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Unified Representation Learning for Multi-Intent Diversity and Behavioral Uncertainty in Recommender Systems

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04694v1
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:53:38 GMT
Title: Unified Representation Learning for Multi-Intent Diversity and Behavioral Uncertainty in Recommender Systems
Authors: Wei Xu, Jiasen Zheng, Junjiang Lin, Mingxuan Han, Junliang Du,
Abstract summary: This paper addresses the challenge of jointly modeling user intent diversity and behavioral uncertainty in recommender systems.<n>The framework builds a multi-intent representation module and an uncertainty modeling mechanism.<n>It extracts multi-granularity interest structures from user behavior sequences.
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Abstract: This paper addresses the challenge of jointly modeling user intent diversity and behavioral uncertainty in recommender systems. A unified representation learning framework is proposed. The framework builds a multi-intent representation module and an uncertainty modeling mechanism. It extracts multi-granularity interest structures from user behavior sequences. Behavioral ambiguity and preference fluctuation are captured using Bayesian distribution modeling. In the multi-intent modeling part, the model introduces multiple latent intent vectors. These vectors are weighted and fused using an attention mechanism to generate semantically rich representations of long-term user preferences. In the uncertainty modeling part, the model learns the mean and covariance of behavior representations through Gaussian distributions. This reflects the user's confidence in different behavioral contexts. Next, a learnable fusion strategy is used to combine long-term intent and short-term behavior signals. This produces the final user representation, improving both recommendation accuracy and robustness. The method is evaluated on standard public datasets. Experimental results show that it outperforms existing representative models across multiple metrics. It also demonstrates greater stability and adaptability under cold-start and behavioral disturbance scenarios. The approach alleviates modeling bottlenecks faced by traditional methods when dealing with complex user behavior. These findings confirm the effectiveness and practical value of the unified modeling strategy in real-world recommendation tasks.

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