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LLM-BRec: Personalizing Session-based Social Recommendation with LLM-BERT Fusion Framework

Raksha Jalan

Tushar Prakash

Niranjan Pedanekar*

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SIGIR 2024

2024

Abstract

Recommendation models enhance online user engagement by suggesting personalized content, boosting satisfaction and retention. Session-based Recommender systems (SR) have become a significant approach, focusing on capturing users' short-term preferences for more accurate recommendations. Recently, Session-based Social Recommendation (SSR) has emerged as a new paradigm that extends SR by incorporating users' social networks and historical sessions, aiming to offer more personalized recommendations. However, current SSR models have two significant limitations: First, they have not efficiently explored user's personalized information, as they focus only on current session information. Second, they use computationally heavy graph-based algorithms for session representations, which significantly hampers the model's efficiency, especially during inference. \ To address the aforementioned problems, this paper proposes a novel fusion framework, "LLM-BRec," which incorporates Large Language Models (LLMs) and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer (BERT) to personalize SSR. Here, For session modelling, BERT's transformer architecture and self-attention mechanism are utilized to enhance its computational efficiency by emphasizing relevant contextual information. Additionally, we leverage LLM for user-profile generation to further enhance representation at the inference stage. LLM-BRec has significantly reduced SSR's training and inference time and consistently outperformed the SOTA methods. Experiments on two social datasets and two non-social datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of LLM-BRec.

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