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LLMs enhanced for recommender systems with soft-token fusion · 2 sources tracked

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Researchers have developed a new framework called soft-token fusion to integrate numerical and embedding features into Large Language Models (LLMs) for recommender systems. This approach addresses the limitation of current LLM-based recommenders that primarily process discrete textual tokens, enabling them to better utilize continuous and dense features. Experiments on Amazon recommendation benchmarks demonstrated that this method improves retrieval performance compared to existing LLM baselines, with an interaction-based fusion module proving more effective than simple concatenation. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM capabilities in recommender systems by enabling better integration of diverse data types.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new method for LLMs in recommender systems.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhe Xu, Ankit Peshin, Chiyu Zhang, Feng Qi, Johnson Lui, Anil Ramakrishna, Justin Johnson, Carl Hu, Kaushik Rangadurai, Luke Simon ·

    Tokenizing Numerical and Embedding Features for LLM RecSys

    arXiv:2607.10016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as backbone architectures for recommender systems because of their strong sequence modeling and representation learning capabilities. However, most LLM-based recommenders operate …

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Luke Simon ·

    Tokenizing Numerical and Embedding Features for LLM RecSys

    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as backbone architectures for recommender systems because of their strong sequence modeling and representation learning capabilities. However, most LLM-based recommenders operate primarily on discrete textual tokens, whereas prac…

  3. Medium — Claude tag TIER_1 English(EN) · MD Soyeb Hoque ·

    Converting Tokens into Token IDs: The First Numerical Representation Inside an LLM

    <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/@workemailsoyeb/converting-tokens-into-token-ids-the-first-numerical-representation-inside-an-llm-6a48f3aba2fc?source=rss------claude-5"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/960/1*TmH_…

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