CRAMER: Control via Request-Aware Masking for Editing Recommenders
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arXiv:2608.25370v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation models, while powerful, have limited flexibility in responding to immediate user requests, making it difficult to adapt their recommendations to the user's timely interests. Unfortunately, existing user request adaptation methods often incur high computational overhead due to either 1) retraining the entire backbone network or 2) leveraging the inference ability of large language models (a.k.a. prompt engineering), limiting their applicability in large-scale recommendation services. This paper presents Control
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.25370v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation models, while powerful, have limited flexibility in responding to immediate user requests, making it difficult to adapt their recommendations to the user's timely interests.
- Unfortunately, existing user request adaptation methods often incur high computational overhead due to either 1) retraining the entire backbone network or 2) leveraging the inference ability of large language models (a.k.a.
- prompt engineering), limiting their applicability in large-scale recommendation services.
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