KGD

This repository provides a reference implementation of KGD, using ManCAR as the backbone on eight public benchmarks, from our paper:

Zixuan Wang, Yuhong Chen, Yuxuan Zhu, Guidong Lei, Zhiluohan Guo, Yu Zhao, Kun Wang, Bangyang Hong, Kangle Wu, Yabo Ni, Anxiang Zeng, Cong Fu, and Hui Li. Knowledge–Geometry Decoupling: Refreshable Pretrained Transfer for Streaming Recommendation.

Resources

• 🔗 arXiv Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02738
• 🤗 Hugging Face Paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.02738
• 🤗 Hugging Face Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/PIIR/KGD-dataset

Overview

KGD assigns pretrained behavioral knowledge and task-specific geometry to separate parameter sets: a refreshable encoder, pretrained with Behavioral Multi-Token Prediction (BMTP), owns behavioral knowledge, while a task learner reads its contextualized states through read-only cross-attention and writes task-specific geometry via the Anchored Calibration Residual (ACR).

Requirements

We recommend python=3.10+ with the following dependencies:

torch==2.4.1
numpy
tqdm
pandas
pyarrow

Dataset Processing

We use eight Amazon categories: Arts_Crafts_and_Sewing, Beauty_and_Personal_Care, CDs_and_Vinyl, Cell_Phones_and_Accessories, Office_Products, Software, Toys_and_Games, and Video_Games.

We recommend running the code with the preprocessed datasets we provide on Hugging Face, which include:

• ready-to-train datasets;
• the collaborative / semantic embeddings required by BMTP pretraining;
• the Manifold-Constrained swing graph required by ManCAR.

After downloading, place the files under ManCAR_KGD/ as follows (using Software as an example):

ManCAR_KGD/
├── processed_llo_graph/
│   └── Software/                 # ready-to-train dataset
│       ├── Software.train.csv
│       ├── Software.valid.csv
│       ├── Software.test.csv
│       ├── Software.item.csv
│       └── graph/
│           └── swing.parquet     # Manifold-Constrained swing graph (ManCAR)
├── graph_emb/
│   └── Software/
│       └── graph_emb.csv         # collaborative embedding (BMTP)
└── text_emb/
    └── Software/
        └── text_emb.csv          # semantic embedding (BMTP)

We also provide the scripts to build the datasets from raw data. Place the raw leave-last-out splits under ManCAR_KGD/raw_llo/, then run the following from ManCAR_KGD/datasets:

python amazon_llo.py --dataset_name Software
python item_csv_llo.py --dataset_name Software

Training

Training has two stages. Run the following from ManCAR_KGD:

cd ManCAR_KGD

# Stage 1: pretrain the refreshable KGD encoder
DATASET=Software bash run_pretrain.sh

# Stage 2: task training (set PRETRAIN_INIT_PATH to the Stage 1 encoder weights)
DATASET=Software PRETRAIN_INIT_PATH=save_model/Software/pretrain/xxx.pt bash run_mancar_kgd.sh

Acknowledgements

Our code is built upon the official ManCAR and ReaRec repositories, and we sincerely thank their authors.

Citation

@misc{KGD,
      title={Knowledge-Geometry Decoupling: Refreshable Pretrained Transfer for Streaming Recommendation}, 
      author={Zixuan Wang and Yuhong Chen and Yuxuan Zhu and Guidong Lei and Zhiluohan Guo and Yu Zhao and Kun Wang and Bangyang Hong and Kangle Wu and Yabo Ni and Anxiang Zeng and Cong Fu and Hui Li},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2608.02738},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02738}, 
}