When Relevance Meets Novelty: Dual-Stable Periodic Optimization for Serendipitous Recommendation

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Main Authors: Lin, Hongxiang, Guo, Hao, Li, Zeshun, Xue, Erpeng, He, Yongqian, Hu, Zhaoyu, Wang, Lei, Chen, Sheng, Zeng, Long
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author Lin, Hongxiang
Guo, Hao
Li, Zeshun
Xue, Erpeng
He, Yongqian
Hu, Zhaoyu
Wang, Lei
Chen, Sheng
Zeng, Long
author_facet Lin, Hongxiang
Guo, Hao
Li, Zeshun
Xue, Erpeng
He, Yongqian
Hu, Zhaoyu
Wang, Lei
Chen, Sheng
Zeng, Long
contents Traditional recommendation systems tend to trap users in strong feedback loops by excessively pushing content aligned with their historical preferences, thereby limiting exploration opportunities and causing content fatigue. Although large language models (LLMs) demonstrate potential with their diverse content generation capabilities, existing LLM-enhanced dual-model frameworks face two major limitations: first, they overlook long-term preferences driven by group identity, leading to biased interest modeling; second, they suffer from static optimization flaws, as a one-time alignment process fails to leverage incremental user data for closed-loop optimization. To address these challenges, we propose the Co-Evolutionary Alignment (CoEA) method. For interest modeling bias, we introduce Dual-Stable Interest Exploration (DSIE) module, jointly modeling long-term group identity and short-term individual interests through parallel processing of behavioral sequences. For static optimization limitations, we design a Periodic Collaborative Optimization (PCO) mechanism. This mechanism regularly conducts preference verification on incremental data using the Relevance LLM, then guides the Novelty LLM to perform fine-tuning based on the verification results, and subsequently feeds back the output of the continually fine-tuned Novelty LLM to the Relevance LLM for re-evaluation, thereby achieving a dynamic closed-loop optimization. Extensive online and offline experiments verify the effectiveness of the CoEA model in serendipitous recommendation.
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spellingShingle When Relevance Meets Novelty: Dual-Stable Periodic Optimization for Serendipitous Recommendation
Lin, Hongxiang
Guo, Hao
Li, Zeshun
Xue, Erpeng
He, Yongqian
Hu, Zhaoyu
Wang, Lei
Chen, Sheng
Zeng, Long
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Traditional recommendation systems tend to trap users in strong feedback loops by excessively pushing content aligned with their historical preferences, thereby limiting exploration opportunities and causing content fatigue. Although large language models (LLMs) demonstrate potential with their diverse content generation capabilities, existing LLM-enhanced dual-model frameworks face two major limitations: first, they overlook long-term preferences driven by group identity, leading to biased interest modeling; second, they suffer from static optimization flaws, as a one-time alignment process fails to leverage incremental user data for closed-loop optimization. To address these challenges, we propose the Co-Evolutionary Alignment (CoEA) method. For interest modeling bias, we introduce Dual-Stable Interest Exploration (DSIE) module, jointly modeling long-term group identity and short-term individual interests through parallel processing of behavioral sequences. For static optimization limitations, we design a Periodic Collaborative Optimization (PCO) mechanism. This mechanism regularly conducts preference verification on incremental data using the Relevance LLM, then guides the Novelty LLM to perform fine-tuning based on the verification results, and subsequently feeds back the output of the continually fine-tuned Novelty LLM to the Relevance LLM for re-evaluation, thereby achieving a dynamic closed-loop optimization. Extensive online and offline experiments verify the effectiveness of the CoEA model in serendipitous recommendation.
title When Relevance Meets Novelty: Dual-Stable Periodic Optimization for Serendipitous Recommendation
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00450