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This paper introduces Knowledge-Geometry Decoupling (KGD), a novel framework designed to enhance the transfer of knowledge in streaming recommendation systems by addressing behavioral distribution drift. By utilizing Behavioral Multi-Token Prediction (BMTP), KGD selectively retains relevant future items for supervision, leading to cleaner behavioral knowledge that is more transferable. The method's effectiveness is validated through significant performance improvements on multiple benchmarks and a successful deployment in Shopee, resulting in increased gross merchandise value (GMV) and advertising revenue.
KGD achieves a 4-12% performance boost over traditional pretrain-transfer methods while sustaining its advantage in long-term production environments.
Industrial recommenders increasingly adopt the pretrain-then-transfer paradigm, yet behavioral distribution drift raises two questions: what to learn from behavior sequences, and how to transfer the learned knowledge while the pretrained model is continually refreshed. To resolve them, we propose Knowledge-Geometry Decoupling (KGD). For what to learn, conventional next-token prediction treats adjacency as dependency and may encode spurious transitions across unrelated sessions. We introduce Behavioral Multi-Token Prediction (BMTP) to retain only collaboratively or semantically related future items as supervision, yielding cleaner and more transferable behavioral knowledge. For how to transfer, pretrained knowledge and task-specific geometry impose conflicting optimization demands on shared parameters. To handle it, KGD assigns them to separate parameter sets: a refreshable encoder owns behavioral knowledge, while a task learner reads contextualized encoder states through read-only cross-attention and writes task-specific geometry through Anchored Calibration Residual (ACR) orthogonal to the pretrained embedding. The decoupled ownership enables continual knowledge refresh without task-gradient interference or invalidating downstream adaptation. KGD improves over strong pretrain-transfer baselines by 4-12% on eight public benchmarks and sustains its advantage over a 90-day production stream where baselines show no gains. KGD has been fully deployed in Shopee. In a live A/B test on Shopee Homepage Search, it increases GMV per user by 1.75% and advertising revenue by 1.53%, demonstrating its high practical value. We provide the core implementation of KGD at https://github.com/FuCongResearchSquad/KGD4REC.
