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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

Conventional recommendation methods have achieved notable advancements by harnessing collaborative or sequential information from user behavior. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have gained prominence for their capabilities in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sichun Luo , Yuxuan Yao , Bowei He , Wei Shao , Jian Xu , Yinya Huang , Aojun Zhou , Xinyi Zhang , Yuanzhang Xiao , Hanxu Hou , Mingjie Zhan , Linqi Song

The importance of recommender systems is growing rapidly due to the exponential increase in the volume of content generated daily. This surge in content presents unique challenges for designing effective recommender systems. Key among these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jiahao Tian , Jinman Zhao , Zhenkai Wang , Zhicheng Ding

Recommender systems in concert with Large Language Models (LLMs) present promising avenues for generating semantically-informed recommendations. However, LLM-based recommenders exhibit a tendency to overemphasize semantic correlations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Minhao Wang , Yunhang He , Cong Xu , Zhangchi Zhu , Wei Zhang

The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked interest in harnessing their potential within recommender systems. Since LLMs are designed for natural language tasks, existing recommendation approaches have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xinhang Li , Chong Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Yong Zhang , Chunxiao Xing

Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation (SASRec) effectively captures long-term user preferences by applying attention mechanisms to historical interactions. Concurrently, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has motivated research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kechen Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive zero-shot abilities in solving a wide range of general-purpose tasks. However, it is empirically found that LLMs fall short in recognizing and utilizing temporal information,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zhendong Chu , Zichao Wang , Ruiyi Zhang , Yangfeng Ji , Hongning Wang , Tong Sun

Recent years have witnessed success of sequential modeling, generative recommender, and large language model for recommendation. Though the scaling law has been validated for sequential models, it showed inefficiency in computational…

Existing sequential recommendation models, even advanced diffusion-based approaches, often struggle to capture the rich semantic intent underlying user behavior, especially for new users or long-tail items. This limitation stems from their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Bo-Chian Chen , Manel Slokom

Sequential recommendation is a task to capture hidden user preferences from historical user item interaction data and recommend next items for the user. Significant progress has been made in this domain by leveraging classification based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Panfeng Cao , Pietro Lio

Large language models (LLMs) open up new horizons for sequential recommendations, owing to their remarkable language comprehension and generation capabilities. However, there are still numerous challenges that should be addressed to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yuling Wang , Changxin Tian , Binbin Hu , Yanhua Yu , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Liang Pang , Xiao Wang

Recent advances have applied large language models (LLMs) to sequential recommendation, leveraging their pre-training knowledge and reasoning capabilities to provide more personalized user experiences. However, existing LLM-based methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yutian Liu , Zhengyi Yang , Jiancan Wu , Xiang Wang

Recently, relational metric learning methods have been received great attention in recommendation community, which is inspired by the translation mechanism in knowledge graph. Different from the knowledge graph where the entity-to-entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingming Li , Fuqing Zhu , Feng Yuan , Songlin Hu

The modern recommender systems are facing an increasing challenge of modelling and predicting the dynamic and context-rich user preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering and content-based methods often struggle to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yitong Li , Raoul Grasman

With large language models (LLMs) achieving remarkable breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP) domains, LLM-enhanced recommender systems have received much attention and have been actively explored currently. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jianghao Lin , Rong Shan , Chenxu Zhu , Kounianhua Du , Bo Chen , Shigang Quan , Ruiming Tang , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Leveraging Large Language Models as Recommenders (LLMRec) has gained significant attention and introduced fresh perspectives in user preference modeling. Existing LLMRec approaches prioritize text semantics, usually neglecting the valuable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Jizhi Zhang , Keqin Bao , Qifan Wang , Xiangnan He

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for sequential recommendation. However, current LLM-based approaches face critical limitations in modeling users' long-term and diverse interests. First, due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Jingyi Zhou , Cheng Chen , Kai Zuo , Manjie Xu , Zhendong Fu , Yibo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated prominent reasoning capabilities in recommendation tasks by transforming them into text-generation tasks. However, existing approaches either disregard or ineffectively model the user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xinfeng Wang , Jin Cui , Fumiyo Fukumoto , Yoshimi Suzuki

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

This paper focuses on extending the success of large language models (LLMs) to sequential decision making. Existing efforts either (i) re-train or finetune LLMs for decision making, or (ii) design prompts for pretrained LLMs. The former…

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