计算机技术与发展2024，Vol.34Issue(9)：9-15,7.DOI:10.20165/j.cnki.ISSN1673-629X.2024.0162
去除推荐场景多混淆因子的因果去偏方法
Causal Debias Method for Multiple Confounding Factors in Recommendation
摘要
Abstract
How to eliminate the bias problem existing in recommendation is a major challenge for recommender systems to improve their effectiveness.The existing recommendation models only fit the data,and eliminating bias based on correlation may be affected by spurious correlations.Eliminating bias based on causal relationships is difficult to extract more comprehensive causal relationships due to the complex scene.Therefore,it is necessary to consider the causal relationships between various factors as much as possible and eliminating bias issues.We study the causal relationship of the two confounding factors in the recommendation process,namely,the dis-tribution imbalance of user behavior in item classification and item category popularity.A de-confound method is proposed that considers multiple factors to effectively eliminate the bias problem in recommendation.Firstly,the causal relationship between variables in the rec-ommendation is analyzed and a causal graph is constructed.Secondly,the false correlation as well as the bias caused by the two confounding factors are eliminated using front-door adjustment and back-door adjustment.Finally,the proposed method is applied to neural factorization machines,and experimentally validated on two publicly available datasets,the results show that the proposed method has varying degrees of improvement compared to the current optimal method.关键词
因果推断/前门调整/后门调整/多混淆因子/因果图Key words
causal inference/front-door adjustment/back-door adjustment/multiple confounding factors/causal graph分类
信息技术与安全科学引用本文复制引用
杨庚杭,沈苏彬..去除推荐场景多混淆因子的因果去偏方法[J].计算机技术与发展,2024,34(9):9-15,7.基金项目
国家自然科学基金(62002174) （62002174）
