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In large language models (LLM)-based recommendation systems (LLM-RSs), accurately predicting user preferences by leveraging the general knowledge of LLMs is possible without requiring extensive training data. By converting recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Genki Kusano , Kosuke Akimoto , Kunihiro Takeoka

Traditional recommender systems (RS) have been primarily optimized for accuracy and short-term engagement, often overlooking transparency and trustworthiness. Recently, platforms such as Amazon and Instagram have begun providing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Chung Park , Taesan Kim , Hyeongjun Yun , Dongjoon Hong , Junui Hong , Kijung Park , MinCheol Cho , Mira Myong , Jihoon Oh , Min sung Choi

When users are dissatisfied with recommendations from a recommender system, they often lack fine-grained controls for changing them. Large language models (LLMs) offer a solution by allowing users to guide their recommendations through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Micah Carroll , Adeline Foote , Kevin Feng , Marcus Williams , Anca Dragan , W. Bradley Knox , Smitha Milli

Recommender systems play a vital role in alleviating information overload and enriching users' online experience. In the era of large language models (LLMs), LLM-based recommender systems have emerged as a prevalent paradigm for advancing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zihuai Zhao , Yujuan Ding , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Large language models (LLM) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for a variety of natural language processing tasks, bringing a new surge of combining LLM with recommendation systems, termed as LLM-based RS. Current approaches generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xiaohan Yu , Li Zhang , Xin Zhao , Yue Wang , Zhongrui Ma

The sequential recommendation problem has attracted considerable research attention in the past few years, leading to the rise of numerous recommendation models. In this work, we explore how Large Language Models (LLMs), which are nowadays…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Artun Boz , Wouter Zorgdrager , Zoe Kotti , Jesse Harte , Panos Louridas , Dietmar Jannach , Vassilios Karakoidas , Marios Fragkoulis

The paper underscores the significance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in reshaping recommender systems, attributing their value to unique reasoning abilities absent in traditional recommenders. Unlike conventional systems lacking direct…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Arpita Vats , Vinija Jain , Rahul Raja , Aman Chadha

Recent attempts to integrate large language models (LLMs) into recommender systems have gained momentum, but most remain limited to simple text generation or static prompt-based inference, failing to capture the complexity of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jiin Park , Misuk Kim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful backbone for recommender systems. Existing LLM-based recommender systems take two different approaches for representing items in natural language, i.e., Attribute-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kibum Kim , Sein Kim , Hongseok Kang , Jiwan Kim , Heewoong Noh , Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Jinoh Oh , Julian McAuley , Chanyoung Park

This paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation, which predicts users' future interactions based on their past behavior. We introduce a new concept, "Integrating Recommendation Systems as a New…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Kai Zheng , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Peng Yu , Qingwei Guo

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled more semantic-aware recommendations through natural language generation. Existing LLM for recommendation (LLM4Rec) methods mostly operate in a System 1-like manner, relying on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Qihang Yu , Kairui Fu , Zheqi Lv , Shengyu Zhang , Xinhui Wu , Chen Lin , Feng Wei , Bo Zheng , Fei Wu

Due to the lack of explicit reasoning modeling, existing LLM-powered recommendations fail to leverage LLMs' reasoning capabilities effectively. In this paper, we propose a pipeline called CoT-Rec, which integrates two key Chain-of-Thought…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jiahao Liu , Xueshuo Yan , Dongsheng Li , Guangping Zhang , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Tun Lu , Li Shang , Ning Gu

Generative recommendation systems, driven by large language models (LLMs), present an innovative approach to predicting user preferences by modeling items as token sequences and generating recommendations in a generative manner. A critical…

In recent years, efforts have been made to use text information for better user profiling and item characterization in recommendations. However, text information can sometimes be of low quality, hindering its effectiveness for real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yingpeng Du , Ziyan Wang , Zhu Sun , Haoyan Chua , Hongzhi Liu , Zhonghai Wu , Yining Ma , Jie Zhang , Youchen Sun

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in sequential recommendation tasks, leveraging their superior language understanding capabilities. However, existing LLM-based recommendation approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Minglai Shao , Hua Huang , Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu

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

In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the applications of large pre-trained language models (PLMs) to recommender systems, with many studies showing strong performance of PLMs on common benchmark datasets. PLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kevin Foley , Shaghayegh Agah , Kavya Priyanka Kakinada

Recently, the fast development of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has significantly advanced NLP tasks by enhancing the capabilities of conversational models. However, the application of LLMs in the recommendation domain has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Junling Liu , Chao Liu , Peilin Zhou , Qichen Ye , Dading Chong , Kang Zhou , Yueqi Xie , Yuwei Cao , Shoujin Wang , Chenyu You , Philip S. Yu

Recommender systems are essential components of many online platforms, yet traditional approaches still struggle with understanding complex user preferences and providing explainable recommendations. The emergence of Large Language Model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu , Hua Huang , Qing Yang , Minglai Shao

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been used as backbones for recommender systems. However, their performance often lags behind conventional methods in standard tasks like retrieval. We attribute this to a mismatch between LLMs'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuwei Cao , Nikhil Mehta , Xinyang Yi , Raghunandan Keshavan , Lukasz Heldt , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi , Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy