让推荐系统的物品标识符自动进化,提升生成式推荐效果。
Grevo: A Unified Generative Recommendation Framework with Evolutionary Item Indexing

- 将物品标识符视为可进化的离散变量,随用户行为动态调整。
- 在多个数据集上超越现有最优生成式推荐方法,提升显著。
- 无需额外模型或复杂训练调度,适合追求高效稳定推荐的场景。
生成式推荐近年兴起,将检索任务重构为对语义标识符(SIDs)的自回归生成,表现优异。然而,传统方法中SIDs由内容分词器固定,与用户行为预测能力不匹配。虽有端到端方法联合训练分词器与推荐器,但导致标识空间不稳定,需额外模型、对齐损失及精细交替优化。为此,我们提出Grevo:一种统一的生成式推荐框架,通过演化式物品索引,将SID分配本身视为可适应行为反馈的可进化离散变量,而非需训练的分词器。Grevo基于单一多任务推荐器,融合行为生成与语义锚定任务,使推荐器自身承担分词器角色。随后,利用训练好的推荐器作为后验评估器,在固定词汇表和长度下,对高风险标识进行预算重分配。该机制实现稳定、反馈驱动的索引构建,无需第二学习模型、对齐损失或交替优化。大量实验表明,Grevo在多个真实数据集上持续优于现有最先进生成式推荐方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Generative recommendation has recently emerged as a promising paradigm that reformulates retrieval as autoregressive generation over semantic identifiers (SIDs), achieving strong performance and drawing increasing attention as an alternative to matching. Despite this progress, SIDs are typically frozen by a content-based tokenizer before the recommender is trained, leaving a persistent gap between what best reconstructs an item's content and what a recommender can predict from user behavior. Recent end-to-end methods close this gap by jointly training the tokenizer and the recommender, but coupling the two destabilizes the identifier space and requires a second learnable model, alignment losses, and usually a delicate alternating-optimization schedule. To address this issue, we propose Grevo, a unified Generative recommendation framework with evolutionary item indexing, which treats the SID assignment itself as an evolvable discrete variable that adapts to behavioral feedback rather than as a tokenizer to be trained. Grevo builds on a single multitask recommender that unifies a behavioral SID generation task and a semantic SID grounding task, letting the recommender absorb the tokenizer's role. Through evolutionary item indexing, Grevo then uses the trained recommender itself as a posterior evaluator to reassign a budgeted set of high-risk identifiers under a fixed vocabulary and length. Together, these components turn index construction into a stable, feedback-driven search that requires no second learnable model, no alignment losses, and no alternating-optimization schedule. Extensive experiments on multiple real-world datasets demonstrate that Grevo consistently outperforms state-of-the-art generative recommendation methods.
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