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Exploration, the act of broadening user experiences beyond their established preferences, is challenging in large-scale recommendation systems due to feedback loops and limited signals on user exploration patterns. Large Language Models…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. Their potential for deeper user understanding and improved personalized user experience on recommendation platforms is,…

Recently, much effort has been devoted to modeling users' multi-interests based on their behaviors or auxiliary signals. However, existing methods often rely on heuristic assumptions, e.g., co-occurring items indicate the same interest of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziyan Wang , Yingpeng Du , Zhu Sun , Jieyi Bi , Haoyan Chua , Tianjun Wei , Jie Zhang

Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) possess the world knowledge and multimodal understanding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haoting Wang , Jianling Wang , Hao Li , Fangjun Yi , Mengyu Fu , Youwei Zhang , Yifan Liu , Liang Liu , Minmin Chen , Ed H. Chi , Lichan Hong , Haokai Lu

The integration of Large Language Models into recommendation frameworks presents key advantages for personalization and adaptability of experiences to the users. Classic methods of recommendations, such as collaborative filtering and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Peiyang Yu , Zeqiu Xu , Jiani Wang , Xiaochuan Xu

With the advent of the information explosion era, the importance of recommendation systems in various applications is increasingly significant. Traditional collaborative filtering algorithms are widely used due to their effectiveness in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xueting Lin , Zhan Cheng , Longfei Yun , Qingyi Lu , Yuanshuai Luo

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 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

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to harness user-item interaction histories for item generation has emerged as a promising paradigm in generative recommendation. However, the limited context window of LLMs often restricts them to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Chengbing Wang , Yang Zhang , Fengbin Zhu , Jizhi Zhang , Tianhao Shi , Fuli Feng

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

A critical factor in the success of decision support systems is the accurate modeling of user preferences. Psychology research has demonstrated that users often develop their preferences during the elicitation process, highlighting the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Connor Lawless , Jakob Schoeffer , Lindy Le , Kael Rowan , Shilad Sen , Cristina St. Hill , Jina Suh , Bahareh Sarrafzadeh

Recommender systems have traditionally followed modular architectures comprising candidate generation, multi-stage ranking, and re-ranking, each trained separately with supervised objectives and hand-engineered features. While effective in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Rahul Raja , Anshaj Vats , Arpita Vats , Anirban Majumder

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

Effectively modeling the dynamic nature of user preferences is crucial for enhancing recommendation accuracy and fostering transparency in recommender systems. Traditional user profiling often overlooks the distinction between transitory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

Large language models (LLMs) have recently received significant attention for their exceptional capabilities. Despite extensive efforts in developing general-purpose LLMs that can be utilized in various natural language processing (NLP)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Fan Yang , Zheng Chen , Ziyan Jiang , Eunah Cho , Xiaojiang Huang , Yanbin Lu

Accurately modeling user preferences is vital not only for improving recommendation performance but also for enhancing transparency in recommender systems. Conventional user profiling methods, such as averaging item embeddings, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, generalization, and simulating human-like behavior across a wide range of tasks. These strengths present new opportunities to enhance traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Nachiket Subbaraman , Jaskinder Sarai , Aniruddh Nath , Lichan Hong , Lukasz Heldt , Li Wei , Zhe Zhao

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

Sequential recommendation (SR) leverages users' dynamic preferences, with recent advances incorporating multi-interest learning to model diverse user interests. However, most multi-interest SR models rely on noisy, sparse implicit feedback,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shutong Qiao , Chen Gao , Wei Yuan , Yong Li , Hongzhi Yin

Multimodal recommender systems (MRS) integrate heterogeneous user and item data, such as text, images, and structured information, to enhance recommendation performance. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) introduces new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alejo Lopez-Avila , Jinhua Du
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