From Agnostic to Specific: Latent Preference Diffusion for Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommendation

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Hauptverfasser: Yang, Ruochen, Li, Xiaodong, Sheng, Jiawei, Cao, Jiangxia, Lin, Xinkui, Wang, Shen, Yang, Shuang, Liu, Zhaojie, Liu, Tingwen
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author Yang, Ruochen
Li, Xiaodong
Sheng, Jiawei
Cao, Jiangxia
Lin, Xinkui
Wang, Shen
Yang, Shuang
Liu, Zhaojie
Liu, Tingwen
author_facet Yang, Ruochen
Li, Xiaodong
Sheng, Jiawei
Cao, Jiangxia
Lin, Xinkui
Wang, Shen
Yang, Shuang
Liu, Zhaojie
Liu, Tingwen
contents Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSR) aims to learn the dynamic and heterogeneous interactions of users' multi-behavior sequences, so as to capture user preferences under target behavior for the next interacted item prediction. Unlike previous methods that adopt unidirectional modeling by mapping auxiliary behaviors to target behavior, recent concerns are shifting from behavior-fixed to behavior-specific recommendation. However, these methods still ignore the user's latent preference that underlying decision-making, leading to suboptimal solutions. Meanwhile, due to the asymmetric deterministic between items and behaviors, discriminative paradigm based on preference scoring is unsuitable to capture the uncertainty from low-entropy behaviors to high-entropy items, failing to provide efficient and diverse recommendation. To address these challenges, we propose \textbf{FatsMB}, a framework based diffusion model that guides preference generation \textit{\textbf{F}rom Behavior-\textbf{A}gnostic \textbf{T}o Behavior-\textbf{S}pecific} in latent spaces, enabling diverse and accurate \textit{\textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{B}ehavior Sequential Recommendation}. Specifically, we design a Multi-Behavior AutoEncoder (MBAE) to construct a unified user latent preference space, facilitating interaction and collaboration across Behaviors, within Behavior-aware RoPE (BaRoPE) employed for multiple information fusion. Subsequently, we conduct target behavior-specific preference transfer in the latent space, enriching with informative priors. A Multi-Condition Guided Layer Normalization (MCGLN) is introduced for the denoising. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.
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spellingShingle From Agnostic to Specific: Latent Preference Diffusion for Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommendation
Yang, Ruochen
Li, Xiaodong
Sheng, Jiawei
Cao, Jiangxia
Lin, Xinkui
Wang, Shen
Yang, Shuang
Liu, Zhaojie
Liu, Tingwen
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSR) aims to learn the dynamic and heterogeneous interactions of users' multi-behavior sequences, so as to capture user preferences under target behavior for the next interacted item prediction. Unlike previous methods that adopt unidirectional modeling by mapping auxiliary behaviors to target behavior, recent concerns are shifting from behavior-fixed to behavior-specific recommendation. However, these methods still ignore the user's latent preference that underlying decision-making, leading to suboptimal solutions. Meanwhile, due to the asymmetric deterministic between items and behaviors, discriminative paradigm based on preference scoring is unsuitable to capture the uncertainty from low-entropy behaviors to high-entropy items, failing to provide efficient and diverse recommendation. To address these challenges, we propose \textbf{FatsMB}, a framework based diffusion model that guides preference generation \textit{\textbf{F}rom Behavior-\textbf{A}gnostic \textbf{T}o Behavior-\textbf{S}pecific} in latent spaces, enabling diverse and accurate \textit{\textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{B}ehavior Sequential Recommendation}. Specifically, we design a Multi-Behavior AutoEncoder (MBAE) to construct a unified user latent preference space, facilitating interaction and collaboration across Behaviors, within Behavior-aware RoPE (BaRoPE) employed for multiple information fusion. Subsequently, we conduct target behavior-specific preference transfer in the latent space, enriching with informative priors. A Multi-Condition Guided Layer Normalization (MCGLN) is introduced for the denoising. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.
title From Agnostic to Specific: Latent Preference Diffusion for Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommendation
topic Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23132