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Large Language Models (LLMs) have limited performance when solving arithmetic reasoning tasks and often provide incorrect answers. Unlike natural language understanding, math problems typically have a single correct answer, making the task…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various fields, prompting several studies to explore their potential in recommendation systems. However, these attempts have so far resulted in only modest improvements over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Junyi Chen , Lu Chi , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

With the boom of e-commerce and web applications, recommender systems have become an important part of our daily lives, providing personalized recommendations based on the user's preferences. Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have made…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xiaonan Xu , Yichao Wu , Penghao Liang , Yuhang He , Han Wang

How can we extend a pre-trained model to many language understanding tasks, without labeled or additional unlabeled data? Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been effective for a wide range of NLP tasks. However, existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xuandong Zhao , Siqi Ouyang , Zhiguo Yu , Ming Wu , Lei Li

In this paper, we present empirical studies on conversational recommendation tasks using representative large language models in a zero-shot setting with three primary contributions. (1) Data: To gain insights into model behavior in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhankui He , Zhouhang Xie , Rahul Jha , Harald Steck , Dawen Liang , Yesu Feng , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Nathan Kallus , Julian McAuley

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in generalizing to new tasks in a zero-shot or few-shot manner. However, the extent to which LLMs can comprehend user preferences based on their previous behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wang-Cheng Kang , Jianmo Ni , Nikhil Mehta , Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy , Lichan Hong , Ed Chi , Derek Zhiyuan Cheng

We introduce a large language model (LLM) based approach to answer complex questions requiring multi-hop numerical reasoning over financial reports. While LLMs have exhibited remarkable performance on various natural language and reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Karmvir Singh Phogat , Chetan Harsha , Sridhar Dasaratha , Shashishekar Ramakrishna , Sai Akhil Puranam

This study quantifies how prompting strategies interact with large language models (LLMs) to automate the screening stage of systematic literature reviews (SLRs). We evaluate six LLMs (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, DeepSeek-Chat-V3,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Binglan Han , Anuradha Mathrani , Teo Susnjak

The lack of training data gives rise to the system cold-start problem in recommendation systems, making them struggle to provide effective recommendations. To address this problem, Large Language Models (LLMs) can model recommendation tasks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Wenlin Zhang , Chuhan Wu , Xiangyang Li , Yuhao Wang , Kuicai Dong , Yichao Wang , Xinyi Dai , Xiangyu Zhao , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Recently, several specialized instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) for Named Entity Recognition (NER) have emerged. Compared to traditional NER approaches, these models have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Andrew Zamai , Andrea Zugarini , Leonardo Rigutini , Marco Ernandes , Marco Maggini

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for Recommendation System(RS), aiming to provide personalized recommendation services for users in many aspects such as food delivery, e-commerce and so on. However, traditional RS relies on…

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This paper explores the effectiveness of using large language models (LLMs) for personalized movie recommendations from users' perspectives in an online field experiment. Our study involves a combination of between-subject prompt and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Ruixuan Sun , Xinyi Li , Avinash Akella , Joseph A. Konstan

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks. However, their ability to generate human-like text has raised concerns about potential misuse. This underscores the need for reliable and effective…

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Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential for next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation. However, existing methods only perform direct zero-shot prompting, leading to ineffective extraction of user preferences,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ziqing Wu , Zhu Sun , Dongxia Wang , Lu Zhang , Jie Zhang , Yew Soon Ong

Utilizing large language models (LLMs) for zero-shot document ranking is done in one of two ways: (1) prompt-based re-ranking methods, which require no further training but are only feasible for re-ranking a handful of candidate documents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Shengyao Zhuang , Xueguang Ma , Bevan Koopman , Jimmy Lin , Guido Zuccon

There is a burgeoning discussion around the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in acting as fundamental components that can be seamlessly incorporated into Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) to interpret complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Huanqi Yang , Sijie Ji , Rucheng Wu , Weitao Xu

While previous chapters focused on recommendation systems (RSs) based on standardized, non-verbal user feedback such as purchases, views, and clicks -- the advent of LLMs has unlocked the use of natural language (NL) interactions for…

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in the field of natural language processing (NLP), demonstrating remarkable abilities in producing text that resembles human language for various tasks. This opens up new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jianghao Lin , Xinyi Dai , Rong Shan , Bo Chen , Ruiming Tang , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

We propose to utilize an instruction-tuned large language model (LLM) for guiding the text generation process in automatic speech recognition (ASR). Modern large language models (LLMs) are adept at performing various text generation tasks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Yosuke Higuchi , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi

We propose a novel zero-shot document ranking approach based on Large Language Models (LLMs): the Setwise prompting approach. Our approach complements existing prompting approaches for LLM-based zero-shot ranking: Pointwise, Pairwise, and…

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