EAGER-LLM: Enhancing Large Language Models as Recommenders through Exogenous Behavior-Semantic Integration

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Hauptverfasser: Hong, Minjie, Xia, Yan, Wang, Zehan, Zhu, Jieming, Wang, Ye, Cai, Sihang, Yang, Xiaoda, Dai, Quanyu, Dong, Zhenhua, Zhang, Zhimeng, Zhao, Zhou
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author Hong, Minjie
Xia, Yan
Wang, Zehan
Zhu, Jieming
Wang, Ye
Cai, Sihang
Yang, Xiaoda
Dai, Quanyu
Dong, Zhenhua
Zhang, Zhimeng
Zhao, Zhou
author_facet Hong, Minjie
Xia, Yan
Wang, Zehan
Zhu, Jieming
Wang, Ye
Cai, Sihang
Yang, Xiaoda
Dai, Quanyu
Dong, Zhenhua
Zhang, Zhimeng
Zhao, Zhou
contents Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly leveraged as foundational backbones in the development of advanced recommender systems, offering enhanced capabilities through their extensive knowledge and reasoning. Existing llm-based recommender systems (RSs) often face challenges due to the significant differences between the linguistic semantics of pre-trained LLMs and the collaborative semantics essential for RSs. These systems use pre-trained linguistic semantics but learn collaborative semantics from scratch via the llm-Backbone. However, LLMs are not designed for recommendations, leading to inefficient collaborative learning, weak result correlations, and poor integration of traditional RS features. To address these challenges, we propose EAGER-LLM, a decoder-only llm-based generative recommendation framework that integrates endogenous and exogenous behavioral and semantic information in a non-intrusive manner. Specifically, we propose 1)dual-source knowledge-rich item indices that integrates indexing sequences for exogenous signals, enabling efficient link-wide processing; 2)non-invasive multiscale alignment reconstruction tasks guide the model toward a deeper understanding of both collaborative and semantic signals; 3)an annealing adapter designed to finely balance the model's recommendation performance with its comprehension capabilities. We demonstrate EAGER-LLM's effectiveness through rigorous testing on three public benchmarks.
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spellingShingle EAGER-LLM: Enhancing Large Language Models as Recommenders through Exogenous Behavior-Semantic Integration
Hong, Minjie
Xia, Yan
Wang, Zehan
Zhu, Jieming
Wang, Ye
Cai, Sihang
Yang, Xiaoda
Dai, Quanyu
Dong, Zhenhua
Zhang, Zhimeng
Zhao, Zhou
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly leveraged as foundational backbones in the development of advanced recommender systems, offering enhanced capabilities through their extensive knowledge and reasoning. Existing llm-based recommender systems (RSs) often face challenges due to the significant differences between the linguistic semantics of pre-trained LLMs and the collaborative semantics essential for RSs. These systems use pre-trained linguistic semantics but learn collaborative semantics from scratch via the llm-Backbone. However, LLMs are not designed for recommendations, leading to inefficient collaborative learning, weak result correlations, and poor integration of traditional RS features. To address these challenges, we propose EAGER-LLM, a decoder-only llm-based generative recommendation framework that integrates endogenous and exogenous behavioral and semantic information in a non-intrusive manner. Specifically, we propose 1)dual-source knowledge-rich item indices that integrates indexing sequences for exogenous signals, enabling efficient link-wide processing; 2)non-invasive multiscale alignment reconstruction tasks guide the model toward a deeper understanding of both collaborative and semantic signals; 3)an annealing adapter designed to finely balance the model's recommendation performance with its comprehension capabilities. We demonstrate EAGER-LLM's effectiveness through rigorous testing on three public benchmarks.
title EAGER-LLM: Enhancing Large Language Models as Recommenders through Exogenous Behavior-Semantic Integration
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14735