When large language models meet personalization: Perspectives of challenges and opportunities

J Chen, Z Liu, X Huang, C Wu, Q Liu, G Jiang, Y Pu… - World Wide Web, 2024 - Springer
The advent of large language models marks a revolutionary breakthrough in artificial
intelligence. With the unprecedented scale of training and model parameters, the capability …

Large language models are zero-shot rankers for recommender systems

Y Hou, J Zhang, Z Lin, H Lu, R Xie, J McAuley… - … on Information Retrieval, 2024 - Springer
Recently, large language models (LLMs)(eg, GPT-4) have demonstrated impressive general-
purpose task-solving abilities, including the potential to approach recommendation tasks …

Towards universal sequence representation learning for recommender systems

Y Hou, S Mu, WX Zhao, Y Li, B Ding… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In order to develop effective sequential recommenders, a series of sequence representation
learning (SRL) methods are proposed to model historical user behaviors. Most existing SRL …

Recommendation as instruction following: A large language model empowered recommendation approach

J Zhang, R Xie, Y Hou, WX Zhao, L Lin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In the past decades, recommender systems have attracted much attention in both research
and industry communities, and a large number of studies have been devoted to developing …

Text is all you need: Learning language representations for sequential recommendation

J Li, M Wang, J Li, J Fu, X Shen, J Shang… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Sequential recommendation aims to model dynamic user behavior from historical
interactions. Existing methods rely on either explicit item IDs or general textual features for …

Towards open-world recommendation with knowledge augmentation from large language models

Y Xi, W Liu, J Lin, X Cai, H Zhu, J Zhu, B Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems play a vital role in various online services. However, the insulated
nature of training and deploying separately within a specific domain limits their access to …

Where to go next for recommender systems? id-vs. modality-based recommender models revisited

Z Yuan, F Yuan, Y Song, Y Li, J Fu, F Yang… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommendation models that utilize unique identities (IDs for short) to represent distinct
users and items have been state-of-the-art (SOTA) and dominated the recommender …

Learning vector-quantized item representation for transferable sequential recommenders

Y Hou, Z He, J McAuley, WX Zhao - … of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recently, the generality of natural language text has been leveraged to develop transferable
recommender systems. The basic idea is to employ pre-trained language models (PLM) to …

Adapting large language models by integrating collaborative semantics for recommendation

B Zheng, Y Hou, H Lu, Y Chen, WX Zhao… - 2024 IEEE 40th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in recommender
systems, either improving existing recommendation models or serving as the backbone …

Linkless link prediction via relational distillation

Z Guo, W Shiao, S Zhang, Y Liu… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown exceptional performance in the task of
link prediction. Despite their effectiveness, the high latency brought by non-trivial …