Scaling New Frontiers: Insights into Large Recommendation Models

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Autores principales: Guo, Wei, Wang, Hao, Zhang, Luankang, Chin, Jin Yao, Liu, Zhongzhou, Cheng, Kai, Pan, Qiushi, Lee, Yi Quan, Xue, Wanqi, Shen, Tingjia, Song, Kenan, Wang, Kefan, Xie, Wenjia, Ye, Yuyang, Guo, Huifeng, Liu, Yong, Lian, Defu, Tang, Ruiming, Chen, Enhong
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author Guo, Wei
Wang, Hao
Zhang, Luankang
Chin, Jin Yao
Liu, Zhongzhou
Cheng, Kai
Pan, Qiushi
Lee, Yi Quan
Xue, Wanqi
Shen, Tingjia
Song, Kenan
Wang, Kefan
Xie, Wenjia
Ye, Yuyang
Guo, Huifeng
Liu, Yong
Lian, Defu
Tang, Ruiming
Chen, Enhong
author_facet Guo, Wei
Wang, Hao
Zhang, Luankang
Chin, Jin Yao
Liu, Zhongzhou
Cheng, Kai
Pan, Qiushi
Lee, Yi Quan
Xue, Wanqi
Shen, Tingjia
Song, Kenan
Wang, Kefan
Xie, Wenjia
Ye, Yuyang
Guo, Huifeng
Liu, Yong
Lian, Defu
Tang, Ruiming
Chen, Enhong
contents Recommendation systems are essential for filtering data and retrieving relevant information across various applications. Recent advancements have seen these systems incorporate increasingly large embedding tables, scaling up to tens of terabytes for industrial use. However, the expansion of network parameters in traditional recommendation models has plateaued at tens of millions, limiting further benefits from increased embedding parameters. Inspired by the success of large language models (LLMs), a new approach has emerged that scales network parameters using innovative structures, enabling continued performance improvements. A significant development in this area is Meta's generative recommendation model HSTU, which illustrates the scaling laws of recommendation systems by expanding parameters to thousands of billions. This new paradigm has achieved substantial performance gains in online experiments. In this paper, we aim to enhance the understanding of scaling laws by conducting comprehensive evaluations of large recommendation models. Firstly, we investigate the scaling laws across different backbone architectures of the large recommendation models. Secondly, we conduct comprehensive ablation studies to explore the origins of these scaling laws. We then further assess the performance of HSTU, as the representative of large recommendation models, on complex user behavior modeling tasks to evaluate its applicability. Notably, we also analyze its effectiveness in ranking tasks for the first time. Finally, we offer insights into future directions for large recommendation models. Supplementary materials for our research are available on GitHub at https://github.com/USTC-StarTeam/Large-Recommendation-Models.
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spellingShingle Scaling New Frontiers: Insights into Large Recommendation Models
Guo, Wei
Wang, Hao
Zhang, Luankang
Chin, Jin Yao
Liu, Zhongzhou
Cheng, Kai
Pan, Qiushi
Lee, Yi Quan
Xue, Wanqi
Shen, Tingjia
Song, Kenan
Wang, Kefan
Xie, Wenjia
Ye, Yuyang
Guo, Huifeng
Liu, Yong
Lian, Defu
Tang, Ruiming
Chen, Enhong
Information Retrieval
Recommendation systems are essential for filtering data and retrieving relevant information across various applications. Recent advancements have seen these systems incorporate increasingly large embedding tables, scaling up to tens of terabytes for industrial use. However, the expansion of network parameters in traditional recommendation models has plateaued at tens of millions, limiting further benefits from increased embedding parameters. Inspired by the success of large language models (LLMs), a new approach has emerged that scales network parameters using innovative structures, enabling continued performance improvements. A significant development in this area is Meta's generative recommendation model HSTU, which illustrates the scaling laws of recommendation systems by expanding parameters to thousands of billions. This new paradigm has achieved substantial performance gains in online experiments. In this paper, we aim to enhance the understanding of scaling laws by conducting comprehensive evaluations of large recommendation models. Firstly, we investigate the scaling laws across different backbone architectures of the large recommendation models. Secondly, we conduct comprehensive ablation studies to explore the origins of these scaling laws. We then further assess the performance of HSTU, as the representative of large recommendation models, on complex user behavior modeling tasks to evaluate its applicability. Notably, we also analyze its effectiveness in ranking tasks for the first time. Finally, we offer insights into future directions for large recommendation models. Supplementary materials for our research are available on GitHub at https://github.com/USTC-StarTeam/Large-Recommendation-Models.
title Scaling New Frontiers: Insights into Large Recommendation Models
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00714