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LLM recommendation systems sensitive to data preprocessing, study finds

Researchers have explored how different data preprocessing techniques impact the performance and demographic sensitivity of large language models (LLMs) used for recommendation systems. Their experiments on the MovieLens-1M dataset revealed that using original movie titles and employing a catalog-constrained pipeline significantly improved recommendation utility metrics like HR@10 and Coverage@10. While age balancing and knowledge enrichment reduced utility gaps without substantial utility loss, gender balancing decreased utility and did not improve evaluated gender-related indicators. The study emphasizes the need to jointly evaluate preprocessing choices for their effects on utility, output behavior, and demographic sensitivity. AI

IMPACT Highlights the importance of data preprocessing for LLM-based recommendation systems, impacting model performance and fairness.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing research findings on LLM recommendation systems. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLM recommendation systems sensitive to data preprocessing, study finds

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Sule Gunduz Oguducu ·

    Preprocessing Choices in Fine-Tuning Data Matter: Utility and Demographic Sensitivity in LLM-Based Recommendation

    Large language models (LLMs) have introduced a generative approach to recommendation, producing item lists from textual representations of user histories and item information. However, this generative setting raises challenges concerning output validity, prompt consistency, and s…