arXiv:2508.08512cs.IRcs.AI2025-08被引 1

用大模型捕捉用户时间上下文,提升推荐系统动态理解能力

Using LLMs to Capture Users' Temporal Context for Recommendation

  • 将用户偏好拆解为短期与长期上下文,用大模型生成语义丰富的动态画像
  • 在电影电视等数据密集领域推荐效果显著提升,游戏等稀疏场景提升有限
  • 适合关注用户行为演化、需结合历史数据深度建模的推荐系统研究者

高效的推荐系统需要对用户进行动态理解,尤其在复杂多变的环境中。传统用户画像难以捕捉偏好中的细微时间上下文,如短暂的短期兴趣和持久的长期口味。本文评估了大型语言模型(LLMs)在生成语义丰富、具备时间感知的用户画像方面的表现。我们未提出新的端到端推荐架构,核心贡献在于系统性地探究了大模型在分离短期与长期偏好方面的能力。该方法将时间偏好视为推荐中的动态上下文,自适应融合不同成分形成完整用户嵌入。在电影与电视剧、视频游戏两个领域的评估表明,尽管大模型生成的画像具备语义深度和时间结构,其在上下文感知推荐中的有效性高度依赖用户交互历史的丰富程度。在数据密集领域(如电影与电视剧)有明显提升,在稀疏环境(如视频游戏)中改善不显著。本工作揭示了大模型在增强用户画像以实现自适应、上下文感知推荐方面的潜在价值,强调了数据集特性对实际应用的关键影响。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Effective recommender systems demand dynamic user understanding, especially in complex, evolving environments. Traditional user profiling often fails to capture the nuanced, temporal contextual factors of user preferences, such as transient short-term interests and enduring long-term tastes. This paper presents an assessment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating semantically rich, time-aware user profiles. We do not propose a novel end-to-end recommendation architecture; instead, the core contribution is a systematic investigation into the degree of LLM effectiveness in capturing the dynamics of user context by disentangling short-term and long-term preferences. This approach, framing temporal preferences as dynamic user contexts for recommendations, adaptively fuses these distinct contextual components into comprehensive user embeddings. The evaluation across Movies&TV and Video Games domains suggests that while LLM-generated profiles offer semantic depth and temporal structure, their effectiveness for context-aware recommendations is notably contingent on the richness of user interaction histories. Significant gains are observed in dense domains (e.g., Movies&TV), whereas improvements are less pronounced in sparse environments (e.g., Video Games). This work highlights LLMs' nuanced potential in enhancing user profiling for adaptive, context-aware recommendations, emphasizing the critical role of dataset characteristics for practical applicability.

推荐系统大模型时间上下文用户画像

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