LLM-EDT: Large Language Model Enhanced Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation with Dual-phase Training

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Main Authors: Liu, Ziwei, Liu, Qidong, Wang, Wanyu, Wang, Yejing, Jia, Pengyue, Xu, Tong, Huang, Wei, Chen, Chong, Zhao, Xiangyu
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author Liu, Ziwei
Liu, Qidong
Wang, Wanyu
Wang, Yejing
Jia, Pengyue
Xu, Tong
Huang, Wei
Chen, Chong
Zhao, Xiangyu
author_facet Liu, Ziwei
Liu, Qidong
Wang, Wanyu
Wang, Yejing
Jia, Pengyue
Xu, Tong
Huang, Wei
Chen, Chong
Zhao, Xiangyu
contents Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) has been proposed to enrich user-item interactions by incorporating information from various domains. Despite current progress, the imbalance issue and transition issue hinder further development of CDSR. The former one presents a phenomenon that the interactions in one domain dominate the entire behavior, leading to difficulty in capturing the domain-specific features in the other domain. The latter points to the difficulty in capturing users' cross-domain preferences within the mixed interaction sequence, resulting in poor next-item prediction performance for specific domains. With world knowledge and powerful reasoning ability, Large Language Models (LLMs) partially alleviate the above issues by performing as a generator and an encoder. However, current LLMs-enhanced CDSR methods are still under exploration, which fail to recognize the irrelevant noise and rough profiling problems. Thus, to make peace with the aforementioned challenges, we proposed an LLMs Enhanced Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation with Dual-phase Training ({LLM-EDT}). To address the imbalance issue while introducing less irrelevant noise, we first propose the transferable item augmenter to adaptively generate possible cross-domain behaviors for users. Then, to alleviate the transition issue, we introduce a dual-phase training strategy to empower the domain-specific thread with a domain-shared background. As for the rough profiling problem, we devise a domain-aware profiling module to summarize the user's preference in each domain and adaptively aggregate them to generate comprehensive user profiles. The experiments on three public datasets validate the effectiveness of our proposed LLM-EDT. To ease reproducibility, we have released the detailed code online at {https://anonymous.4open.science/r/LLM-EDT-583F}.
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spellingShingle LLM-EDT: Large Language Model Enhanced Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation with Dual-phase Training
Liu, Ziwei
Liu, Qidong
Wang, Wanyu
Wang, Yejing
Jia, Pengyue
Xu, Tong
Huang, Wei
Chen, Chong
Zhao, Xiangyu
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) has been proposed to enrich user-item interactions by incorporating information from various domains. Despite current progress, the imbalance issue and transition issue hinder further development of CDSR. The former one presents a phenomenon that the interactions in one domain dominate the entire behavior, leading to difficulty in capturing the domain-specific features in the other domain. The latter points to the difficulty in capturing users' cross-domain preferences within the mixed interaction sequence, resulting in poor next-item prediction performance for specific domains. With world knowledge and powerful reasoning ability, Large Language Models (LLMs) partially alleviate the above issues by performing as a generator and an encoder. However, current LLMs-enhanced CDSR methods are still under exploration, which fail to recognize the irrelevant noise and rough profiling problems. Thus, to make peace with the aforementioned challenges, we proposed an LLMs Enhanced Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation with Dual-phase Training ({LLM-EDT}). To address the imbalance issue while introducing less irrelevant noise, we first propose the transferable item augmenter to adaptively generate possible cross-domain behaviors for users. Then, to alleviate the transition issue, we introduce a dual-phase training strategy to empower the domain-specific thread with a domain-shared background. As for the rough profiling problem, we devise a domain-aware profiling module to summarize the user's preference in each domain and adaptively aggregate them to generate comprehensive user profiles. The experiments on three public datasets validate the effectiveness of our proposed LLM-EDT. To ease reproducibility, we have released the detailed code online at {https://anonymous.4open.science/r/LLM-EDT-583F}.
title LLM-EDT: Large Language Model Enhanced Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation with Dual-phase Training
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19931