Knowledge-Geometry Decoupling: Refreshable Pretrained Transfer for Streaming Recommendation
This work addresses the challenge of transferring and continually updating pre-trained knowledge in recommender systems under behavioral distribution shifts. To this end, the authors propose a knowledge–geometry disentanglement framework that extracts transferable knowledge via Behavior Multi-Token Prediction (BMTP) and decouples knowledge encoding from task-specific geometric learning through read-only cross-attention, Anchored Calibration Residuals (ACR), and orthogonal embedding spaces. This design enables interference-free knowledge updates and efficient downstream adaptation. The method consistently outperforms strong baselines by 4–12% across eight public benchmarks and demonstrates sustained effectiveness on Shopee’s 90-day online streaming data, with A/B tests showing a 1.75% increase in per-user GMV and a 1.53% boost in ad revenue.