GateSID: Adaptive Gating for Semantic-Collaborative Alignment in Cold-Start Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22916v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:04:41 GMT
• Title: GateSID: Adaptive Gating for Semantic-Collaborative Alignment in Cold-Start Recommendation
• Abstract summary: GateSID uses an adaptive gating network to balance semantic and collaborative signals according to item maturity.<n>Online A/B tests confirm its practical value, yielding +2.6% GMV, +1.1% CTR, and +1.6% orders with less than 5 ms additional latency.
• Score: 11.467903826119061
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In cold-start scenarios, the scarcity of collaborative signals for new items exacerbates the Matthew effect, which undermines platform diversity and remains a persistent challenge in real-world recommender systems. Existing methods typically enhance collaborative signals with semantic information, but they often suffer from a collaborative-semantic tradeoff: collaborative signals are effective for popular items but unreliable for cold-start items, whereas over-reliance on semantic information may obscure meaningful collaborative differences. To address this issue, we propose GateSID, a framework that uses an adaptive gating network to dynamically balance semantic and collaborative signals according to item maturity. Specifically, we first discretize multimodal features into hierarchical Semantic IDs using Residual Quantized VAE. Building on this representation, we design two key components: (1) Gating-Fused Shared Attention, which fuses intra-modal attention distributions with item-level gating weights derived from embeddings and statistical features; and (2) Gate-Regulated Contrastive Alignment, which adaptively calibrates cross-modal alignment, enforcing stronger semantic-behavior consistency for cold-start items while relaxing the constraint for popular items to preserve reliable collaborative signals. Extensive offline experiments on large-scale industrial datasets demonstrate that GateSID consistently outperforms strong baselines. Online A/B tests further confirm its practical value, yielding +2.6% GMV, +1.1% CTR, and +1.6% orders with less than 5 ms additional latency.

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