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Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have been changing the paradigm of Recommender Systems (RS). However, when items in the recommendation scenarios contain rich textual information, such as product descriptions in online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhi Zheng , Wenshuo Chao , Zhaopeng Qiu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong

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

We present LLM-KT, a flexible framework designed to enhance collaborative filtering (CF) models by seamlessly integrating LLM (Large Language Model)-generated features. Unlike existing methods that rely on passing LLM-generated features as…

In various work contexts, such as meeting scheduling, collaborating, and project planning, collective decision-making is essential but often challenging due to diverse individual preferences, varying work focuses, and power dynamics among…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Marios Papachristou , Longqi Yang , Chin-Chia Hsu

This study deeply explores the application of large language model (LLM) in personalized recommendation system of e-commerce. Aiming at the limitations of traditional recommendation algorithms in processing large-scale and multi-dimensional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Wei Xu , Jue Xiao , Jianlong Chen

Text-based collaborative filtering (TCF) has emerged as the prominent technique for text and news recommendation, employing language models (LMs) as text encoders to represent items. However, the current landscape of TCF models mainly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ruyu Li , Wenhao Deng , Yu Cheng , Zheng Yuan , Jiaqi Zhang , Fajie Yuan

The growth of recommender systems (RecSys) is driven by digitization and the need for personalized content in areas such as e-commerce and video streaming. The content in these systems often changes rapidly and therefore they constantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shiyu Wang , Hao Ding , Yupeng Gu , Sergul Aydore , Kousha Kalantari , Branislav Kveton

Sequential recommender systems predict items that may interest users by modeling their preferences based on historical interactions. Traditional sequential recommendation methods rely on capturing implicit collaborative filtering signals…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shenghao Yang , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Mingchen Cai , Min Zhang

With the prosperity of e-commerce and web applications, Recommender Systems (RecSys) have become an important component of our daily life, providing personalized suggestions that cater to user preferences. While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zihuai Zhao , Wenqi Fan , Jiatong Li , Yunqing Liu , Xiaowei Mei , Yiqi Wang , Zhen Wen , Fei Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Jiliang Tang , Qing Li

Recommender models excel at providing domain-specific item recommendations by leveraging extensive user behavior data. Despite their ability to act as lightweight domain experts, they struggle to perform versatile tasks such as providing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Xu Huang , Jianxun Lian , Yuxuan Lei , Jing Yao , Defu Lian , Xing Xie

The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have generated considerable interest in their utilization for sequential recommendation tasks. While collaborative signals from similar users are central to recommendation modeling,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tong Zhang

Conventional recommendation systems (RSs) are typically optimized to enhance performance metrics uniformly across all training samples. This makes it hard for data-driven RSs to cater to a diverse set of users due to the varying properties…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Kirandeep Kaur , Chirag Shah

The evolution of recommender systems has shifted from traditional collaborative filtering to LLM-based agentic systems, which rely on semantic user and item memories to make predictions. However, existing agents maintain these memories in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Weixin Chen , Yuhan Zhao , Jingyuan Huang , Zihe Ye , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Li Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

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

Cold-start problem is one of the long-standing challenges in recommender systems, focusing on accurately modeling new or interaction-limited users or items to provide better recommendations. Due to the diversification of internet platforms…

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS), which model a user's interaction history to predict the next item of interest, are widely used in various applications. However, existing SRS often struggle with low-popularity items, a challenge known…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Wanyu Wang , Yejing Wang , Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao , Feng Tian , Yefeng Zheng

With the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), numerous benchmarks have been proposed to measure and compare the capabilities of different LLMs. However, evaluating LLMs is costly due to the large number of test instances and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Xu-Xiang Zhong , Chao Yi , Han-Jia Ye

Recommender systems (RecSys) are widely used across various modern digital platforms and have garnered significant attention. Traditional recommender systems usually focus only on fixed and simple recommendation scenarios, making it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiani Huang , Shijie Wang , Liang-bo Ning , Wenqi Fan , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Qing Li

Traditional recommender systems primarily leverage identity-based (ID) representations for users and items, while the advent of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has introduced rich semantic modeling of item descriptions. However, PLMs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Chen Wang , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Mingdai Yang , Yueqing Liang , Philip S. Yu

Recommender systems utilizing explicit feedback have witnessed significant advancements and widespread applications over the past years. However, generating recommendations in few-shot scenarios remains a persistent challenge. Recently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zhoumeng Wang