解决推荐系统中相似项压制异质关系的问题,提升序列推荐准确率。
From Overlooked to Explored: Recovering Item Relations via Mixture of Perspectives for Sequential Recommendation

- 引入多视角注意力机制,从同质与异质双角度重审物品间关系。
- 在七个真实数据集上均超越当前最佳模型,显著提升推荐效果。
- 适合关注推荐系统中偏好建模与注意力机制改进的研究者。
捕捉用户交互序列中的偏好是序列推荐(SR)的核心挑战。这种偏好源于物品间的相互关系:每次物品转换都反映了嵌入在物品关系中的偏好,因此准确捕捉这些关系对推荐至关重要。尽管自注意力机制因能计算成对物品交互而在序列推荐中占主导地位,但我们的实证分析发现,基于Transformer的各类模型普遍存在相似性偏差:点积注意力得分过度青睐相似物品,系统性忽略具有重要偏好信号的异质关系,直接限制了推荐性能。为此,我们提出PRISM(多视角关系洞察融合模块),该模块从多个视角重新审视物品关系。PRISM采用K个视角透镜,分别通过亲和视角优化同质关系,对比视角揭示被相似性偏差压制的异质关系,使模型能够捕捉用户偏好的完整谱系。在七个真实世界基准上的大量实验表明,PRISM始终优于现有最先进基线。代码已公开于https://github.com/327aem/PRISM/。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Capturing user preference from a user's interaction sequence is the central challenge of Sequential Recommendation (SR). This preference intuitively emerges from inter-item relations: each item transition reflects a preference embedded in the relations between items, making the faithful capture of these relations essential for accurate recommendation. For this reason, self-attention is dominant in sequential recommendation for its ability to compute pairwise item interactions, yet our empirical analysis reveals that it consistently suffers from similarity bias across various types of transformer-based SR models: dot-product attention scores disproportionately favor similar items, systematically overlooking heterogeneous relations with meaningful preference signals and directly limiting recommendation performance. To address this, we propose PRISM (Perspective-based Relational Insight Synthesis Module), a module that re-examines item relations from multiple perspectives. PRISM employs K Perspective Lenses to calibrate attention from distinct viewpoints, combining an Affinity View that refines homogeneous relations and a Contrast View that exposes heterogeneous ones suppressed by similarity bias, enabling the model to capture the full spectrum of user preferences. Extensive experiments on seven real-world benchmarks demonstrate that PRISM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. Our code is available at https://github.com/327aem/PRISM/.
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