BehaveGPT: A Foundation Model for Large-scale User Behavior Modeling

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Main Authors: Gong, Jiahui, Ding, Jingtao, Meng, Fanjin, Yang, Chen, Chen, Hong, Wang, Zuojian, Lu, Haisheng, Li, Yong
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author Gong, Jiahui
Ding, Jingtao
Meng, Fanjin
Yang, Chen
Chen, Hong
Wang, Zuojian
Lu, Haisheng
Li, Yong
author_facet Gong, Jiahui
Ding, Jingtao
Meng, Fanjin
Yang, Chen
Chen, Hong
Wang, Zuojian
Lu, Haisheng
Li, Yong
contents In recent years, foundational models have revolutionized the fields of language and vision, demonstrating remarkable abilities in understanding and generating complex data; however, similar advances in user behavior modeling have been limited, largely due to the complexity of behavioral data and the challenges involved in capturing intricate temporal and contextual relationships in user activities. To address this, we propose BehaveGPT, a foundational model designed specifically for large-scale user behavior prediction. Leveraging transformer-based architecture and a novel pretraining paradigm, BehaveGPT is trained on vast user behavior datasets, allowing it to learn complex behavior patterns and support a range of downstream tasks, including next behavior prediction, long-term generation, and cross-domain adaptation. Our approach introduces the DRO-based pretraining paradigm tailored for user behavior data, which improves model generalization and transferability by equitably modeling both head and tail behaviors. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that BehaveGPT outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving more than a 10% improvement in macro and weighted recall, showcasing its ability to effectively capture and predict user behavior. Furthermore, we measure the scaling law in the user behavior domain for the first time on the Honor dataset, providing insights into how model performance scales with increased data and parameter sizes.
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spellingShingle BehaveGPT: A Foundation Model for Large-scale User Behavior Modeling
Gong, Jiahui
Ding, Jingtao
Meng, Fanjin
Yang, Chen
Chen, Hong
Wang, Zuojian
Lu, Haisheng
Li, Yong
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
In recent years, foundational models have revolutionized the fields of language and vision, demonstrating remarkable abilities in understanding and generating complex data; however, similar advances in user behavior modeling have been limited, largely due to the complexity of behavioral data and the challenges involved in capturing intricate temporal and contextual relationships in user activities. To address this, we propose BehaveGPT, a foundational model designed specifically for large-scale user behavior prediction. Leveraging transformer-based architecture and a novel pretraining paradigm, BehaveGPT is trained on vast user behavior datasets, allowing it to learn complex behavior patterns and support a range of downstream tasks, including next behavior prediction, long-term generation, and cross-domain adaptation. Our approach introduces the DRO-based pretraining paradigm tailored for user behavior data, which improves model generalization and transferability by equitably modeling both head and tail behaviors. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that BehaveGPT outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving more than a 10% improvement in macro and weighted recall, showcasing its ability to effectively capture and predict user behavior. Furthermore, we measure the scaling law in the user behavior domain for the first time on the Honor dataset, providing insights into how model performance scales with increased data and parameter sizes.
title BehaveGPT: A Foundation Model for Large-scale User Behavior Modeling
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17631