面向低活跃用户的不确定性校准推荐 / Uncertainty-Calibrated Recommendations for Low-Active Users
1️⃣ 一句话总结
本文提出了一种生产级推荐框架,通过量化模型预测的不确定性,对低活跃用户采用风险规避策略避免推荐低质量内容,对高活跃用户采用风险探索策略增加推荐多样性,从而显著提升了平台用户的留存时长和满意度。
A fundamental challenge in recommender systems is balancing reliability for Low-Active Users (LAUs) with diversity for High-Active Users (HAUs). The key to this balance lies in quantifying model uncertainty, which approximates the risk of prediction errors and reveals the limits of the model's current knowledge. On large-scale short-video and livestream platforms, model uncertainty can warn of low-quality recommendations that may lead to disengagement of LAUs and at the same time identify opportunities to diversify content recommendation for HAUs. To leverage this dichotomy, we introduce a unified, production-ready framework that calibrates uncertainty to drive differentiated strategies. Specifically, we implement a model-uncertainty-based risk-averse deboosting policy for LAUs to suppress unreliable recommendations, while employing a risk-seeking Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) strategy for HAUs to encourage exploration. Validated on a major livestream platform, our framework demonstrates significant improvements in retention (active hours) and satisfaction (quality watch time ratio) for LAUs as well as remarkable increases in interest diversity and category coverage for HAUs, proving the value of uncertainty-aware recommendation in industrial settings.
面向低活跃用户的不确定性校准推荐 / Uncertainty-Calibrated Recommendations for Low-Active Users
本文提出了一种生产级推荐框架,通过量化模型预测的不确定性,对低活跃用户采用风险规避策略避免推荐低质量内容,对高活跃用户采用风险探索策略增加推荐多样性,从而显著提升了平台用户的留存时长和满意度。
源自 arXiv: 2605.17788