News Recommendation with Category Description by a Large Language Model

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Main Authors: Yada, Yuki, Yamana, Hayato
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author Yada, Yuki
Yamana, Hayato
author_facet Yada, Yuki
Yamana, Hayato
contents Personalized news recommendations are essential for online news platforms to assist users in discovering news articles that match their interests from a vast amount of online content. Appropriately encoded content features, such as text, categories, and images, are essential for recommendations. Among these features, news categories, such as tv-golden-globe, finance-real-estate, and news-politics, play an important role in understanding news content, inspiring us to enhance the categories' descriptions. In this paper, we propose a novel method that automatically generates informative category descriptions using a large language model (LLM) without manual effort or domain-specific knowledge and incorporates them into recommendation models as additional information. In our comprehensive experimental evaluations using the MIND dataset, our method successfully achieved 5.8% improvement at most in AUC compared with baseline approaches without the LLM's generated category descriptions for the state-of-the-art content-based recommendation models including NAML, NRMS, and NPA. These results validate the effectiveness of our approach. The code is available at https://github.com/yamanalab/gpt-augmented-news-recommendation.
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spellingShingle News Recommendation with Category Description by a Large Language Model
Yada, Yuki
Yamana, Hayato
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Personalized news recommendations are essential for online news platforms to assist users in discovering news articles that match their interests from a vast amount of online content. Appropriately encoded content features, such as text, categories, and images, are essential for recommendations. Among these features, news categories, such as tv-golden-globe, finance-real-estate, and news-politics, play an important role in understanding news content, inspiring us to enhance the categories' descriptions. In this paper, we propose a novel method that automatically generates informative category descriptions using a large language model (LLM) without manual effort or domain-specific knowledge and incorporates them into recommendation models as additional information. In our comprehensive experimental evaluations using the MIND dataset, our method successfully achieved 5.8% improvement at most in AUC compared with baseline approaches without the LLM's generated category descriptions for the state-of-the-art content-based recommendation models including NAML, NRMS, and NPA. These results validate the effectiveness of our approach. The code is available at https://github.com/yamanalab/gpt-augmented-news-recommendation.
title News Recommendation with Category Description by a Large Language Model
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13007