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
Molar: Multimodal LLMs with Collaborative Filtering Alignment for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
Yucong Luo, Qitao Qin, Hao Zhang, Mingyue Cheng, Ruiran Yan, Kefan Wang, Jie Ouyang
Prompt Tuning for Item Cold-start Recommendation
Yuezihan Jiang, Gaode Chen, Wenhan Zhang, Jingchi Wang, Yinjie Jiang, Qi Zhang, Jingjian Lin, Peng Jiang, Kaigui Bian