4 papers
ORBIT: Preserving Foundational Language Capabilities in GenRetrieval via Origin-Regulated Merging
Neha Verma, Nikhil Mehta, Shao-Chuan Wang +7
Despite the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) development, fine-tuning them for specific tasks often results in the catastrophic forgetting of their general, languag…
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…
Toward Holistic Evaluation of Recommender Systems Powered by Generative Models
Yashar Deldjoo, Nikhil Mehta, Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy +3
Recommender systems powered by generative models (Gen-RecSys) extend beyond classical item ranking by producing open-ended content, which simultaneously unlocks richer user experie…
STAR: A Simple Training-free Approach for Recommendations using Large Language Models
Dong-Ho Lee, Adam Kraft, Long Jin +5
Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) offers promising new approaches for recommendation system tasks. While the current state-of-the-art methods rely on fine-tuning LLMs…