KARMA:淘宝个性化搜索中基于知识-动作正则化的多模态对齐方法 / KARMA: Knowledge-Action Regularized Multimodal Alignment for Personalized Search at Taobao
1️⃣ 一句话总结
这篇论文提出了一种名为KARMA的新方法,通过引入知识正则化来防止大语言模型在个性化推荐任务训练中丢失其原有的语义理解能力,从而有效提升了淘宝搜索系统的推荐准确性和用户体验。
Large Language Models (LLMs) are equipped with profound semantic knowledge, making them a natural choice for injecting semantic generalization into personalized search systems. However, in practice we find that directly fine-tuning LLMs on industrial personalized tasks (e.g. next item prediction) often yields suboptimal results. We attribute this bottleneck to a critical Knowledge--Action Gap: the inherent conflict between preserving pre-trained semantic knowledge and aligning with specific personalized actions by discriminative objectives. Empirically, action-only training objectives induce Semantic Collapse, such as attention ``sinks''. This degradation severely cripples the LLM's generalization, failing to bring improvements to personalized search systems. We propose KARMA (Knowledge--Action Regularized Multimodal Alignment), a unified framework that treats semantic reconstruction as a train-only regularizer. KARMA optimizes a next-interest embedding for retrieval (Action) while enforcing semantic decodability (Knowledge) through two complementary objectives: (i) history-conditioned semantic generation, which anchors optimization to the LLM's native next-token distribution, and (ii) embedding-conditioned semantic reconstruction, which constrains the interest embedding to remain semantically recoverable. On Taobao search system, KARMA mitigates semantic collapse (attention-sink analysis) and improves both action metrics and semantic fidelity. In ablations, semantic decodability yields up to +22.5 HR@200. With KARMA, we achieve +0.25 CTR AUC in ranking, +1.86 HR in pre-ranking and +2.51 HR in recalling. Deployed online with low inference overhead at ranking stage, KARMA drives +0.5% increase in Item Click.
KARMA:淘宝个性化搜索中基于知识-动作正则化的多模态对齐方法 / KARMA: Knowledge-Action Regularized Multimodal Alignment for Personalized Search at Taobao
这篇论文提出了一种名为KARMA的新方法,通过引入知识正则化来防止大语言模型在个性化推荐任务训练中丢失其原有的语义理解能力,从而有效提升了淘宝搜索系统的推荐准确性和用户体验。
源自 arXiv: 2603.22779