Beyond a Single Story: Meta-Reviewing Sparse and Incomplete User-generated Contents for Recommendation

2026-08-27

AI Summary

为解决用户生成内容的稀疏和不完整问题，提出MOSAIC方法，通过聚合邻近用户评论中的属性-情感证据来提高推荐准确性和解释质量。

Abstract

Data sparsity remains a long-standing challenge in recommender systems, and it becomes more severe for methods relying on user-generated content (UGC) such as textual reviews, which capture fine-grained preferences but require more user efforts to produce. As a result, UGC exhibits (1) missing reviews, where interactions lack any review, and (2) incomplete reviews, where available reviews cover only a subset of relevant attributes. Existing approaches often overlook these UGC-specific issues, leading to degraded accuracy. Motivated by meta-review in academic peer review, we propose MOSAIC (Meta-review On Sparse And Incomplete user-generated Content), which constructs a meta-review for each target user by aggregating attribute-sentiment evidence from neighbor users' reviews. A multi-gate mixture-of-experts (MMoE) architecture jointly optimizes rating prediction and meta-review attribute-sentiment prediction, while an attention module personalizes the aggregated meta-review signals to each target user, yielding both refined rating predictions and attribute-level explanations. Experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate that MOSAIC consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both recommendation accuracy and explanation quality, mitigating UGC sparsity and incompleteness while delivering consistent gains for users with limited interaction history.

Problem

• Data Sparsity
• User-generated Content
• Incomplete Reviews
• Missing Reviews
• Recommender Systems

Innovation

• MOSAIC
• Meta-review
• MMoE
• Attribute-sentiment prediction
• Attention module