraining models after removing individual users or items, but their cost grows rapidly with dataset size. To improve the practical tractability of this analysis, this paper introduces a block-deletion diagnostic framework that uses spectral biclustering to group users and items and then removes entire blocks of interactions. This formulation reduces the number of retraining procedures relative to finer-grained deletion strategies and produces explanations at the level of user segments, item groups, and their interactions. The framework is evaluated on two representative recommender paradigms, Singular Value Decomposition and Neural Collaborative Filtering, using the MovieLens and Amazon datasets. The results show that top-ranked recommendations are often more sensitive to specific interaction blocks than lower-ranked ones, with some blocks acting as supporting evidence and others having a detrimental effect on recommendation quality. The analysis also indicates that user segments differ in their sensitivity to block removal, suggesting heterogeneous levels of reliance on localized interaction patterns. These findings provide diagnostic information that is not directly visible through standard recommendation metrics. Overall, the results suggest that block-deletion diagnostics offer a practical and model-agnostic post-hoc analysis framework for recommender systems, while also highlighting that the resulting explanations depend on the chosen block structure.

推荐系统可解释性谱聚类诊断分析

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