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Bridging LLM Embeddings and VAE Parameters for Disentangled Recommendation

sigir26-013 · Full research paper · Nhu-Thuat Tran, Hady W. Lauw
Diffusion and Flow Recommenders · 50% Collaborative-Semantic Representatio · 25% Personalized LLM Adaptation · 25%
Abstract

Disentangled recommendation within the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework aims to capture multiple user interests. While effective, these VAEs are fundamentally constrained by their reliance on interaction data alone, lacking the rich external semantic knowledge needed to properly structure and separate latent interests. Meanwhile, Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at deriving profound user preference signals from textual data. Prevailing methods for integrating LLMs into recommendation, however, either focus on single-interest modeling or perform a shallow fusion by aligning LLM and VAE representation spaces. Thus, they fail to fundamentally shape the VAE's latent space for multi-interest learning, hindering recommendation performance. To bridge this gap, we propose to fundamentally shift the integration point: instead of aligning representation spaces, we bridge the LLM-generated embedding space directly to the VAE's parameter space. Our framework designs hypernetworks to generate parameters governing interest discovery of a disentangled VAE conditioned on LLM-derived user embeddings. This direct bridge injects rich semantic knowledge into the model's learning foundation, preserving the VAE's power for disentangled representation while dramatically enhancing its modeling capability with informative, LLM-structured priors. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets show that our method yields significant performance gains, unveiling the untapped potential of using LLMs for disentangled recommendation.

Assigned reviewers

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1 Yang Zhang 0072
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57 LLM Personalization: Foundations, Breakthroughs, and Frontiers (2026) User Profile and Persona Modeling
54 CoLLM: Integrating Collaborative Embeddings Into Large Language Models for Recommendation (2025) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment
2 Dan Luo 0004
43
68 Flow Matching Based Sequential Recommender Model (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
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40 Unbiased Learning-to-Rank Needs Unconfounded Propensity Estimation (2024) Unbiased Learning to Rank

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Maolin Wang 0001 52
Area-chair candidates (4)
Maolin Wang 0001 assigned 5215 papers
Pengyue Jia 4510 papers
Kun Gai 445 papers
Leyu Lin 4315 papers

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