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Multimodal Item Scoring for Natural Language Recommendation via Gaussian Process Regression with LLM Relevance Judgments (2026.findings-acl)
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Yifan Simon Liu, Qianfeng Wen, Jiazhou Liang, Mark Zhao, Justin Cui, Anton Korikov, Armin Toroghi, Junyoung Kim, Scott Sanner
| Challenge: | Existing NLRec approaches use Dense Retrieval to compute item relevance scores . DR views the request as the sole relevance label, leading to a weak proxy for query relevance. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Gaussian Process Regression to model item relevance . they propose to combine LLM with a Gauss-based kernel to model multimodal relevance judging . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms simpler unimodal kernels and baseline methods by up to 65% on four NLRec datasets and two LLM backbones. |