ULMRec: User-centric Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05543v1
• Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 05:37:00 GMT
• Title: ULMRec: User-centric Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation
• Authors: Minglai Shao, Hua Huang, Qiyao Peng, Hongtao Liu,
• Abstract summary: We propose ULMRec, a framework that integrates user personalized preferences into Large Language Models. Extensive experiments on two public datasets demonstrate that ULMRec significantly outperforms existing methods.
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• Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in sequential recommendation tasks, leveraging their superior language understanding capabilities. However, existing LLM-based recommendation approaches predominantly focus on modeling item-level co-occurrence patterns while failing to adequately capture user-level personalized preferences. This is problematic since even users who display similar behavioral patterns (e.g., clicking or purchasing similar items) may have fundamentally different underlying interests. To alleviate this problem, in this paper, we propose ULMRec, a framework that effectively integrates user personalized preferences into LLMs for sequential recommendation. Considering there has the semantic gap between item IDs and LLMs, we replace item IDs with their corresponding titles in user historical behaviors, enabling the model to capture the item semantics. For integrating the user personalized preference, we design two key components: (1) user indexing: a personalized user indexing mechanism that leverages vector quantization on user reviews and user IDs to generate meaningful and unique user representations, and (2) alignment tuning: an alignment-based tuning stage that employs comprehensive preference alignment tasks to enhance the model's capability in capturing personalized information. Through this design, ULMRec achieves deep integration of language semantics with user personalized preferences, facilitating effective adaptation to recommendation. Extensive experiments on two public datasets demonstrate that ULMRec significantly outperforms existing methods, validating the effectiveness of our approach.

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