MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever

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Main Authors: Sun, Yijia, Huang, Shanshan, Che, Linxiao, Lu, Haitao, Luo, Qiang, Gai, Kun, Zhou, Guorui
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author Sun, Yijia
Huang, Shanshan
Che, Linxiao
Lu, Haitao
Luo, Qiang
Gai, Kun
Zhou, Guorui
author_facet Sun, Yijia
Huang, Shanshan
Che, Linxiao
Lu, Haitao
Luo, Qiang
Gai, Kun
Zhou, Guorui
contents Modern industrial recommendation systems encounter a core challenge of multi-stage optimization misalignment: a significant semantic gap exists between the multi-objective optimization paradigm widely used in the ranking phase and the single-objective modeling in the retrieve phase. Although the mainstream industry solution achieves multi-objective coverage through parallel multi-path single-objective retrieval, this approach leads to linear growth of training and serving resources with the number of objectives and has inherent limitations in handling loosely coupled objectives. This paper proposes the MPFormer, a dynamic multi-task Transformer framework, which systematically addresses the aforementioned issues through three innovative mechanisms. First, an objective-conditioned transformer that jointly encodes user behavior sequences and multi-task semantics through learnable attention modulation; second, personalized target weights are introduced to achieve dynamic adjustment of retrieval results; finally, user personalization information is incorporated into token representations and the Transformer structure to further enhance the model's representation ability. This framework has been successfully integrated into Kuaishou short video recommendation system, stably serving over 400 million daily active users. It significantly improves user daily engagement and system operational efficiency. Practical deployment verification shows that, compared with traditional solutions, it effectively optimizes the iterative paradigm of multi-objective retrieval while maintaining service response speed, providing a scalable multi-objective solution for industrial recommendation systems.
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spellingShingle MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever
Sun, Yijia
Huang, Shanshan
Che, Linxiao
Lu, Haitao
Luo, Qiang
Gai, Kun
Zhou, Guorui
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Modern industrial recommendation systems encounter a core challenge of multi-stage optimization misalignment: a significant semantic gap exists between the multi-objective optimization paradigm widely used in the ranking phase and the single-objective modeling in the retrieve phase. Although the mainstream industry solution achieves multi-objective coverage through parallel multi-path single-objective retrieval, this approach leads to linear growth of training and serving resources with the number of objectives and has inherent limitations in handling loosely coupled objectives. This paper proposes the MPFormer, a dynamic multi-task Transformer framework, which systematically addresses the aforementioned issues through three innovative mechanisms. First, an objective-conditioned transformer that jointly encodes user behavior sequences and multi-task semantics through learnable attention modulation; second, personalized target weights are introduced to achieve dynamic adjustment of retrieval results; finally, user personalization information is incorporated into token representations and the Transformer structure to further enhance the model's representation ability. This framework has been successfully integrated into Kuaishou short video recommendation system, stably serving over 400 million daily active users. It significantly improves user daily engagement and system operational efficiency. Practical deployment verification shows that, compared with traditional solutions, it effectively optimizes the iterative paradigm of multi-objective retrieval while maintaining service response speed, providing a scalable multi-objective solution for industrial recommendation systems.
title MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20400