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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

Multimodal recommendation is commonly framed as a feature fusion problem, where textual and visual signals are combined to better model user preference. However, the effectiveness of multimodal recommendation may depend not only on how…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ty Valencia , Burak Barlas , Varun Singhal , Ruchir Bhatia , Wei Yang

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in recommender systems, either improving existing recommendation models or serving as the backbone. However, there exists a large semantic gap between LLMs and recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Bowen Zheng , Yupeng Hou , Hongyu Lu , Yu Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ming Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have led to the development of NLP-based recommender systems that have shown superior performance. However, current models commonly treat items as mere IDs and adopt discriminative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jinming Li , Wentao Zhang , Tian Wang , Guanglei Xiong , Alan Lu , Gerard Medioni

There is a growing interest in utilizing large-scale language models (LLMs) to advance next-generation Recommender Systems (RecSys), driven by their outstanding language understanding and in-context learning capabilities. In this scenario,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Haohao Qu , Wenqi Fan , Zihuai Zhao , Qing Li

With the rise of LLMs, there is an increasing need for intelligent recommendation assistants that can handle complex queries and provide personalized, reasoning-driven recommendations. LLM-based recommenders show potential but face…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jiani Huang , Shijie Wang , Liangbo Ning , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of tasks, generating significant interest in their application to recommendation systems. However, existing methods have not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Jieyong Kim , Hyunseo Kim , Hyunjin Cho , SeongKu Kang , Buru Chang , Jinyoung Yeo , Dongha Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for recommendation thanks to their advanced textual understanding ability and context-awareness. Despite the current practice of training and evaluating LLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sein Kim , Hongseok Kang , Kibum Kim , Jiwan Kim , Donghyun Kim , Minchul Yang , Kwangjin Oh , Julian McAuley , Chanyoung Park

We introduce a new sequential transformer reinforcement learning architecture RLT4Rec and demonstrate that it achieves excellent performance in a range of item recommendation tasks. RLT4Rec uses a relatively simple transformer architecture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Dilina Chandika Rajapakse , Douglas Leith

In recent years, Recommender Systems (RS) have witnessed a transformative shift with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Models such as GPT-3.5/4, Llama, have demonstrated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Junyi Chen , Toyotaro Suzumura

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

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

Recommender systems are critical for delivering personalized content across digital platforms, and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to enhance them with richer world knowledge and explicit reasoning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jingtong Gao , Zeyu Song , Chi Lu , Xiaopeng Li , Derong Xu , Maolin Wang , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao

Generating user-friendly explanations regarding why an item is recommended has become increasingly common, largely due to advances in language generation technology, which can enhance user trust and facilitate more informed decision-making…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yucong Luo , Mingyue Cheng , Hao Zhang , Junyu Lu , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have exhibited significant progress in language understanding and generation. By leveraging textual features, customized LLMs are also applied for recommendation and demonstrate improvements across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Zhenrui Yue , Sara Rabhi , Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira , Dong Wang , Even Oldridge

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been integrated into recommender systems to enhance user behavior comprehension. The Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technique is further incorporated into these systems to retrieve more relevant items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Sichun Luo , Jian Xu , Xiaojie Zhang , Linrong Wang , Sicong Liu , Hanxu Hou , Linqi Song

User profile embedded in the prompt template of personalized recommendation agents play a crucial role in shaping their decision-making process. High-quality user profiles are essential for aligning agent behavior with real user interests.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yunxiao Shi , Wujiang Xu , Zeqi Zhang , Xing Zi , Qiang Wu , Min Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) for Recommendation (LLM4Rec) is a promising research direction that has demonstrated exceptional performance in this field. However, its inability to capture real-time user preferences greatly limits the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Zheqi Lv , Tianyu Zhan , Wenjie Wang , Xinyu Lin , Shengyu Zhang , Wenqiao Zhang , Jiwei Li , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' future interactions by modeling collaborative filtering (CF) signals from historical behaviors of similar users or items. Traditional sequential recommenders predominantly rely on ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yingzhi He , Xiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been integrated into recommendation systems to enhance user behavior comprehension. The Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technique is further incorporated into these systems to retrieve more relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jian Xu , Sichun Luo , Xiangyu Chen , Haoming Huang , Hanxu Hou , Linqi Song