Towards a Unified Paradigm: Integrating Recommendation Systems as a New Language in Large Models

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Main Authors: Zheng, Kai, Sun, Qingfeng, Xu, Can, Yu, Peng, Guo, Qingwei
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Published: 2024
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author Zheng, Kai
Sun, Qingfeng
Xu, Can
Yu, Peng
Guo, Qingwei
author_facet Zheng, Kai
Sun, Qingfeng
Xu, Can
Yu, Peng
Guo, Qingwei
contents This paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation, which predicts users' future interactions based on their past behavior. We introduce a new concept, "Integrating Recommendation Systems as a New Language in Large Models" (RSLLM), which combines the strengths of traditional recommenders and LLMs. RSLLM uses a unique prompting method that combines ID-based item embeddings from conventional recommendation models with textual item features. It treats users' sequential behaviors as a distinct language and aligns the ID embeddings with the LLM's input space using a projector. We also propose a two-stage LLM fine-tuning framework that refines a pretrained LLM using a combination of two contrastive losses and a language modeling loss. The LLM is first fine-tuned using text-only prompts, followed by target domain fine-tuning with unified prompts. This trains the model to incorporate behavioral knowledge from the traditional sequential recommender into the LLM. Our empirical results validate the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
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spellingShingle Towards a Unified Paradigm: Integrating Recommendation Systems as a New Language in Large Models
Zheng, Kai
Sun, Qingfeng
Xu, Can
Yu, Peng
Guo, Qingwei
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
This paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation, which predicts users' future interactions based on their past behavior. We introduce a new concept, "Integrating Recommendation Systems as a New Language in Large Models" (RSLLM), which combines the strengths of traditional recommenders and LLMs. RSLLM uses a unique prompting method that combines ID-based item embeddings from conventional recommendation models with textual item features. It treats users' sequential behaviors as a distinct language and aligns the ID embeddings with the LLM's input space using a projector. We also propose a two-stage LLM fine-tuning framework that refines a pretrained LLM using a combination of two contrastive losses and a language modeling loss. The LLM is first fine-tuned using text-only prompts, followed by target domain fine-tuning with unified prompts. This trains the model to incorporate behavioral knowledge from the traditional sequential recommender into the LLM. Our empirical results validate the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
title Towards a Unified Paradigm: Integrating Recommendation Systems as a New Language in Large Models
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16933