Recommendation Task
Recommendation tasks aim to predict user preferences and suggest relevant items, improving user experience across various domains. Current research heavily focuses on integrating large language models (LLMs) with collaborative filtering techniques, exploring architectures like hierarchical LLMs and hybrid models that combine textual and ID-based information to enhance recommendation accuracy, particularly in cold-start scenarios and long-tail items. This active research area is significant because improved recommendation systems directly impact user engagement and satisfaction in e-commerce, social media, and other applications, while also presenting novel challenges in model design, evaluation, and bias mitigation.
Papers
Behavior Alignment: A New Perspective of Evaluating LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems
Dayu Yang, Fumian Chen, Hui Fang
Large Language Models meet Collaborative Filtering: An Efficient All-round LLM-based Recommender System
Sein Kim, Hongseok Kang, Seungyoon Choi, Donghyun Kim, Minchul Yang, Chanyoung Park