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Making Collaborative Signals Count: Graph-Aware Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation
Fenglin Yan, Bohao Wang, Jian Zhang +5
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted as backbones for recommender systems. However, their language-centric pretraining makes it difficult to capture collaborative…
SmartGR: Hierarchy and Beam-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Generative Recommendation
Ziheng Zhang, Yu Cui, Bohao Wang +6
Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for recommender systems. Scaling up GR models can improve recommendation performance, but it also substantially i…
SpecFormer: Mitigating Embedding and Attention Collapse via Spectral-Aware Transformer for Recommendation
Yu Cui, Yi Xu, Jiahao Wang +6
Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains; however, directly applying their standard self-attention mechanism to recommendation often yields…
IMFuse: Instance-Aware Multi-Layer Fusion for LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
Yuheng Zheng, Yu Cui, Bin Wu +4
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced sequential recommendation by encoding rich item textual information into semantic representations. H…
LBR: Towards Mitigating Length Bias in Large Language Models for Recommendation
Hongchen Li, Bohao Wang, Jingbang Chen +5
Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful backbones for recommender systems by reformulating recommendation as a token-level generation task. Despite their pro…
BEAR: Towards Beam-Search-Aware Optimization for Recommendation with Large Language Models
Weiqin Yang, Bohao Wang, Zhenxiang Xu +5
Recent years have seen a rapid surge in research leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for recommendation. These methods typically employ supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to adapt LL…
SpecTran: Spectral-Aware Transformer-based Adapter for LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Zhaoxiang Wang +4
Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) models learn low-dimensional item ID embeddings from user-item interactions, often overlooking textual information such as item titles or…
HatLLM: Hierarchical Attention Masking for Enhanced Collaborative Modeling in LLM-based Recommendation
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +6
Recent years have witnessed a surge of research on leveraging large language models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation. LLMs have demonstrated remarkable potential in inferring u…
Does LLM Focus on the Right Words? Mitigating Context Bias in LLM-based Recommenders
Bohao Wang, Jiawei Chen, Feng Liu +5
Large language models (LLMs), owing to their extensive open-domain knowledge and semantic reasoning capabilities, have been increasingly integrated into recommender systems (RS). H…
OThink-R1: Intrinsic Fast/Slow Thinking Mode Switching for Over-Reasoning Mitigation
Shengjia Zhang, Junjie Wu, Jiawei Chen +7
Human cognition operates through two complementary modes: fast intuitive thinking and slow deliberate thinking. Vanilla large language models (LLMs) predominantly follow the fast-t…
Field Matters: A Lightweight LLM-enhanced Method for CTR Prediction
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +6
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental task in modern recommender systems. In recent years, the integration of large language models (LLMs) has been shown to effectiv…
MSL: Not All Tokens Are What You Need for Tuning LLM as a Recommender
Bohao Wang, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +7
Large language models (LLMs), known for their comprehension capabilities and extensive knowledge, have been increasingly applied to recommendation systems (RS). Given the fundament…
LLM4DSR: Leveraging Large Language Model for Denoising Sequential Recommendation
Bohao Wang, Feng Liu, Changwang Zhang +8
Sequential Recommenders generate recommendations based on users' historical interaction sequences. However, in practice, these collected sequences are often contaminated by noisy i…
Distillation Matters: Empowering Sequential Recommenders to Match the Performance of Large Language Model
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Pengbo Wang +5
Owing to their powerful semantic reasoning capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been effectively utilized as recommenders, achieving impressive performance. However, the…