Enhancing High-order Interaction Awareness in LLM-based Recommender Model

Xinfeng Wang, Jin Cui, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki


Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated prominent reasoning capabilities in recommendation tasks by transforming them into text-generation tasks. However, existing approaches either disregard or ineffectively model the user-item high-order interactions. To this end, this paper presents an enhanced LLM-based recommender (ELMRec). We enhance whole-word embeddings to substantially enhance LLMs’ interpretation of graph-constructed interactions for recommendations, without requiring graph pre-training. This finding may inspire endeavors to incorporate rich knowledge graphs into LLM-based recommenders via whole-word embedding. We also found that LLMs often recommend items based on users’ earlier interactions rather than recent ones, and present a reranking solution. Our ELMRec outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, especially achieving a 124.3% to 293.7% improvement over SOTA LLM-based methods in direct recommendations. Our code is available online.
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2024.emnlp-main.653
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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11696–11711
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Xinfeng Wang, Jin Cui, Fumiyo Fukumoto, and Yoshimi Suzuki. 2024. Enhancing High-order Interaction Awareness in LLM-based Recommender Model. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 11696–11711, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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