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Contrastive Flow Matching for Collaborative Filtering

sigir26-210 · Full research paper · Wangyu Jin, Jiansheng Qian, Wenwen Xia, Hongliang He, Guanfeng Liu, Pengpeng Zhao
Diffusion and Flow Recommenders · 50% Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervise · 50%
Abstract

Flow Matching (FM) has recently been introduced into generative collaborative filtering due to its potential to capture user preferences. However, existing FM-based methods are often trained with only the standard regression objective in flow matching and lack explicit inter-user supervision. This can drive the model toward an averaged preference pattern and generate indistinguishable predictions across users. A natural remedy is to introduce contrastive learning for inter-user separation, yet naive designs face two challenges: (1) In FM-based collaborative filtering, the output is a user's predicted interaction scores over items. Applying contrastive learning directly on this output forces different users to be separated even when they share the same preferences, leading to false repulsion. (2) Flow matching is highly sensitive to its input, so input-level perturbations for view construction can change the generated outcome, making positive pairs semantically mismatched. To address these issues, we propose CoFlowCF, a contrastive flow matching framework for collaborative filtering. Specifically, CoFlowCF introduces hidden contrastive learning by applying inter-user constraints before the flow model's final outputs. We decompose the flow model into a flow encoder and a prediction head, and apply contrastive regularization to the encoder output representations to avoid false repulsion in the prediction space. To build semantically consistent views, we keep the input unchanged and use independent dropout inside the encoder instead of input-level perturbations. Extensive experiments and ablation studies on multiple real-world datasets demonstrate that CoFlowCF consistently improves recommendation performance and robustness. The code is available at https://github.com/DevByQian/CoFlowCF.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Jiuqiang Li 0002
60
79 Disentangled Contrastive Bundle Recommendation with Conditional Diffusion (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
53 Graph Diffusive Self-Supervised Learning for Social Recommendation (2024) Social and Group Recommendation
41 Multi-view Semantic Contrastive Alignment for Multimodal Recommendation (2026) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
2 Lantao Hu
54
74 MODEM: Decoupling User Behavior for Shared-Account Video Recommendations on Large Screen Devices (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
73 Soft Contrastive Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
70 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
3 Mingdai Yang
45
70 Collaborative Alignment for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
67 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning
53 Group Identification via Transitional Hypergraph Convolution with Cross-view Self-supervised Learning (2023) Social and Group Recommendation

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Leyu Lin 48
Area-chair candidates (3)
Leyu Lin assigned 4815 papers
Weiming Liu 0005 COI: co-author 458 papers
Kun Gai 445 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

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1 Jiuqiang Li 0002 assigned 60 3
79 Disentangled Contrastive Bundle Recommendation with Conditional Diffusion (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
53 Graph Diffusive Self-Supervised Learning for Social Recommendation (2024) Social and Group Recommendation
2 Zhengyi Yang 0007 55 3
65 Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion (2023) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
65 On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based Recommenders (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
3 Ke Wang 0038 55 3
65 Contrastive Self-supervised Learning in Recommender Systems: A Survey (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
63 LLM-Grounded Diffusion for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
4 Lianghao Xia 54 3
69 Automated Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
69 LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
5 Lantao Hu assigned 54 3
74 MODEM: Decoupling User Behavior for Shared-Account Video Recommendations on Large Screen Devices (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
73 Soft Contrastive Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
6 Mengyuan Jing 51 3
76 Interest-Aware Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation With Diffusion-Based Augmentation (2026) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
67 Generating Difficulty-aware Negative Samples via Conditional Diffusion for Multi-modal Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
7 Yi Zhang 0103 50 3
69 Unveiling Contrastive Learning's Capability of Neighborhood Aggregation for Collaborative Filtering (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
69 MixRec: Individual and Collective Mixing Empowers Data Augmentation for Recommender Systems (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
8 Jiancan Wu 49 3
69 Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion (2023) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
69 Self-supervised Graph Learning for Recommendation (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
9 Yongjing Hao COI: co-author 48 3
66 Meta-Optimized Joint Generative and Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
58 LMACL: Improving Graph Collaborative Filtering with Learnable Model Augmentation Contrastive Learning (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
10 Bowen Zheng 0005 48 3
69 Enhancing Graph Contrastive Learning with Reliable and Informative Augmentation for Recommendation (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
49 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
12 Min Hou 0004 48 3
72 Pre-training General User Representation with Multi-type APP Behaviors (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
70 Unified Representation Learning for Discrete Attribute Enhanced Completely Cold-Start Recommendation (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
13 Xiaolong Liu 0012 47 3
71 Collaborative Alignment for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
67 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning
14 Shuchang Liu 0001 47 3
73 Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
66 Modeling User Retention through Generative Flow Networks (2024) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
15 Chen Wang 0052 47 3
67 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning
48 Confidence-Aware Fine-Tuning of Sequential Recommendation Systems Via Conformal Prediction (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
16 Chunyang Wang 0001 46 3
57 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
52 Guiding Graph Learning with Denoised Modality for Multi-modal Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
17 Lichan Hong 46 3
65 Self-supervised Learning for Large-scale Item Recommendations (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
50 Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
18 Wei Wei 0027 46 3
65 Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
62 DiffMM: Multi-Modal Diffusion Model for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
19 Yong He 0009 46 3
65 Global-Aware Model-Free Self-distillation for Recommendation System (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
45 Breaking the Length Barrier: LLM-Enhanced CTR Prediction in Long Textual User Behaviors (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
20 Ed H. Chi 46 3
65 Self-supervised Learning for Large-scale Item Recommendations (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
50 Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
21 Jiangxia Cao 46 3
70 From Agnostic to Specific: Latent Preference Diffusion for Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommendation (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
49 Contrastive Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2022) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
22 Riwei Lai 46 3
72 Disentangled Negative Sampling for Collaborative Filtering (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
49 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
23 Xubin Ren 46 3
81 Multi-auxiliary Augmented Collaborative Variational Auto-encoder for Tag Recommendation (2023) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
54 EasyRec: Simple yet Effective Language Models for Recommendation (2025) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment
24 Hao Liu 0078 45 3
47 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
47 MCRPL: A Pretrain, Prompt, and Fine-tune Paradigm for Non-overlapping Many-to-one Cross-domain Recommendation (2024) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR
25 Qiang Luo 0004 45 3
61 DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
47 OneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
26 Xuanhua Yang 45 3
73 Towards Personalized Bundle Creative Generation with Contrastive Non-Autoregressive Decoding (2022) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
45 Hierarchical User Long-term Behavior Modeling for Click-Through Rate Prediction (2025) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
27 Jianling Wang 45 3
48 Learning to Augment for Casual User Recommendation (2022) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
47 Session-based Recommendation with Hypergraph Attention Networks (2021) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
28 Mingdai Yang assigned 45 3
70 Collaborative Alignment for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
67 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning
30 Seongmin Park 0002 45 3
58 uCTRL: Unbiased Contrastive Representation Learning via Alignment and Uniformity for Collaborative Filtering (2023) Popularity Bias and Debiasing in Recommendation
46 MergeRec: Model Merging for Data-Isolated Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2026) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
31 Yinwei Wei 45 3
57 MultiCBR: Multi-view Contrastive Learning for Bundle Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
55 MMGCN: Multi-modal Graph Convolution Network for Personalized Recommendation of Micro-video (2019) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
32 Jieming Zhu 45 3
50 UNGER: Generative Recommendation with A Unified Code via Semantic and Collaborative Integration (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
50 CoST: Contrastive Quantization based Semantic Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs