基于对比解耦学习的推荐系统流行度偏差缓解

Popularity bias mitigation in recommender systems via contrastive decoupling learning

  • 摘要: 传统推荐系统训练范式通过自主曝光大量少数流行物品以优化训练损失,致使推荐结果出现流行度偏差. 已有研究通过因果嵌入等方法解耦流行度以缓解偏差,但忽视了物品质量和用户流行性倾向等因素,导致流行度解耦不充分. 基于该问题,提出一种基于对比学习的流行度解耦方法. 首先,用户侧引入流行性倾向特征,实现用户兴趣与流行性倾向的解耦;然后,物品侧引入质量评分任务,强化物品自身属性和流行度的解耦;最后,生成考虑流行度的有偏推荐和忽略流行度的无偏推荐. 实验在两个真实数据集上进行,结果表明该方法优于现有的解决方案.

     

    Abstract: The traditional training paradigm of recommendation systems optimizes training loss by autonomously exposing a large number of popular items, leading to popularity bias in the recommendation results. Existing research has attempted to mitigate this bias through methods like causal embedding to decouple popularity, but these methods overlook factors such as item quality and user conformity, resulting in insufficient decoupling of popularity. To address this issue, this paper proposes a popularity decoupling method based on contrastive learning. Firstly, user-side popularity tendency features are introduced to decouple user interests from their conformity. Then, on the item side, a quality scoring task is incorporated to strengthen the decoupling between item properties and popularity. Finally, two types of recommendations are generated, a biased recommendation that considers popularity, and an unbiased recommendation that ignores popularity. Experiments conducted on two real-world datasets show that this method outperforms existing solutions.

     

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