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| Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Model Enhancement and Collaborative Information Fusion |
| ZHA Longbao1, HUANG Qi1, WANG Mingwen1, ZHOU Junxiang1, LUO Wenbing1 |
| 1. School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022 |
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Abstract Existing sequential recommendation methods fail to fully explore item attribute semantic information and suffer from a semantic space migration mismatch. These limitations result in inadequate recommendation capabilities of the existing methods for long-tail items. To address this issue, a method for sequential recommendation with large language model enhancement and collaborative information fusion(LLM-CFSR) is proposed in this paper. First, fine-grained semantic embeddings are generated with a large language model through attribute-level data augmentation and contrastive fine-tuning techniques to capture the deep semantic associations of long-tail items. Then, a dual-view modeling framework is designed to jointly model user preferences from both semantic and collaborative views. Finally, to promote deep interaction between semantic information and collaborative signals, a cross-attention mechanism is introduced to achieve multi-level information fusion across embedding layers, sequence layers, and prediction layers. Experimental results on Yelp, Amazon Fashion and Amazon Beauty datasets demonstrate that LLM-CFSR improves the overall recommendation performance and the long-tail item recommendation performance.
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Received: 29 September 2025
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| Fund:National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62266023,62466028), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province(No.20242BAB20045) |
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Corresponding Authors:
HUANG Qi, Ph.D., lecturer. His research interests include social network analysis, rumor detection, graph neural networks, natural language processing and information retrieval.
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| About author:: ZHA Longbao, Master student. His research interests include natural language processing and recommender systems.
WANG Mingwen, Ph.D., professor. His research interests include natural language processing, information extraction, information retrieval and data mining.
ZHOU Junxiang, Master student. His research interests include natural language processing and recommender systems.
LUO Wenbing, Ph.D., senior experimentalist. His research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval and knowledge graph. |
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