PUB: An LLM-Enhanced Personality-Driven User Behaviour Simulator for Recommender System Evaluation
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| author | Ma, Chenglong Xu, Ziqi Ren, Yongli Hettiachchi, Danula Chan, Jeffrey |
| author_facet | Ma, Chenglong Xu, Ziqi Ren, Yongli Hettiachchi, Danula Chan, Jeffrey |
| contents | Traditional offline evaluation methods for recommender systems struggle to capture the complexity of modern platforms due to sparse behavioural signals, noisy data, and limited modelling of user personality traits. While simulation frameworks can generate synthetic data to address these gaps, existing methods fail to replicate behavioural diversity, limiting their effectiveness. To overcome these challenges, we propose the Personality-driven User Behaviour Simulator (PUB), an LLM-based simulation framework that integrates the Big Five personality traits to model personalised user behaviour. PUB dynamically infers user personality from behavioural logs (e.g., ratings, reviews) and item metadata, then generates synthetic interactions that preserve statistical fidelity to real-world data. Experiments on the Amazon review datasets show that logs generated by PUB closely align with real user behaviour and reveal meaningful associations between personality traits and recommendation outcomes. These results highlight the potential of the personality-driven simulator to advance recommender system evaluation, offering scalable, controllable, high-fidelity alternatives to resource-intensive real-world experiments. |
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| spellingShingle | PUB: An LLM-Enhanced Personality-Driven User Behaviour Simulator for Recommender System Evaluation Ma, Chenglong Xu, Ziqi Ren, Yongli Hettiachchi, Danula Chan, Jeffrey Information Retrieval H.3.3 Traditional offline evaluation methods for recommender systems struggle to capture the complexity of modern platforms due to sparse behavioural signals, noisy data, and limited modelling of user personality traits. While simulation frameworks can generate synthetic data to address these gaps, existing methods fail to replicate behavioural diversity, limiting their effectiveness. To overcome these challenges, we propose the Personality-driven User Behaviour Simulator (PUB), an LLM-based simulation framework that integrates the Big Five personality traits to model personalised user behaviour. PUB dynamically infers user personality from behavioural logs (e.g., ratings, reviews) and item metadata, then generates synthetic interactions that preserve statistical fidelity to real-world data. Experiments on the Amazon review datasets show that logs generated by PUB closely align with real user behaviour and reveal meaningful associations between personality traits and recommendation outcomes. These results highlight the potential of the personality-driven simulator to advance recommender system evaluation, offering scalable, controllable, high-fidelity alternatives to resource-intensive real-world experiments. |
| title | PUB: An LLM-Enhanced Personality-Driven User Behaviour Simulator for Recommender System Evaluation |
| topic | Information Retrieval H.3.3 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04551 |