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When Diffusion Recommenders Stop Sampling: Preserving Generative Diversity
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摘要
A user history can admit multiple plausible next interactions, yet conventional sequential recommenders produce a single deterministic ranking. While diffusion models offer a natural way to sample alternative continuations, we show that existing target-item diffusion recommenders often suffer from severe sampling collapse, producing nearly identical outputs across independent draws. We identify two ubiquitous design choices that promote this collapse: joint learning of the latent space and denoiser, and in-trajectory supervision via discrete losses. To address these failure modes, we introduce DARTS (Diverse and Accurate Recommendation Through Sampling), a three-stage latent diffusion framework that explicitly decouples representation learning, generative modeling, and discrete ranking by learning and freezing the latent space before diffusion training and postponing ranking supervision to the final decoding stage. We further characterize sampling diversity using complementary measures of variation before and after decoding, and use posterior-predictive aggregation to exploit this diversity at inference. Across three Amazon Reviews 2023 categories, DARTS preserves substantially greater sampling diversity while outperforming strong sequential, generative-retrieval, and diffusion baselines by 7-12% on standard ranking metrics. Aggregating multiple samples further improves ranking accuracy at a fixed slate size.
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When Diffusion Recommenders Stop Sampling: Preserving Generative Diversity
A user history can admit multiple plausible next interactions, yet conventional sequential recommenders produce a single deterministic ranking. While diffusion models offer a natural way to sample alternative continuations, we show that existing target-item diffusion recommenders often suffer from severe sampling collapse, producing nearly identical outputs across independent draws. We identify two ubiquitous design choices that promote this collapse: joint learning of the latent space and denoiser, and in-trajectory supervision via discrete losses. To address these failure modes, we introduce DARTS (Diverse and Accurate Recommendation Through Sampling), a three-stage latent diffusion framework that explicitly decouples representation learning, generative modeling, and discrete ranking by learning and freezing the latent space before diffusion training and postponing ranking supervision to the final decoding stage. We further characterize sampling diversity using complementary measures of variation before and after decoding, and use posterior-predictive aggregation to exploit this diversity at inference. Across three Amazon Reviews 2023 categories, DARTS preserves substantially greater sampling diversity while outperforming strong sequential, generative-retrieval, and diffusion baselines by 7-12% on standard ranking metrics. Aggregating multiple samples further improves ranking accuracy at a fixed slate size.
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