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Generative Multi-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation

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Author

Jinqiu Jin, Yang Zhang, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He

Outline

This paper addresses the problem of multi-objective cross-domain recommendation (MTCDR), which aims to simultaneously improve recommendation performance across multiple domains. Existing MTCDR methods primarily rely on domain-shared entities (e.g., users or items) to fuse and transfer cross-domain knowledge, but they are ineffective in non-overlapping recommendation scenarios. Some studies address MTCDR by modeling user preferences and item features as domain-shared semantic representations, but this requires extensive auxiliary data for pretraining. Inspired by recent advances in generative recommendation, this paper presents GMC, a generative paradigm-based MTCDR approach. GMC integrates multi-domain knowledge within a unified generative model using semantically quantized discrete item identifiers. An item tokenizer is used to generate domain-shared semantic identifiers for each item, and a domain-integrated sequence-to-sequence model is trained to formulate item recommendation as a token generation task. To improve performance, domain-aware contrastive loss is incorporated into semantic identifier learning, and domain-specific fine-tuning of the unified recommender system is performed. Extensive experiments on five public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of GMC compared to several baseline methods.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present an effective method for cross-domain knowledge integration using semantically quantized discrete item identifiers.
We effectively address the MTCDR problem by leveraging a domain-integrated sequence-to-sequence model and domain-aware contrastive loss.
We experimentally demonstrate the superior performance of GMC on five public datasets compared to various baseline methods.
We provide an MTCDR method that works effectively even in non-overlapping recommendation scenarios.
Limitations:
There is a lack of analysis of the complexity and computational cost of the proposed GMC model.
Further research is needed on generalization performance across different types of domains and datasets.
A more in-depth analysis of the impact of item tokenizer performance on overall system performance is needed.
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