Enhancing Sequential Recommendation with World Knowledge from Large Language Models

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Autori principali: Dai, Tianjie, Chen, Xu, Shu, Yunmeng, Lan, Jinsong, Zhu, Xiaoyong, Yao, Jiangchao, Zheng, Bo
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author Dai, Tianjie
Chen, Xu
Shu, Yunmeng
Lan, Jinsong
Zhu, Xiaoyong
Yao, Jiangchao
Zheng, Bo
author_facet Dai, Tianjie
Chen, Xu
Shu, Yunmeng
Lan, Jinsong
Zhu, Xiaoyong
Yao, Jiangchao
Zheng, Bo
contents Sequential Recommendation System~(SRS) has become pivotal in modern society, which predicts subsequent actions based on the user's historical behavior. However, traditional collaborative filtering-based sequential recommendation models often lead to suboptimal performance due to the limited information of their collaborative signals. With the rapid development of LLMs, an increasing number of works have incorporated LLMs' world knowledge into sequential recommendation. Although they achieve considerable gains, these approaches typically assume the correctness of LLM-generated results and remain susceptible to noise induced by LLM hallucinations. To overcome these limitations, we propose GRASP (Generation Augmented Retrieval with Holistic Attention for Sequential Prediction), a flexible framework that integrates generation augmented retrieval for descriptive synthesis and similarity retrieval, and holistic attention enhancement which employs multi-level attention to effectively employ LLM's world knowledge even with hallucinations and better capture users' dynamic interests. The retrieved similar users/items serve as auxiliary contextual information for the later holistic attention enhancement module, effectively mitigating the noisy guidance of supervision-based methods. Comprehensive evaluations on two public benchmarks and one industrial dataset reveal that GRASP consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance when integrated with diverse backbones. The code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/GRASP-SRS.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Sequential Recommendation with World Knowledge from Large Language Models
Dai, Tianjie
Chen, Xu
Shu, Yunmeng
Lan, Jinsong
Zhu, Xiaoyong
Yao, Jiangchao
Zheng, Bo
Information Retrieval
Sequential Recommendation System~(SRS) has become pivotal in modern society, which predicts subsequent actions based on the user's historical behavior. However, traditional collaborative filtering-based sequential recommendation models often lead to suboptimal performance due to the limited information of their collaborative signals. With the rapid development of LLMs, an increasing number of works have incorporated LLMs' world knowledge into sequential recommendation. Although they achieve considerable gains, these approaches typically assume the correctness of LLM-generated results and remain susceptible to noise induced by LLM hallucinations. To overcome these limitations, we propose GRASP (Generation Augmented Retrieval with Holistic Attention for Sequential Prediction), a flexible framework that integrates generation augmented retrieval for descriptive synthesis and similarity retrieval, and holistic attention enhancement which employs multi-level attention to effectively employ LLM's world knowledge even with hallucinations and better capture users' dynamic interests. The retrieved similar users/items serve as auxiliary contextual information for the later holistic attention enhancement module, effectively mitigating the noisy guidance of supervision-based methods. Comprehensive evaluations on two public benchmarks and one industrial dataset reveal that GRASP consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance when integrated with diverse backbones. The code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/GRASP-SRS.
title Enhancing Sequential Recommendation with World Knowledge from Large Language Models
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20177