Empowering Retrieval-based Conversational Recommendation with Contrasting User Preferences

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22005v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:45:49 GMT
• Title: Empowering Retrieval-based Conversational Recommendation with Contrasting User Preferences
• Authors: Heejin Kook, Junyoung Kim, Seongmin Park, Jongwuk Lee,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel conversational recommender model, called COntrasting user pReference expAnsion and Learning (CORAL)<n>CORAL extracts the user's hidden preferences through contrasting preference expansion.<n>It explicitly differentiates the contrasting preferences and leverages them into the recommendation process via preference-aware learning.
• Score: 12.249992789091415
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are designed to suggest the target item that the user is likely to prefer through multi-turn conversations. Recent studies stress that capturing sentiments in user conversations improves recommendation accuracy. However, they employ a single user representation, which may fail to distinguish between contrasting user intentions, such as likes and dislikes, potentially leading to suboptimal performance. To this end, we propose a novel conversational recommender model, called COntrasting user pReference expAnsion and Learning (CORAL). Firstly, CORAL extracts the user's hidden preferences through contrasting preference expansion using the reasoning capacity of the LLMs. Based on the potential preference, CORAL explicitly differentiates the contrasting preferences and leverages them into the recommendation process via preference-aware learning. Extensive experiments show that CORAL significantly outperforms existing methods in three benchmark datasets, improving up to 99.72% in Recall@10. The code and datasets are available at https://github.com/kookeej/CORAL

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