Echoes in Filter Bubble: Diagnosing and Curing Popularity Bias in Generative Recommenders
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| author | Yin, Jun Zhu, Bangguo Huo, Peng Liu, Ruochen Chen, Hao Wang, Senzhang Pan, Shirui Zhang, Chengqi |
| author_facet | Yin, Jun Zhu, Bangguo Huo, Peng Liu, Ruochen Chen, Hao Wang, Senzhang Pan, Shirui Zhang, Chengqi |
| contents | Recently, Generative Recommenders (GRs), characterized by a unified end-to-end framework, have exhibited astonishing potential in transforming the recommendation paradigm. Despite their effectiveness, we recognize that GRs are still susceptible to the long-standing issue of popularity bias that has pervaded the recommendation community. Although a few studies have attempted to extend traditional debiasing methods to GRs, their effectiveness is marginal, and the fundamental reason why GRs suffer from popularity bias remains under-explored. To bridge this gap, this study focuses on two core aspects in GRs: the optimization of generative framework and the item tokenization based on semantic index. Based on theoretical analyses, we identify that the severe popularity bias emerges from the confluence of a token-level optimization flaw and the undifferentiated property of item tokenization. Accordingly, this study develops a novel generative recommender system, called Ghost, by designing the asymmetric unlikelihood optimization and the skeleton-founded tokenization. Extensive empirical evaluations across three datasets, alongside multiple SOTA baselines, reveal that Ghost substantially alleviates popularity bias and promotes fairer recommendations, while incurring slight degradation to the overall recommendation utility. |
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| spellingShingle | Echoes in Filter Bubble: Diagnosing and Curing Popularity Bias in Generative Recommenders Yin, Jun Zhu, Bangguo Huo, Peng Liu, Ruochen Chen, Hao Wang, Senzhang Pan, Shirui Zhang, Chengqi Information Retrieval Artificial Intelligence Recently, Generative Recommenders (GRs), characterized by a unified end-to-end framework, have exhibited astonishing potential in transforming the recommendation paradigm. Despite their effectiveness, we recognize that GRs are still susceptible to the long-standing issue of popularity bias that has pervaded the recommendation community. Although a few studies have attempted to extend traditional debiasing methods to GRs, their effectiveness is marginal, and the fundamental reason why GRs suffer from popularity bias remains under-explored. To bridge this gap, this study focuses on two core aspects in GRs: the optimization of generative framework and the item tokenization based on semantic index. Based on theoretical analyses, we identify that the severe popularity bias emerges from the confluence of a token-level optimization flaw and the undifferentiated property of item tokenization. Accordingly, this study develops a novel generative recommender system, called Ghost, by designing the asymmetric unlikelihood optimization and the skeleton-founded tokenization. Extensive empirical evaluations across three datasets, alongside multiple SOTA baselines, reveal that Ghost substantially alleviates popularity bias and promotes fairer recommendations, while incurring slight degradation to the overall recommendation utility. |
| title | Echoes in Filter Bubble: Diagnosing and Curing Popularity Bias in Generative Recommenders |
| topic | Information Retrieval Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16825 |