Denoising Neural Reranker for Recommender Systems

An Zhang; Hailan Yang; Han Li; Kun Gai; Lantao Hu; Shuchang Liu; Wenyu Mao; Xiang Li; Xiang Wang; Xiaobei Wang

arxiv: 2509.18736 · v5 · pith:HRLJC4LYnew · submitted 2025-09-23 · 💻 cs.IR

Denoising Neural Reranker for Recommender Systems

Wenyu Mao , Shuchang Liu , Hailan Yang , Xiaobei Wang , Xiaoyu Yang , Xu Gao , Xiang Li , Lantao Hu

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Han Li Kun Gai An Zhang Xiang Wang

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keywords recommender systemsrerankingdenoisingadversarial trainingretriever scorestwo-stage frameworknoise reduction

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The pith

Retriever scores can be denoised by an adversarial reranker to align with user feedback in multi-stage recommenders.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that reranking in two-stage recommender systems is fundamentally a noise reduction task on the scores coming from the initial retriever. It provides empirical demonstrations and theoretical analysis of why naive ways of using those scores fall short. The authors introduce DNR, an adversarial framework that pairs a denoising reranker with a noise generation module and augments the standard loss with three new objectives for denoising, adversarial exploration, and distribution alignment. This approach aims to produce refined rankings that match actual user preferences more closely while leaving the fast retriever unchanged.

Core claim

The reranking task under the two-stage framework is naturally a noise reduction problem on the retriever scores. Following this notion, an adversarial framework DNR is derived that associates the denoising reranker with a carefully designed noise generation module. The resulting DNR solution extends the conventional score error minimization loss with a denoising objective that aims to denoise the noisy retriever scores to align with the user feedback, an adversarial retriever score generation objective that improves the exploration in the retriever score space, and a distribution regularization term that aims to align the distribution of generated noisy retriever scores with the real ones.

What carries the argument

DNR adversarial framework that pairs a denoising reranker with a noise generation module to model and remove noise from retriever scores.

If this is right

Denoised retriever scores align more closely with observed user feedback.
Adversarial generation improves coverage of the retriever score space during training.
Distribution regularization keeps generated noise statistically similar to real retriever outputs.
Overall reranking quality improves on both public benchmarks and live industrial traffic.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same denoising pattern could apply to two-stage pipelines outside recommenders, such as web search or advertising ranking.
Treating initial scores as noisy signals might reduce the frequency of full retriever retraining cycles.
The noise model could be tested on datasets that vary the strength of correlation between retriever scores and user clicks.

Load-bearing premise

Retriever scores are informative but noisy signals whose distribution can be adversarially modeled and denoised to align with user feedback without introducing new biases or requiring changes to the upstream retriever.

What would settle it

Experiments on the three public datasets or the industrial system in which DNR produces no measurable improvement over standard rerankers or in which the denoised scores correlate no better with user feedback than the original retriever scores.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2509.18736 by An Zhang, Hailan Yang, Han Li, Kun Gai, Lantao Hu, Shuchang Liu, Wenyu Mao, Xiang Li, Xiang Wang, Xiaobei Wang, Xiaoyu Yang, Xu Gao.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overall framework of multi-stage recommender system (on the left) and the noise reduction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Sensitivity analysis of hyperparameters ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Different ways to leverage retriever scores. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: The visualization of generaed noise from different variants. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Sensitivity of DNR to the hyperparameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Sensitivity of DNR to the hyperparameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Sensitivity of DNR to the hyperparameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_8.png] view at source ↗

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For multi-stage recommenders in industry, a user request would first trigger a simple and efficient retriever module that selects and ranks a list of relevant items, then the recommender calls a slower but more sophisticated reranking model that refines the item list exposure to the user. To consistently optimize the two-stage retrieval reranking framework, most efforts have focused on learning reranker-aware retrievers. In contrast, there has been limited work on how to achieve a retriever-aware reranker. In this work, we provide evidence that the retriever scores from the previous stage are informative signals that have been underexplored. Specifically, we first empirically show that the reranking task under the two-stage framework is naturally a noise reduction problem on the retriever scores, and theoretically show the limitations of naive utilization techniques of the retriever scores. Following this notion, we derive an adversarial framework DNR that associates the denoising reranker with a carefully designed noise generation module. The resulting DNR solution extends the conventional score error minimization loss with three augmented objectives, including: 1) a denoising objective that aims to denoise the noisy retriever scores to align with the user feedback; 2) an adversarial retriever score generation objective that improves the exploration in the retriever score space; and 3) a distribution regularization term that aims to align the distribution of generated noisy retriever scores with the real ones. We conduct extensive experiments on three public datasets and an industrial recommender system, together with analytical support, to validate the effectiveness of the proposed DNR.

Editorial analysis

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The paper frames reranking as denoising retriever scores and adds an adversarial module with three extra objectives, delivering some empirical lifts on standard and industrial data but leaving the theoretical noise-separation claim lightly supported.

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The main thing here is that they treat the reranker as a denoiser for retriever scores and wrap it in an adversarial setup with a denoising loss, an adversarial generation term, and a distribution regularizer. That combination is the concrete addition over plain score minimization or simple concatenation of retriever scores. They motivate it with an empirical observation that retriever scores carry signal but also noise relative to final user feedback, then run experiments on three public datasets plus one production recommender. The industrial result is the part that matters most for this line of work, since two-stage pipelines are already deployed at scale. The gains look real on the metrics they report, and the setup is simple enough to implement on top of existing rerankers without touching the upstream retriever. The soft spot is the theoretical argument. The abstract says they show limitations of naive utilization techniques, but the details of that argument are not visible here and the stress-test concern about conditioning on the top-k selection is not obviously resolved. If the generated noise is trained only on the already-filtered scores, the adversarial piece may just be learning to invert the retriever's own biases rather than recovering relevance outside the candidate pool. That distinction matters for whether the method generalizes or merely fits the observed distribution better. This paper is for people who maintain multi-stage recommenders and want a targeted way to improve the reranking stage. It is not a foundational rethinking of retrieval, but it is a practical tweak with enough empirical backing to be worth checking. I would send it to peer review so the derivations and any out-of-pool tests can be examined directly.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes a Denoising Neural Reranker (DNR) for two-stage recommender systems. It empirically and theoretically frames the reranking task as a noise reduction problem on retriever scores, highlights limitations of naive score utilization, and introduces an adversarial framework with a noise generation module. The framework augments the standard loss with a denoising objective to align denoised scores with user feedback, an adversarial generation objective for exploration in score space, and a distribution regularizer to match real retriever score distributions. Experiments on public and industrial datasets support the approach.

Significance. If the central claims hold, this could advance retriever-aware reranking in industrial systems by better leveraging existing retriever scores through denoising rather than retraining the retriever. The adversarial setup with multiple objectives offers a novel way to handle noisy signals in ranking. The empirical validation on both public benchmarks and an industrial system is a positive feature, but significance is limited by the absence of detailed derivations for the theoretical limitations and interaction among the three augmented objectives.

major comments (3)

Abstract: the claim that reranking is 'naturally a noise reduction problem on the retriever scores' and the theoretical demonstration of limitations of naive utilization techniques are asserted without derivation details or equations, which is load-bearing for motivating the DNR framework and its three augmented objectives.
Abstract: the three augmented objectives (denoising loss, adversarial retriever score generation, distribution regularizer) are introduced at a high level with no explicit equations showing how they are combined with the conventional score error minimization loss or whether any are tautological by construction; this prevents verification that the framework improves alignment to user feedback rather than merely fitting observed retriever scores.
Abstract: the noise model assumes retriever scores are informative but noisy signals whose distribution can be adversarially modeled and denoised; however, because scores are observed only on the retriever's already-selected top-k set, the distribution is conditioned on the retriever's ranking decisions, and nothing in the described construction enforces that generated noise respects the same conditioning or that denoising recovers relevance outside the candidate pool.

minor comments (2)

Experiments: no error-bar information, variance across runs, or statistical significance tests are mentioned for the reported gains on the three public datasets and industrial system.
Abstract: the description of how the denoising, adversarial, and regularization objectives interact during training (or whether post-hoc tuning was applied) is absent and should be clarified for reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, with clear indications of planned revisions where appropriate.

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Referee: Abstract: the claim that reranking is 'naturally a noise reduction problem on the retriever scores' and the theoretical demonstration of limitations of naive utilization techniques are asserted without derivation details or equations, which is load-bearing for motivating the DNR framework and its three augmented objectives.

Authors: We agree that the abstract presents these foundational claims concisely without full derivations, which limits immediate verifiability. Section 3.1 of the manuscript provides the empirical evidence via score distribution analysis and noise characterization on public datasets, while Section 3.2 derives the limitations of naive score utilization through a formal decomposition showing bias and variance issues. We will revise the abstract to include a brief reference to the key theoretical insight (e.g., the expected error bound under naive fusion) and add a pointer to the relevant sections and equations. revision: yes
Referee: Abstract: the three augmented objectives (denoising loss, adversarial retriever score generation, distribution regularizer) are introduced at a high level with no explicit equations showing how they are combined with the conventional score error minimization loss or whether any are tautological by construction; this prevents verification that the framework improves alignment to user feedback rather than merely fitting observed retriever scores.

Authors: The abstract summarizes the objectives at a high level due to length constraints. The full manuscript defines the combined objective explicitly in Equation (7) of Section 4.3 as L = L_SEM + λ1 L_denoise + λ2 L_adv + λ3 L_reg, where L_SEM is the standard score error minimization loss. Ablation experiments in Section 6.3 confirm that the augmented terms improve alignment with user feedback beyond fitting retriever scores alone, as measured by ranking metrics on held-out interactions. We will add a compact statement of the combined loss to the abstract to address this directly. revision: yes
Referee: Abstract: the noise model assumes retriever scores are informative but noisy signals whose distribution can be adversarially modeled and denoised; however, because scores are observed only on the retriever's already-selected top-k set, the distribution is conditioned on the retriever's ranking decisions, and nothing in the described construction enforces that generated noise respects the same conditioning or that denoising recovers relevance outside the candidate pool.

Authors: This is a substantive point on the problem scope. Our framework is designed for the reranking stage and operates strictly within the retriever's top-k candidate pool; the noise generation module is trained adversarially to match the empirical distribution of observed retriever scores conditioned on that pool. The denoising objective refines scores to better match user feedback within the same pool. We do not claim recovery of relevance outside the candidate set, as that falls to the upstream retriever. We will add explicit discussion of this conditioning and scope limitation in the revised introduction and method sections, along with a note on how the adversarial module respects the observed top-k distribution. revision: partial

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Derivation is self-contained; no reductions to inputs by construction

full rationale

The paper motivates the DNR framework via an empirical demonstration that reranking constitutes a noise-reduction task on retriever scores, followed by a theoretical analysis of limitations in naive score-utilization methods. It then explicitly augments a conventional score-error-minimization loss with three new objectives (denoising alignment to user feedback, adversarial retriever-score generation for exploration, and distribution regularization). These objectives are introduced as modeling extensions rather than quantities that reduce to the original retriever scores or fitted parameters by definition. No self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes from prior author work are invoked to force the framework, and the central claim remains an independent proposal grounded in the observed phenomenon rather than a tautological restatement of its inputs.

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Abstract-only review yields no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities that can be extracted; the noise-generation module is introduced but its parameterization and independence from data are not specified.

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14 Denoising Neural Reranker for Recommender Systems A NOTATIONS symbol description u user request information including profile features and interaction history x random variables of retriever scores on the candidate item set z random variables of user feedback on the candidate item set xu,z u observed retriever scores and user feedback in data x′ u the ...

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D.3 BASELINES We detail the compared baselines of our main experiments in the following, including traditional recommenders, list-refinement methods, generator-evaluator methods, and diffusion-based methods. Traditional Recommenders:predict the scores of candidate items and rank them accordingly. • SASRec Kang & McAuley (2018) proposes a self-attention ba...

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w/ score

We can see that, in our scenario, watch-time and share-rate are slightly negatively impacted, while like-rate and comment-rate are slightly positively impacted, indicating a potential trade-off between metrics. In general, the impact on all other metrics is not statistically significant, indicating the effectiveness of our method. metric performance boost...

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