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Beyond Semantic Understanding: Preserving Collaborative Frequency Components in LLM-based Recommendation

arXiv:2508.10312v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recommender systems in concert with Large Language Models (LLMs) present promising avenues for generating semantically-informed recommendations. However, LLM-based recommenders exhibit a tendency to overemphasize semantic correlations within users' interaction history. When taking pretrained collaborative ID embeddings as input, LLM-based recommenders progressively weaken the inherent collaborative signals as the embeddings propagate...