Generating personalized reviews in recommendation systems is an area of growing interest, particularly in creating personalized reviews based on users’ historical interactions and preferences. This involves using data about users’ past purchases and feedback to generate reviews that accurately reflect their unique preferences and experiences, thereby improving the overall effectiveness of recommendation systems.
Recent research addresses the challenge of generating personalized reviews that match users’ experiences and preferences. Many users only provide ratings without detailed reviews after making purchases, which makes it difficult to capture the details of users’ satisfaction and dissatisfaction. This gap in detailed feedback requires innovative methods to ensure that the reviews generated are personalized and reflect users’ genuine feelings.
Existing methods for review generation typically employ encoder-decoder neural networks. These methods typically leverage discrete attributes such as user and article IDs and ratings to generate reviews. More recent approaches have incorporated textual information from article titles and historical reviews to improve the quality of generated reviews. For example, models such as ExpansionNet and RevGAN have been developed to integrate phrasal information from article titles and sentiment labels into the review generation process, thereby improving the relevance and personalization of the reviews produced.
Researchers from Tianjin University and Du Xiaoman Financial have introduced a new framework called Review-LLMdesigned to leverage the capabilities of LLMs such as Llama-3. This framework aggregates historical user behaviors, including article titles and corresponding reviews, to construct input cues that capture users’ interest characteristics and review writing styles. The research team has developed this approach to improve the personalization of generated reviews.
The Review-LLM framework employs a supervised fine-tuning approach, where the input message includes the user’s historical interactions, item titles, reviews, and ratings. This comprehensive input enables the LLM to better understand user preferences and generate more accurate and personalized reviews. The fine-tuning process involves tailoring the LLM to generate reviews based on user-specific information. For example, the model reconstructs the input by adding the user’s behavior sequence, including item titles and corresponding reviews, to enable the model to learn user interest characteristics and review writing styles from semantically rich text information. Incorporating the user’s rating of the item into the message helps the model understand the user’s satisfaction level.
The performance of Review-LLM was evaluated using several metrics, including ROUGE-1, ROUGE-L, and BertScore. The experimental results demonstrated that the improved model outperformed existing models, including GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o, in generating personalized reviews. For example, Review-LLM achieved a ROUGE-1 score of 31.15 and a ROUGE-L score of 26.88, compared to GPT-3.5-Turbo’s scores of 17.62 and 10.70, respectively. The model’s ability to generate negative reviews when users were dissatisfied was particularly notable. The human evaluation component of the study, which involved 10 PhD students familiar with review/text generation, further confirmed the model’s effectiveness. The percentage of generated reviews marked as semantically similar to the reference reviews was significantly higher for Review-LLM compared to the reference models.
The Review-LLM framework effectively leverages LLMs to generate personalized reviews by incorporating users’ historical behaviors and ratings. This approach addresses the challenge of creating reviews that reflect users’ unique preferences and experiences, improving the overall accuracy and relevance of review generation in recommender systems. Research indicates that by fine-tuning LLMs with comprehensive input cues including user interactions, item titles, reviews, and ratings, personalized reviews can be generated that are more closely aligned with users’ true sentiments.
In conclusion, the Review-LLM framework produces highly personalized reviews that accurately reflect users’ preferences and experiences by aggregating detailed historical user data and employing sophisticated fine-tuning techniques. This research demonstrates the potential of LLMs to significantly improve the quality and personalization of reviews in recommender systems, addressing the existing challenge of generating meaningful and user-specific reviews. Experimental results, including notable performance metrics and human evaluation results, underline the effectiveness of the Review-LLM approach.
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