STAR: A Simple Training-free Approach for Recommendations using Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16458v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:34:40 GMT
• Title: STAR: A Simple Training-free Approach for Recommendations using Large Language Models
• Authors: Dong-Ho Lee, Adam Kraft, Long Jin, Nikhil Mehta, Taibai Xu, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi, Xinyang Yi,
• Abstract summary: Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) offers promising new approaches for recommendation system (RecSys) tasks. We propose a framework that utilizes LLMs and can be applied to various recommendation tasks without the need for fine-tuning. Our method achieves Hits@10 performance of +23.8% on Beauty, +37.5% on Toys and Games, and -1.8% on Sports and Outdoors.
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• Abstract: Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) offers promising new approaches for recommendation system (RecSys) tasks. While the current state-of-the-art methods rely on fine-tuning LLMs to achieve optimal results, this process is costly and introduces significant engineering complexities. Conversely, methods that bypass fine-tuning and use LLMs directly are less resource-intensive but often fail to fully capture both semantic and collaborative information, resulting in sub-optimal performance compared to their fine-tuned counterparts. In this paper, we propose a Simple Training-free Approach for Recommendation (STAR), a framework that utilizes LLMs and can be applied to various recommendation tasks without the need for fine-tuning. Our approach involves a retrieval stage that uses semantic embeddings from LLMs combined with collaborative user information to retrieve candidate items. We then apply an LLM for pairwise ranking to enhance next-item prediction. Experimental results on the Amazon Review dataset show competitive performance for next item prediction, even with our retrieval stage alone. Our full method achieves Hits@10 performance of +23.8% on Beauty, +37.5% on Toys and Games, and -1.8% on Sports and Outdoors relative to the best supervised models. This framework offers an effective alternative to traditional supervised models, highlighting the potential of LLMs in recommendation systems without extensive training or custom architectures.

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