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For researchers leveraging Large-Language Models (LLMs) in the generation of training datasets, especially for conversational recommender systems - the absence of robust evaluation frameworks has been a long-standing problem. The efficiency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Harsh Lara , Manoj Tiwari

Digital footprints (records of individuals' interactions with digital systems) are essential for studying behavior, developing personalized applications, and training machine learning models. However, research in this area is often hindered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Minjia Wang , Yunfeng Wang , Xiao Ma , Dexin Lv , Qifan Guo , Lynn Zheng , Benliang Wang , Lei Wang , Jiannan Li , Yongwei Xing , David Xu , Zheng Sun

This paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) can enhance recommender systems, with a specific focus on Conversational Recommender Systems that leverage user preferences and personalised candidate selections from existing ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Mateo Gutierrez Granada , Dina Zilbershtein , Daan Odijk , Francesco Barile

Traditional recommender systems (RecSys) primarily infer user preferences from implicit signals (such as clicks, watches, and purchases), often neglecting the rich explicit contextual feedback users provide through verbal text, like…

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

This research explores the application of large language models (LLMs) to generate synthetic datasets for Product Desirability Toolkit (PDT) testing, a key component in evaluating user sentiment and product experience. Utilizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 John D. Hastings , Sherri Weitl-Harms , Joseph Doty , Zachary J. Myers , Warren Thompson

User profiling is pivotal for recommendation systems, as it transforms raw user interaction data into concise and structured representations that drive personalized recommendations. While traditional embedding-based profiles lack…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Lu Wang , Di Zhang , Fangkai Yang , Pu Zhao , Jianfeng Liu , Yuefeng Zhan , Hao Sun , Qingwei Lin , Weiwei Deng , Dongmei Zhang , Feng Sun , Qi Zhang

A long-standing challenge in developing accurate recommendation models is simulating user behavior, mainly due to the complex and stochastic nature of user interactions. Towards this, one promising line of work has been the use of Large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Himanshu Thakur , Eshani Agrawal , Smruthi Mukund

In today's digitally-driven world, the demand for personalized and context-aware recommendations has never been greater. Traditional recommender systems have made significant strides in this direction, but they often lack the ability to tap…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Piyush Talegaonkar , Siddhant Hole , Shrinesh Kamble , Prashil Gulechha , Deepali Salapurkar

Product review generation is an important task in recommender systems, which could provide explanation and persuasiveness for the recommendation. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs, e.g., ChatGPT) have shown superior text modeling and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu , Hongyan Xu , Qing Yang , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

Tourism Recommender Systems (TRS) are crucial in personalizing travel experiences by tailoring recommendations to users' preferences, constraints, and contextual factors. However, publicly available travel datasets often lack sufficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ashmi Banerjee , Adithi Satish , Fitri Nur Aisyah , Wolfgang Wörndl , Yashar Deldjoo

High-quality data is essential for conversational recommendation systems and serves as the cornerstone of the network architecture development and training strategy design. Existing works contribute heavy human efforts to manually labeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Yu Lu , Junwei Bao , Zichen Ma , Xiaoguang Han , Youzheng Wu , Shuguang Cui , Xiaodong He

Recommending suitable jobs to users is a critical task in online recruitment platforms, as it can enhance users' satisfaction and the platforms' profitability. While existing job recommendation methods encounter challenges such as the low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yingpeng Du , Di Luo , Rui Yan , Hongzhi Liu , Yang Song , Hengshu Zhu , Jie Zhang

In today's digital world, streaming platforms offer a vast array of movies, making it hard for users to find content matching their preferences. This paper explores integrating real time data from popular movie websites using advanced HTML…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Pronit Raj , Chandrashekhar Kumar , Harshit Shekhar , Amit Kumar , Kritibas Paul , Debasish Jana

The analysis and mining of user heterogeneous behavior are of paramount importance in recommendation systems. However, the conventional approach of incorporating various types of heterogeneous behavior into recommendation models leads to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bin Yin , Junjie Xie , Yu Qin , Zixiang Ding , Zhichao Feng , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the capabilities of text comprehension and generation. Multi-modal generation attracts great attention from both the industry and academia, but there is little work on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xiaoteng Shen , Rui Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhao , Jieming Zhu , Xi Xiao

Conversational recommender system is an emerging area that has garnered an increasing interest in the community, especially with the advancements in large language models (LLMs) that enable diverse reasoning over conversational input.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Minjin Kim , Minju Kim , Hana Kim , Beong-woo Kwak , Soyeon Chun , Hyunseo Kim , SeongKu Kang , Youngjae Yu , Jinyoung Yeo , Dongha Lee

The public availability of collections containing user preferences is of vital importance for performing offline evaluations in the field of recommender systems. However, the number of rating datasets is limited because of the costs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Diego Monti , Giuseppe Rizzo , Maurizio Morisio

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in handling general knowledge tasks, yet they struggle with user-specific personalization, such as understanding individual emotions, writing styles, and preferences. Personalized Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiahong Liu , Zexuan Qiu , Zhongyang Li , Quanyu Dai , Wenhao Yu , Jieming Zhu , Minda Hu , Menglin Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Irwin King

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become powerful foundations for generative recommender systems, framing recommendation tasks as text generation tasks. However, existing generative recommendation methods often rely on discrete ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jerome Ramos , Bin Wu , Aldo Lipani