4 papers
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…
LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems
Jianling Wang, Haokai Lu, Yifan Liu +9
Traditional recommendation systems are subject to a strong feedback loop by learning from and reinforcing past user-item interactions, which in turn limits the discovery of novel u…
Fresh Content Needs More Attention: Multi-funnel Fresh Content Recommendation
Jianling Wang, Haokai Lu, Sai zhang +10
Recommendation system serves as a conduit connecting users to an incredibly large, diverse and ever growing collection of contents. In practice, missing information on fresh (and t…
Long-Term Value of Exploration: Measurements, Findings and Algorithms
Yi Su, Xiangyu Wang, Elaine Ya Le +12
Effective exploration is believed to positively influence the long-term user experience on recommendation platforms. Determining its exact benefits, however, has been challenging.…