Papers by Wooseong Yang
LLMInit: A Free Lunch from Large Language Models for Selective Initialization of Recommendation (2025.emnlp-industry)
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Weizhi Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Wooseong Yang, Henry Peng Zou, Yuqing Liu, Ke Xu, Sourav Medya, Philip S. Yu
| Challenge: | Existing algorithms for collaborative filtering are limited by their computational demands and latency. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to integrate pre-trained LLM embeddings into CF models through selective initialization strategies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves recommendation performance while maintaining low computational costs. |