CDC: Causal Domain Clustering for Multi-Domain Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06877v1
• Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:15:47 GMT
• Title: CDC: Causal Domain Clustering for Multi-Domain Recommendation
• Authors: Huishi Luo, Yiqing Wu, Yiwen Chen, Fuzhen Zhuang, Deqing Wang,
• Abstract summary: Multi-domain recommendation leverages domain-general knowledge to improve recommendations across several domains.<n>Existing domain grouping methods, based on business logic or data similarities, often fail to capture the true transfer relationships required for optimal grouping.<n>We propose Causal Domain Clustering (CDC) to effectively cluster domains.<n>CDC significantly enhances performance across over 50 domains on public datasets and in industrial settings, achieving a 4.9% increase in online eCPM.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Multi-domain recommendation leverages domain-general knowledge to improve recommendations across several domains. However, as platforms expand to dozens or hundreds of scenarios, training all domains in a unified model leads to performance degradation due to significant inter-domain differences. Existing domain grouping methods, based on business logic or data similarities, often fail to capture the true transfer relationships required for optimal grouping. To effectively cluster domains, we propose Causal Domain Clustering (CDC). CDC models domain transfer patterns within a large number of domains using two distinct effects: the Isolated Domain Affinity Matrix for modeling non-interactive domain transfers, and the Hybrid Domain Affinity Matrix for considering dynamic domain synergy or interference under joint training. To integrate these two transfer effects, we introduce causal discovery to calculate a cohesion-based coefficient that adaptively balances their contributions. A Co-Optimized Dynamic Clustering algorithm iteratively optimizes target domain clustering and source domain selection for training. CDC significantly enhances performance across over 50 domains on public datasets and in industrial settings, achieving a 4.9% increase in online eCPM. Code is available at https://github.com/Chrissie-Law/Causal-Domain-Clustering-for-Multi-Domain-Recommendation

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