Efficient and Responsible Adaptation of Large Language Models for Robust Top-k Recommendations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00824v1
• Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 19:11:47 GMT
• Title: Efficient and Responsible Adaptation of Large Language Models for Robust Top-k Recommendations
• Authors: Kirandeep Kaur, Chirag Shah,
• Abstract summary: Long user queries from millions of users can degrade the performance of large language models for recommendation. We propose a hybrid task allocation framework that utilizes the capabilities of both large language models and traditional recommendation systems. Our results on three real-world datasets show a significant reduction in weak users and improved robustness of RSs to sub-populations.
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• Abstract: Conventional recommendation systems (RSs) are typically optimized to enhance performance metrics uniformly across all training samples. This makes it hard for data-driven RSs to cater to a diverse set of users due to the varying properties of these users. The performance disparity among various populations can harm the model's robustness with respect to sub-populations. While recent works have shown promising results in adapting large language models (LLMs) for recommendation to address hard samples, long user queries from millions of users can degrade the performance of LLMs and elevate costs, processing times and inference latency. This challenges the practical applicability of LLMs for recommendations. To address this, we propose a hybrid task allocation framework that utilizes the capabilities of both LLMs and traditional RSs. By adopting a two-phase approach to improve robustness to sub-populations, we promote a strategic assignment of tasks for efficient and responsible adaptation of LLMs. Our strategy works by first identifying the weak and inactive users that receive a suboptimal ranking performance by RSs. Next, we use an in-context learning approach for such users, wherein each user interaction history is contextualized as a distinct ranking task and given to an LLM. We test our hybrid framework by incorporating various recommendation algorithms -- collaborative filtering and learning-to-rank recommendation models -- and two LLMs -- both open and close-sourced. Our results on three real-world datasets show a significant reduction in weak users and improved robustness of RSs to sub-populations $(\approx12\%)$ and overall performance without disproportionately escalating costs.

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