This is an actively maintaing curated paper list on recommender systems with large language models. The adopted language models and the correspponding model size, the first pulication date, the first affiliation of the authors are also presented.

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• Pre-train, Prompt and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modelling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ArXiv 2023, 15 Mar 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03735.pdf

• A Survey on Large Language Models for Recommendation, University of Science and Technology of China, ArXiv 2023, 1 Jun 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.19860.pdf

• How Can Recommender Systems Benefit from Large Language Models: A Survey, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, ArXiv 2023, 12 Jun 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05817.pdf

• U-BERT: Pre-training user representations for improved recommendation, Tencent, AAAI 2021, 18 May 2021.

  • Paper link: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/16557
  • Adopted language model: BERT (340 milllion)

• Zeor-shot Recommender Systems. Amazon, ArXiv 2021, 12 Oct 2021.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.08318.pdf
  • Adopted language model: BERT (340 milllion)

• Towards Universal Sequence Representation Learning for Recommender Systems, Renmin University of China, KDD 2022, 14 Aug 2022.

  • Paper link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3534678.3539381?casa_token=aJ-Ili7OeaAAAAAA:Kn_qnglaBAxZ8NUCVtcQ7AqM7q5GyQdzvwc8D8mKyFG0mMbvocmw5VQDNuvL3AH9wb9onPzYPTw
  • Adopted language model: BERT (340 million)

• Learning Vector-Qantized Item Representation for Transferable Sequential Recommenders, Renmin University of China, WWW 2023, 30 Apr 2023.

  • Paper link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3543507.3583434?casa_token=yETRRb_bSf4AAAAA:yuyiF-BgL6uyjwbSCdN0Zia7OifGeZ-vHku5zETltYl8vYhp2eiw6Z9IySBFVKPbK170LPrm1ac
  • Adopted language model: BERT (340 million)

• LLMRec: Large Language Models with Graph Augmentation for Recommendation, HKU&Baidu, WSDM 2024 Oral, 5 Nov 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00423
  • Code link: https://github.com/HKUDS/LLMRec

• Language Models as Recommender Systems: Evaluations and Limitations, Amazon, ICBINB@NeurIPS2021, 19 Oct 2021.

  • Paper link: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=hFx3fY7-m9b
  • Adopted language model: BERT (340 milllion) and GPT-2 (1.5 billion)

• M6-Rec: Generative Pretrained Language Models are Open-Ended Recommender Systems, Alibaba, Arxiv 2022, 19 May 2022.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.08084.pdf
  • Adopted language model: M6 (10-100 billion)

• Recommendation as Language Processing (RLP): A Unified Pretrain, Personalized Prompt & Predict Paradigm (P5), Rutgers University, RecSys 2022, 18 Sep 2022.

  • Paper link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3523227.3546767?casa_token=s3UwOJ1REN0AAAAA:v4II6fdXMjt8sArQcELa79oG0jTIl4BpMyeMCvQvG37K4GiOrPvlG2AcNgWll9mdmZTfL7lcT08
  • Adopted language model: T5 (11 billion)

• Chat-REC: Towards Interactive and Explainable LLMs-Augmented Recommender System, Fudan University, ArXiv 2023, 4 Apr 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14524.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• Zero-Shot Next-Item Recommendation using Large Pretrained Language Models, Singapore Management University, ArXiv 2023, 6 Apr 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03153.pdf
  • Adopted language model: GPT-3 (175 billion)

• Generative Recommendation: Towards Next-generation Recommender Paradigm, National University of Singapore, ArXiv 2023, 7 Apr 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03516.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation, University of Science and Technology of China, ArXiv 2023, 30 Apr 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.00447.pdf
  • Adopted language model: LLaMa (7 billion)

• Is ChatGPT a Good Recommender? A Preliminary Study, Alibaba, ArXiv 2023, 20 Apr 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.10149.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• Do LLMs Understand User Preferences? Evaluating LLMs On User Rating Prediction, Google Research, ArXiv 2023, 10 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.06474.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT and Flan-U-PaLM (540 billion)

• Sparks of Artificial General Recommender (AGR): Early Experiments with ChatGPT, Rutgers University, ArXiv 2023, 8 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.04518.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• Uncovering ChatGPT's Capabilities in Recommender Systems, Remin University of China, ArXiv 2023, 11 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.02182.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT and others

• A First Look at LLM-Powered Generative News Recommendation, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, ArXiv 2023, 11 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.06566.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• Recommendation as Instruction Following: A Large Language Model Empowered Recommendation Approach, Remin University of China, ArXiv 2023, 11 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07001.pdf
  • Adopted language model: Flan-T5-XL (3 billion)

• PALR: Personalization Aware LLMs for Recommendation. Drexel University, ArXiv 2023, 12 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07622.pdf
  • Adopted language model: LLaMa (7 billion)

• Is ChatGPT Fair for Recommendation? Evaluating Fairness in Large Language Model Recommendation, University of Science and Technology of China, ArXiv 2023, 12 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07609.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• How to Index Item IDs for Recommendation Foundation Models. Rutgers University, ArXiv 2023, 12 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.06569.pdf
  • Adopted language model: P5 (11 billion)

• Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Rankers for Recommender Systems, Renmin University of China, ArXiv 2023, 15 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.08845.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• Leveraging Large Language Models in Conversational Recommender Systems, Google Research, ArXiv 2023, 16 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07961.pdf
  • Adopted language model: LaMDA (137 billlion)

• Rethinking the Evaluation for Conversational Recommendation in the Era of Large Language Models, Renmin University of China, ArXiv 2023, 22 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13112.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• BookGPT: A General Framework for Book Recommendation Based on a Large Language Model, AI for Science Institute, ArXiv 2023, 25 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15673.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• UniTRec: A Unified Text-to-Text Transformer and Joint Contrastive Learning Framework for Text-based Recommendation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ACL 2023 (short), May 25 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15756.pdf
  • Adopted language model: BART (140 million)

• Text Is All You Need: Learning Language Representations for Sequential Recommendation, University of California, San Diego, KDD 2023, 26 May 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13731.pdf
  • Adopted language model: Longformer (102 million)

• Prompt Tuning Large Language Models on Personalized Aspect Extraction for Recommendations, New York University, Google Research, ArXiv 2023, 2 Jun 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.01475.pdf
  • Adopted language model: GPT-2 (1.5 billion)

• Large Language Model Augmented Narrative Driven Recommendations, University of Massachusetts, ArXiv 2023, 4 Jun 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.02250.pdf
  • Adopted language model: InstructGPT (175 billion)

• CTRL: Connect Tabular and Language Model for CTR Prediction, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, ArXiv 2023, 8 Jun 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.02841.pdf
  • Adopted language model: RoBERTa (355 million)

• A Preliminary Study of ChatGPT on News Recommendation: Personalization, Provider Fairness, Fake News, Northwestern University, ArXiv 2023, 19 Jun 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.10702.pdf
  • Adopted language model: ChatGPT

• Generative Sequential Recommendation with GPTRec, University of Glasgow, ArXiv 2023, 19 Jun 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11114.pdf
  • Adopted language model: GPT-2 (1.5 billion)

• Towards Open-World Recommendation with Knowledge Augmentation from Large Language Models, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, ArXiv 2023, 19 Jun 2023.

  • Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.10933.pdf

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