Multi-step denoising retrieval with progressive mixture-of-experts for sequential recommendation
摘要
Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next item a user will interact with based on their historical behaviors. However, real-world interaction sequences often contain irrelevant items, and existing models generally fail to filter out these interactions, thereby propagating noisy contextual information that degrades recommendation accuracy. To address this issue, we propose MDR, a novel Multi-step Denoising Retrieval framework for sequential recommendation. MDR designs a selective denoising Transformer block that progressively suppresses noisy patterns and captures denoised sequential dependencies. To further enhance representation quality, we design a multi-step retrieval paradigm equipped with an Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based fusing module, which adaptively integrates fine-grained temporal representations through a gating mechanism. This design not only strengthens contextual modeling but also improves robustness against noisy or perturbed interactions. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate that MDR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art sequential recommendation methods in terms of both effectiveness and robustness, validating the superiority of our denoising-driven design.