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Enhancing Content-based Recommendation via Large Language Model

Information Retrieval 2024-07-30 v2 Computation and Language

Abstract

In real-world applications, users express different behaviors when they interact with different items, including implicit click/like interactions, and explicit comments/reviews interactions. Nevertheless, almost all recommender works are focused on how to describe user preferences by the implicit click/like interactions, to find the synergy of people. For the content-based explicit comments/reviews interactions, some works attempt to utilize them to mine the semantic knowledge to enhance recommender models. However, they still neglect the following two points: (1) The content semantic is a universal world knowledge; how do we extract the multi-aspect semantic information to empower different domains? (2) The user/item ID feature is a fundamental element for recommender models; how do we align the ID and content semantic feature space? In this paper, we propose a `plugin' semantic knowledge transferring method \textbf{LoID}, which includes two major components: (1) LoRA-based large language model pretraining to extract multi-aspect semantic information; (2) ID-based contrastive objective to align their feature spaces. We conduct extensive experiments with SOTA baselines on real-world datasets, the detailed results demonstrating significant improvements of our method LoID.

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@article{arxiv.2404.00236,
  title  = {Enhancing Content-based Recommendation via Large Language Model},
  author = {Wentao Xu and Qianqian Xie and Shuo Yang and Jiangxia Cao and Shuchao Pang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00236},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted at CIKM 2024

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