6 papers
Selecting User Histories to Generate LLM Users for Cold-Start Item Recommendation
Nachiket Subbaraman, Jaskinder Sarai, Aniruddh Nath +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, generalization, and simulating human-like behavior across a wide range of tasks. These strength…
Balancing Fine-tuning and RAG: A Hybrid Strategy for Dynamic LLM Recommendation Updates
Changping Meng, Hongyi Ling, Jianling Wang +9
Large Language Models (LLMs) empower recommendation systems through their advanced reasoning and planning capabilities. However, the dynamic nature of user interests and content po…
PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations
Ruining He, Lukasz Heldt, Lichan Hong +20
Large Language Models (LLMs) pose a new paradigm of modeling and computation for information tasks. Recommendation systems are a critical application domain poised to benefit signi…
ReMem: Mutual Information-Aware Fine-tuning of Pretrained Vision Transformers for Effective Knowledge Distillation
Chengyu Dong, Huan Gui, Noveen Sachdeva +6
Knowledge distillation from pretrained visual representation models offers an effective approach to improve small, task-specific production models. However, the effectiveness of su…
Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM
Haoting Wang, Jianling Wang, Hao Li +9
Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…
User Feedback Alignment for LLM-powered Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems
Jianling Wang, Yifan Liu, Yinghao Sun +11
Exploration, the act of broadening user experiences beyond their established preferences, is challenging in large-scale recommendation systems due to feedback loops and limited sig…