Graph Exploration Matters: Improving both individual-level and system-level diversity in WeChat Feed Recommender

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00009v1
• Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 19:25:32 GMT
• Title: Graph Exploration Matters: Improving both individual-level and system-level diversity in WeChat Feed Recommender
• Authors: Shuai Yang, Lixin Zhang, Feng Xia, Leyu Lin
• Abstract summary: Individual-level diversity and system-level diversity are both important for industrial recommender systems. We implement and deploy the combined system in WeChat App's Top Stories used by hundreds of millions of users.
• Score: 21.0013026365164
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: There are roughly three stages in real industrial recommendation systems, candidates generation (retrieval), ranking and reranking. Individual-level diversity and system-level diversity are both important for industrial recommender systems. The former focus on each single user's experience, while the latter focus on the difference among users. Graph-based retrieval strategies are inevitably hijacked by heavy users and popular items, leading to the convergence of candidates for users and the lack of system-level diversity. Meanwhile, in the reranking phase, Determinantal Point Process (DPP) is deployed to increase individual-level diverisity. Heavily relying on the semantic information of items, DPP suffers from clickbait and inaccurate attributes. Besides, most studies only focus on one of the two levels of diversity, and ignore the mutual influence among different stages in real recommender systems. We argue that individual-level diversity and system-level diversity should be viewed as an integrated problem, and we provide an efficient and deployable solution for web-scale recommenders. Generally, we propose to employ the retrieval graph information in diversity-based reranking, by which to weaken the hidden similarity of items exposed to users, and consequently gain more graph explorations to improve the system-level diveristy. Besides, we argue that users' propensity for diversity changes over time in content feed recommendation. Therefore, with the explored graph, we also propose to capture the user's real-time personalized propensity to the diversity. We implement and deploy the combined system in WeChat App's Top Stories used by hundreds of millions of users. Offline simulations and online A/B tests show our solution can effectively improve both user engagement and system revenue.

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