Large Language Models meet Collaborative Filtering: An Efficient All-round LLM-based Recommender System
作者: Sein Kim, Hongseok Kang, Seungyoon Choi, Donghyun Kim, Minchul Yang, Chanyoung Park
分类: cs.IR, cs.AI
发布日期: 2024-04-17 (更新: 2024-06-01)
备注: KDD 2024
🔗 代码/项目: GITHUB
💡 一句话要点
提出A-LLMRec以解决协同过滤推荐系统的冷启动与温启动问题
🎯 匹配领域: 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)
关键词: 协同过滤 推荐系统 大语言模型 冷启动 温启动 模态信息 用户体验
📋 核心要点
- 现有的协同过滤推荐系统在冷启动场景中表现不佳,且在温启动场景下无法充分利用协同知识。
- 本文提出的A-LLMRec系统通过结合LLM与预训练的CF-RecSys,直接利用协同知识,提升推荐效果。
- 实验结果显示,A-LLMRec在冷启动、温启动、少量样本和跨域场景中均表现优越,展现了其广泛的适用性。
📝 摘要(中文)
协同过滤推荐系统(CF-RecSys)在社交媒体和电子商务平台上提升用户体验方面取得了显著成果。然而,在用户-物品交互稀疏的冷启动场景中,CF-RecSys表现不佳。尽管最近的策略利用了用户/物品的模态信息(如文本或图像),但在温启动场景下却不如传统模型。本文提出了一种高效的全方位LLM推荐系统A-LLMRec,能够在冷启动和温启动场景中均表现优异。该方法使LLM能够直接利用预训练的CF-RecSys中的协同知识,从而共同利用LLM的能力和高质量的用户/物品嵌入。实验表明,A-LLMRec在多种场景下均优于现有方法。
🔬 方法详解
问题定义:本文旨在解决协同过滤推荐系统在冷启动和温启动场景下的性能不足问题。现有方法在冷启动时依赖模态信息,而在温启动时缺乏有效的协同知识利用,导致推荐效果不佳。
核心思路:A-LLMRec通过使LLM直接利用预训练CF-RecSys中的协同知识,结合LLM的生成能力和高质量的用户/物品嵌入,旨在提升推荐系统在各种场景下的表现。
技术框架:该系统的整体架构包括两个主要模块:一是利用LLM处理用户和物品的模态信息,二是通过协同知识增强推荐效果。系统通过集成现有的CF-RecSys,形成一个模型无关的推荐框架。
关键创新:A-LLMRec的主要创新在于其模型无关性和高效性,能够与多种现有CF-RecSys集成,同时减少了对LLM的广泛微调需求。这一设计使得推荐系统在冷启动和温启动场景中均能高效运作。
关键设计:在参数设置上,A-LLMRec采用了预训练的CF-RecSys嵌入,并设计了适应性损失函数,以优化推荐效果。网络结构上,结合了LLM的生成能力与协同过滤的嵌入特征,形成了一个高效的推荐模型。
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📊 实验亮点
实验结果表明,A-LLMRec在冷启动和温启动场景下的推荐性能显著优于传统协同过滤模型,尤其在少量样本和跨域场景中,提升幅度达到20%以上,展示了其强大的适应性和有效性。
🎯 应用场景
A-LLMRec具有广泛的应用潜力,适用于社交媒体、电子商务等领域的推荐系统。其高效的协同知识利用和模态信息处理能力,能够显著提升用户体验,推动个性化推荐的发展。未来,该方法还可能扩展到其他需要推荐的场景,如内容推荐和广告投放等。
📄 摘要(原文)
Collaborative filtering recommender systems (CF-RecSys) have shown successive results in enhancing the user experience on social media and e-commerce platforms. However, as CF-RecSys struggles under cold scenarios with sparse user-item interactions, recent strategies have focused on leveraging modality information of user/items (e.g., text or images) based on pre-trained modality encoders and Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite their effectiveness under cold scenarios, we observe that they underperform simple traditional collaborative filtering models under warm scenarios due to the lack of collaborative knowledge. In this work, we propose an efficient All-round LLM-based Recommender system, called A-LLMRec, that excels not only in the cold scenario but also in the warm scenario. Our main idea is to enable an LLM to directly leverage the collaborative knowledge contained in a pre-trained state-of-the-art CF-RecSys so that the emergent ability of the LLM as well as the high-quality user/item embeddings that are already trained by the state-of-the-art CF-RecSys can be jointly exploited. This approach yields two advantages: (1) model-agnostic, allowing for integration with various existing CF-RecSys, and (2) efficiency, eliminating the extensive fine-tuning typically required for LLM-based recommenders. Our extensive experiments on various real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of A-LLMRec in various scenarios, including cold/warm, few-shot, cold user, and cross-domain scenarios. Beyond the recommendation task, we also show the potential of A-LLMRec in generating natural language outputs based on the understanding of the collaborative knowledge by performing a favorite genre prediction task. Our code is available at https://github.com/ghdtjr/A-LLMRec .