arXiv (Cornell University)
Towards Efficient and Effective Unlearning of Large Language Models for Recommendation
March 2024 • Hangyu Wang, Jianghao Lin, Bo Chen, Yang Yang, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
The significant advancements in large language models (LLMs) give rise to a promising research direction, i.e., leveraging LLMs as recommenders (LLMRec). The efficacy of LLMRec arises from the open-world knowledge and reasoning capabilities inherent in LLMs. LLMRec acquires the recommendation capabilities through instruction tuning based on user interaction data. However, in order to protect user privacy and optimize utility, it is also crucial for LLMRec to intentionally forget specific user data, which is genera…