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Hauptverfasser: Meng, Fanjin, Ding, Jingtao, Gong, Jiahui, Yang, Chen, Chen, Hong, Wang, Zuojian, Lu, Haisheng, Li, Yong
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Meng, Fanjin
Ding, Jingtao
Gong, Jiahui
Yang, Chen
Chen, Hong
Wang, Zuojian
Lu, Haisheng
Li, Yong
author_facet Meng, Fanjin
Ding, Jingtao
Gong, Jiahui
Yang, Chen
Chen, Hong
Wang, Zuojian
Lu, Haisheng
Li, Yong
contents Predicting user behavior is essential for intelligent assistant services, yet deep learning models often struggle to capture long-tailed behaviors. Large language models (LLMs), with their pretraining on vast corpora containing rich behavioral knowledge, offer promise. However, existing fine-tuning approaches tend to overfit to frequent ``anchor'' behaviors, reducing their ability to predict less common ``tail'' behaviors. In this paper, we introduce BehaviorLM, a progressive fine-tuning approach that addresses this issue. In the first stage, LLMs are fine-tuned on anchor behaviors while preserving general behavioral knowledge. In the second stage, fine-tuning uses a balanced subset of all behaviors based on sample difficulty to improve tail behavior predictions without sacrificing anchor performance. Experimental results on two real-world datasets demonstrate that BehaviorLM robustly predicts both anchor and tail behaviors and effectively leverages LLM behavioral knowledge to master tail behavior prediction with few-shot examples.
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spellingShingle Tuning Language Models for Robust Prediction of Diverse User Behaviors
Meng, Fanjin
Ding, Jingtao
Gong, Jiahui
Yang, Chen
Chen, Hong
Wang, Zuojian
Lu, Haisheng
Li, Yong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Predicting user behavior is essential for intelligent assistant services, yet deep learning models often struggle to capture long-tailed behaviors. Large language models (LLMs), with their pretraining on vast corpora containing rich behavioral knowledge, offer promise. However, existing fine-tuning approaches tend to overfit to frequent ``anchor'' behaviors, reducing their ability to predict less common ``tail'' behaviors. In this paper, we introduce BehaviorLM, a progressive fine-tuning approach that addresses this issue. In the first stage, LLMs are fine-tuned on anchor behaviors while preserving general behavioral knowledge. In the second stage, fine-tuning uses a balanced subset of all behaviors based on sample difficulty to improve tail behavior predictions without sacrificing anchor performance. Experimental results on two real-world datasets demonstrate that BehaviorLM robustly predicts both anchor and tail behaviors and effectively leverages LLM behavioral knowledge to master tail behavior prediction with few-shot examples.
title Tuning Language Models for Robust Prediction of Diverse User Behaviors
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17682