A news recommendation model with dual-path semantic enhancement and bidirectionally-aware interest modeling
摘要
News recommendation systems alleviate information overload. Large-scale training and real-time serving involve massive logs and large candidate spaces, creating high-performance computing demands. Existing models face limitations in news semantic representation and user interest modeling. Many methods encode only title or content with a single encoder, failing to capture both local details and global topics, often ignoring the semantic complementarity between click-oriented titles and evidence-rich content. For user modeling, compressing interaction histories into a single vector cannot reflect diverse interests, while candidate-centric attention is sensitive to noisy behaviors. We propose a Dual-Path Bidirectionally-Aware Interest Model (DPBIM). DPBIM enhances news encoding via multi-scale semantic aggregation and title-content interaction. It models users with multiple latent interest subspaces to represent diverse interests and introduces bidirectional historical-candidate attention for matching and noise suppression. Experiments on the MIND benchmark show that DPBIM consistently improves over a range of strong baselines and achieves the best results among the compared methods on AUC, MRR, and nDCG.