ReST: A Plug-and-Play Spatially-Constrained Representation Enhancement Framework for Local-Life Recommendation

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Main Authors: Jiang, Hao, Zhang, Long, Wang, Guoquan, Yu, Sheng, Zeng, Yang, Zeng, Wencong, Pan, Fei, Jiang, Peng, Zhou, Guorui
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author Jiang, Hao
Zhang, Long
Wang, Guoquan
Yu, Sheng
Zeng, Yang
Zeng, Wencong
Pan, Fei
Jiang, Peng
Zhou, Guorui
author_facet Jiang, Hao
Zhang, Long
Wang, Guoquan
Yu, Sheng
Zeng, Yang
Zeng, Wencong
Pan, Fei
Jiang, Peng
Zhou, Guorui
contents Local-life recommendation have witnessed rapid growth, providing users with convenient access to daily essentials. However, this domain faces two key challenges: (1) spatial constraints, driven by the requirements of the local-life scenario, where items are usually shown only to users within a limited geographic area, indirectly reducing their exposure probability; and (2) long-tail sparsity, where few popular items dominate user interactions, while many high-quality long-tail items are largely overlooked due to imbalanced interaction opportunities. Existing methods typically adopt a user-centric perspective, such as modeling spatial user preferences or enhancing long-tail representations with collaborative filtering signals. However, we argue that an item-centric perspective is more suitable for this domain, focusing on enhancing long-tail items representation that align with the spatially-constrained characteristics of local lifestyle services. To tackle this issue, we propose ReST, a Plug-And-Play Spatially-Constrained Representation Enhancement Framework for Long-Tail Local-Life Recommendation. Specifically, we first introduce a Meta ID Warm-up Network, which initializes fundamental ID representations by injecting their basic attribute-level semantic information. Subsequently, we propose a novel Spatially-Constrained ID Representation Enhancement Network (SIDENet) based on contrastive learning, which incorporates two efficient strategies: a spatially-constrained hard sampling strategy and a dynamic representation alignment strategy. This design adaptively identifies weak ID representations based on their attribute-level information during training. It additionally enhances them by capturing latent item relationships within the spatially-constrained characteristics of local lifestyle services, while preserving compatibility with popular items.
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spellingShingle ReST: A Plug-and-Play Spatially-Constrained Representation Enhancement Framework for Local-Life Recommendation
Jiang, Hao
Zhang, Long
Wang, Guoquan
Yu, Sheng
Zeng, Yang
Zeng, Wencong
Pan, Fei
Jiang, Peng
Zhou, Guorui
Information Retrieval
Local-life recommendation have witnessed rapid growth, providing users with convenient access to daily essentials. However, this domain faces two key challenges: (1) spatial constraints, driven by the requirements of the local-life scenario, where items are usually shown only to users within a limited geographic area, indirectly reducing their exposure probability; and (2) long-tail sparsity, where few popular items dominate user interactions, while many high-quality long-tail items are largely overlooked due to imbalanced interaction opportunities. Existing methods typically adopt a user-centric perspective, such as modeling spatial user preferences or enhancing long-tail representations with collaborative filtering signals. However, we argue that an item-centric perspective is more suitable for this domain, focusing on enhancing long-tail items representation that align with the spatially-constrained characteristics of local lifestyle services. To tackle this issue, we propose ReST, a Plug-And-Play Spatially-Constrained Representation Enhancement Framework for Long-Tail Local-Life Recommendation. Specifically, we first introduce a Meta ID Warm-up Network, which initializes fundamental ID representations by injecting their basic attribute-level semantic information. Subsequently, we propose a novel Spatially-Constrained ID Representation Enhancement Network (SIDENet) based on contrastive learning, which incorporates two efficient strategies: a spatially-constrained hard sampling strategy and a dynamic representation alignment strategy. This design adaptively identifies weak ID representations based on their attribute-level information during training. It additionally enhances them by capturing latent item relationships within the spatially-constrained characteristics of local lifestyle services, while preserving compatibility with popular items.
title ReST: A Plug-and-Play Spatially-Constrained Representation Enhancement Framework for Local-Life Recommendation
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12947