Enhancing ID-based Recommendation with Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Chen, Lei, Gao, Chen, Du, Xiaoyi, Luo, Hengliang, Jin, Depeng, Li, Yong, Wang, Meng
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author Chen, Lei
Gao, Chen
Du, Xiaoyi
Luo, Hengliang
Jin, Depeng
Li, Yong
Wang, Meng
author_facet Chen, Lei
Gao, Chen
Du, Xiaoyi
Luo, Hengliang
Jin, Depeng
Li, Yong
Wang, Meng
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently garnered significant attention in various domains, including recommendation systems. Recent research leverages the capabilities of LLMs to improve the performance and user modeling aspects of recommender systems. These studies primarily focus on utilizing LLMs to interpret textual data in recommendation tasks. However, it's worth noting that in ID-based recommendations, textual data is absent, and only ID data is available. The untapped potential of LLMs for ID data within the ID-based recommendation paradigm remains relatively unexplored. To this end, we introduce a pioneering approach called "LLM for ID-based Recommendation" (LLM4IDRec). This innovative approach integrates the capabilities of LLMs while exclusively relying on ID data, thus diverging from the previous reliance on textual data. The basic idea of LLM4IDRec is that by employing LLM to augment ID data, if augmented ID data can improve recommendation performance, it demonstrates the ability of LLM to interpret ID data effectively, exploring an innovative way for the integration of LLM in ID-based recommendation. We evaluate the effectiveness of our LLM4IDRec approach using three widely-used datasets. Our results demonstrate a notable improvement in recommendation performance, with our approach consistently outperforming existing methods in ID-based recommendation by solely augmenting input data.
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spellingShingle Enhancing ID-based Recommendation with Large Language Models
Chen, Lei
Gao, Chen
Du, Xiaoyi
Luo, Hengliang
Jin, Depeng
Li, Yong
Wang, Meng
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently garnered significant attention in various domains, including recommendation systems. Recent research leverages the capabilities of LLMs to improve the performance and user modeling aspects of recommender systems. These studies primarily focus on utilizing LLMs to interpret textual data in recommendation tasks. However, it's worth noting that in ID-based recommendations, textual data is absent, and only ID data is available. The untapped potential of LLMs for ID data within the ID-based recommendation paradigm remains relatively unexplored. To this end, we introduce a pioneering approach called "LLM for ID-based Recommendation" (LLM4IDRec). This innovative approach integrates the capabilities of LLMs while exclusively relying on ID data, thus diverging from the previous reliance on textual data. The basic idea of LLM4IDRec is that by employing LLM to augment ID data, if augmented ID data can improve recommendation performance, it demonstrates the ability of LLM to interpret ID data effectively, exploring an innovative way for the integration of LLM in ID-based recommendation. We evaluate the effectiveness of our LLM4IDRec approach using three widely-used datasets. Our results demonstrate a notable improvement in recommendation performance, with our approach consistently outperforming existing methods in ID-based recommendation by solely augmenting input data.
title Enhancing ID-based Recommendation with Large Language Models
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02041