用异构图模型帮慈善粮仓智能推荐替代食品,兼顾口味、营养和相似性。
Beyond Similarity: Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Multi-Objective Food Substitution in Charitable Food Agencies

- 构建包含消费与营养信息的统一关系图,融合多源公开数据
- 在数据稀疏情况下仍保持推荐鲁棒性,准确预测消费行为
- 证明三目标独立需多目标优化,适合资源有限的机构使用
慈善粮食机构通过分发捐赠食品缓解食物短缺问题,但依赖随机捐赠常面临特定食品短缺,需提供替代品。合适的替代需兼顾家庭偏好、营养需求与物品相似性,而机构因资源限制缺乏直接消费记录,难以做出多目标决策。本文提出一种基于异构图神经网络(HeteroGNN)的源基推荐框架,利用美国大规模公开数据构建统一关系图,整合家庭消费行为与食品营养信息。将替代推荐建模为行为亲和、健康适宜性、替换相似性三个目标的多目标排序问题。在标准关系设置及冷启动(移除部分关系边)条件下训练验证,结果表明该框架能有效利用关系信息超越节点特征进行行为预测;在行为与营养特征不完整时仍具鲁棒性;且三目标间相关性弱,支持多目标建模。该框架可辅助资源有限的机构在信息不足下生成情境化替代推荐。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Charitable food agencies play an important role in alleviating food insecurity by distributing donated food to people in need. However, they rely on ad hoc in-kind donations and often face shortages of specific foods, so they offer substitutes. A good food substitution requires matching household preferences, nutritional needs, and item similarity. Agencies have limited direct records of consumption behavior due to resource constraints, making it challenging to make an appropriate substitution decision that meets multiple criteria. In this study, we propose a heterogeneous graph neural network (HeteroGNN), a source-grounded recommendation framework for food substitution in charitable food agencies. We first build a unified relational graph from large-scale public data sources, combining household behavior on food consumption and food nutrient information in the United States (US) context. We treat the substitution recommendation as a multi-objective ranking problem with three targets, including behavior affinity, health suitability, and substitution similarity. We train and validate the proposed framework under standard graph relationship and adverse cold-start settings by removing relational edges from the graph. Our results show that the proposed framework leverages relational information beyond node features in predicting consumption behavior. Additionally, the proposed framework remains robust with sparsity when the model receives incomplete information about behavior and nutrient features. Finally, we show the weak correlation among different objectives, thereby justifying the multi-objective framing as a replacement for an aggregated decision. The proposed framework can help downstream charitable agency decision-makers make contextspecific substitution recommendations with limited information available.
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