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Changhao Li, Junwei Yin, Zhilin Zeng, Senjie Kou, Shuli Wang, Wenshuai Chen, Yinhua Zhu, Haitao Wang and 1 more

Meituan's MBGR framework, a generative recommendation system tailored for multi-business platforms, integrates business-aware representations and prediction modules to mitigate issues like "representation confusion" and the "seesaw phenomenon." This framework demonstrated a +3.98% improvement in weighted average CTCVR during online A/B testing on Meituan's food delivery platform, showing particular gains for smaller business categories.

Key insights

  • Explicitly incorporating business context into semantic ID learning and item prediction through BID and MBP modules effectively mitigates "representation confusion" and the "seesaw phenomenon" in multi-business settings.
  • Dynamically routing and weighting labels via LDR, combined with optimized business-specific weights, significantly enhances multi-business generation capability, especially for smaller business categories.
  • A multi-objective loss function, combining contrastive learning with semantic reconstruction, enables robust end-to-end training that balances prediction accuracy with semantic preservation.

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