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SourceFlow: Collaborative Source Coupling for Flow-Based Recommendation
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摘要
Diffusion-based recommenders learn user preferences by denoising interaction histories, but the added noise can distort the original preference signals. Flow-based collaborative filtering (CF) instead learns a discrete path from a sampled source to the user's observed training interactions (the target history), enabling inference in a few steps. Existing flow-based CF methods sample sources using global item frequencies to reflect the sparsity and popularity of observed interactions. Each source is sampled independently of its target history, leaving the predictor without user-specific source cues for learning to reconstruct that history. We propose SourceFlow, which brings collaborative structure into the source distribution itself rather than adding further conditioning to the predictor. Like inference from observed histories, training uses collaborative evidence to predict missing interactions. Specifically, Neighborhood Coupling constructs displaced binary sources by replacing historical items with unobserved collaborative alternatives. Collaborative Consensus further refines replacement probabilities using evidence from other interactions of users who share the observed item. Stretched Restoration retains these replacements at late flow times during training, providing more opportunities to recover the original interactions. Experiments on five recommendation datasets show consistent improvements over competitive baselines, including a mean relative Recall@10 gain of 15.7% over the strongest flow-based baseline. Controlled experiments confirm that these gains depend on correctly pairing collaborative sources with their target histories, as reassigning the same source vectors across users reverses the gains. Code will be publicly released upon acceptance.
作者备注：Under review. 12 pages, 9 figures
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SourceFlow: Collaborative Source Coupling for Flow-Based Recommendation
Diffusion-based recommenders learn user preferences by denoising interaction histories, but the added noise can distort the original preference signals. Flow-based collaborative filtering (CF) instead learns a discrete path from a sampled source to the user's observed training interactions (the target history), enabling inference in a few steps. Existing flow-based CF methods sample sources using global item frequencies to reflect the sparsity and popularity of observed interactions. Each source is sampled independently of its target history, leaving the predictor without user-specific source cues for learning to reconstruct that history. We propose SourceFlow, which brings collaborative structure into the source distribution itself rather than adding further conditioning to the predictor. Like inference from observed histories, training uses collaborative evidence to predict missing interactions. Specifically, Neighborhood Coupling constructs displaced binary sources by replacing historical items with unobserved collaborative alternatives. Collaborative Consensus further refines replacement probabilities using evidence from other interactions of users who share the observed item. Stretched Restoration retains these replacements at late flow times during training, providing more opportunities to recover the original interactions. Experiments on five recommendation datasets show consistent improvements over competitive baselines, including a mean relative Recall@10 gain of 15.7% over the strongest flow-based baseline. Controlled experiments confirm that these gains depend on correctly pairing collaborative sources with their target histories, as reassigning the same source vectors across users reverses the gains. Code will be publicly released upon acceptance.
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