arXiv:2607.23762cs.IRcs.AI2026-07

让推荐生成路径避开无效区域,提升稀疏场景下的推荐质量

Escaping the Euclidean Void: Manifold-Informed Flow Matching for Sequential Recommendation

论文配图:Escaping the Euclidean Void: Manifold-Informed Flow Matching for Sequential Recommendation
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  • 用共现图引导嵌入空间修正,使生成路径更贴近真实语义
  • 在四个真实数据集上显著超越现有方法,尤其改善稀疏目标性能
  • 训练时引入图结构,推理时无需额外计算,适合实时系统

传统推荐模型通过优化用户-物品交互来捕捉偏好,而连续生成式推荐还学习目标物品的合成轨迹。流匹配通过在连续嵌入空间中逐步将初始噪声转化为确定的下一物品表示,利用中间状态完成该过程。然而,物品目录是离散且稀疏支持的,即使直线欧氏路径也可能穿越缺乏有效物品语义证据的区域,我们将其称为‘欧氏空洞’。为此,提出MIRAGE——一种用于序列推荐中嵌入加速生成的流形感知修正框架,通过保持原始概率路径不变,在训练阶段利用物品共现图作为潜在语义流形的代理,将插值路径状态对齐至局部锚点,重构嵌入空间以确保轨迹建立在有效物品支持之上。该方法仅在训练时使用图结构,推理时可实现单步快速生成。在四个真实数据集上的大量实验表明,MIRAGE持续优于现有先进基线,在稀疏观测目标上显著提升性能,同时保持整体准确率鲁棒性。代码将在发表后公开。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Conventional recommenders capture users' preferences by optimizing observed user-item relations, whereas continuous generative recommendation additionally learns the trajectory of synthesizing a target item. Flow matching drives this process by gradually shaping initial noise into a definitive next-item representation through intermediate states in a continuous embedding space. However, item catalogs are discrete and sparsely supported, meaning even a straight Euclidean path can cross continuous regions that contain little evidence of valid item semantics. Formalizing this failure as the Euclidean void, we propose MIRAGE, a Manifold-Informed Rectification framework for Accelerated Generation of Embeddings in sequential recommendation, which rectifies the learned embedding geometry around an unchanged straight probability path. By leveraging an item co-occurrence graph as a proxy for the underlying semantic manifold, MIRAGE aligns interpolated path states with local anchors, reorganizing the embedding space to ground the trajectory in valid item support. MIRAGE retains the original probability path and uses the graph only during training, thereby enabling accurate and efficient one-step inference. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets reveal that MIRAGE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, effectively boosting performance on sparsely observed targets while achieving robust overall accuracy. Our code will be made publicly available upon publication.

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