arXiv:2608.15780cs.IRcs.AI2026-08

提出双滤器框架,精准识别推荐内容的过时问题。

Decomposing Staleness in Recommender Systems: A Dual-Filter Framework for Supersession and Decay

论文配图:Decomposing Staleness in Recommender Systems: A Dual-Filter Framework for Supersession and Decay
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  • 用关系模型检测内容更新导致的过时,用流量预测模型捕捉自然衰减。
  • 上线两年后用户反馈过时内容减少54.9%,显著提升体验。
  • 适合大规模推荐系统优化,尤其关注内容时效性的平台参考。

过时推荐是大型内容平台普遍存在的问题,主要由两种机制引发:一是新内容出现导致旧内容过时(超期),二是信息价值随生命周期自然衰减。传统方法如时间阈值或基于互动的启发式策略难以准确反映真实相关性损失。本文提出SDF(超期-衰减过滤)系统,已在谷歌Discover中部署,服务于数亿日活与数十亿月活用户。该系统通过两个互补的机器学习模型实现精准过滤:关系过时模型用于检测内容对之间的超期关系;预测流量比率(PTR)模型则基于内容特征和全生命周期访问数据,预测信息衰减趋势。这两个过滤器在排序前以并联方式应用,有效剔除过时候选内容,显著降低下游服务成本。在线实验表明,该方案大幅减少了过时内容的曝光,同时提升了用户参与度。两年生产部署数据显示,用户提交的过时反馈下降了54.9%,验证了SDF在工业级规模下解决内容过时问题的鲁棒性与可扩展性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Stale recommendations are a pervasive challenge and a leading source of user complaints on large-scale content platforms. Items lose relevance through two primary mechanisms: supersession, where emerging updates render prior coverage stale, and relevance decay, where an item's informational value naturally diminishes over its lifecycle. Traditional countermeasures serve as crude proxies: age cutoffs poorly reflect actual relevance loss, while engagement heuristics rely on lagging signals, broadly exposing users to stale content before the system adapts. We present SDF (Supersession-Decay Filtering), a staleness filtering system fully deployed in Google Discover, a personalized recommendation feed with hundreds of millions of daily and billions of monthly active users. SDF targets both mechanisms with complementary filters, each powered by a learned model: a relational staleness model that detects supersession between item pairs, and a predicted traffic ratio (PTR) model that forecasts relevance decay from the item's content, trained on lifetime visit traffic. Applied via disjunction upstream of the ranking stage, SDF prunes stale candidates, measurably reducing downstream serving costs. Online experiments demonstrate that these filters significantly reduce the prevalence of stale content while improving user engagement. Over a two-year production deployment, user-filed staleness reports (in-product user feedback) declined by 54.9% relative to the pre-deployment baseline, establishing SDF as a robust and scalable paradigm for resolving content staleness at industrial scale.

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