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Filling the Gaps: Selective Knowledge Augmentation for LLM Recommenders

sigir26-132 · Full research paper · Jaehyun Lee, Sanghwan Jang, SeongKu Kang, Hwanjo Yu
LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion · 100%
Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful training-free recommenders. However, their knowledge of individual items is inevitably uneven due to imbalanced information exposure during pretraining, a phenomenon we refer to as knowledge gap problem. To address this, most prior methods have employed a naive uniform augmentation that appends external information for every item in the input prompt. However, this approach not only wastes limited context budget on redundant augmentation for well-known items but can also hinder the model's effective reasoning. To this end, we propose KnowSACKP(Knowledge-aware Selective Augmentation with Comparative Knowledge Probing) to mitigate the knowledge gap problem. KnowSACKP estimates the LLM's internal knowledge by evaluating its capability to capture collaborative relationships and selectively injects additional information only where it is most needed. By avoiding unnecessary augmentation for well-known items, KnowSACKP focuses on items that benefit most from knowledge supplementation, thereby making more effective use of the context budget. KnowSACKP requires no fine-tuning step, and consistently improves both recommendation accuracy and context efficiency across four real-world datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/nowhyun/KnowSA_CKP.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Huifeng Guo
48
100 SELF: Surrogate-light Feature Selection with Large Language Models in Deep Recommender Systems (2025) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion
65 LLM4Tag: Automatic Tagging System for Information Retrieval via Large Language Models (2025) Domain-Specific and Structured Retrieval
56 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
2 Xiao Zhang 0034
45
77 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
54 MoRE: A Mixture of Reflectors Framework for Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
48 Test-Time Alignment with State Space Model for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Pengyue Jia 45
Area-chair candidates (8)
Pengyue Jia assigned 4510 papers
Jun Xu 0001 422 papers
Maolin Wang 0001 4215 papers
Yanan Niu 4215 papers
Kun Gai 415 papers
Leyu Lin 4115 papers
Weiming Liu 0005 408 papers
Xiaoxue Zang 404 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Bo Chen 0023 52 3
67 Towards Open-World Recommendation with Knowledge Augmentation from Large Language Models (2024) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
67 Efficient and Deployable Knowledge Infusion for Open-World Recommendations via Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
2 Zhengyi Yang 0007 50 3
56 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
54 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
3 Yang Zhang 0072 48 3
57 Preliminary Study on Incremental Learning for Large Language Model-based Recommender Systems (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
56 Decoding Matters: Addressing Amplification Bias and Homogeneity Issue in Recommendations for Large Language Models (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
4 Chongming Gao 48 3
55 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
55 MGFRec: Towards Reinforced Reasoning Recommendation with Multiple Groundings and Feedback (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
5 Huifeng Guo assigned 48 3
100 SELF: Surrogate-light Feature Selection with Large Language Models in Deep Recommender Systems (2025) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion
65 LLM4Tag: Automatic Tagging System for Information Retrieval via Large Language Models (2025) Domain-Specific and Structured Retrieval
6 Bowen Zheng 0005 47 3
58 Autonomous Reasoning-Retrieval for Large Language Model Based Recommendation (2025) Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval and Ranking
52 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
7 Jizhi Zhang 46 3
57 Navigating Large Language Models for Recommendation: From Architecture to Learning Paradigms and Deployment (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
56 Decoding Matters: Addressing Amplification Bias and Homogeneity Issue in Recommendations for Large Language Models (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
8 Jianling Wang 46 3
65 Fresh Content Recommendation at Scale: A Multi-funnel Solution and the Potential of LLMs (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
49 A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists (2019) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
9 Jieming Zhu 45 3
78 Towards Open-World Recommendation with Knowledge Augmentation from Large Language Models (2024) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
67 Efficient and Deployable Knowledge Infusion for Open-World Recommendations via Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
10 Xiao Zhang 0034 assigned 45 3
77 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
54 MoRE: A Mixture of Reflectors Framework for Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
11 Bo Peng 0009 45 3
57 eCeLLM: Generalizing Large Language Models for E-commerce from Large-scale, High-quality Instruction Data (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
49 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
13 Shuchang Liu 0001 43 3
54 Recommendation as Language Processing (RLP): A Unified Pretrain, Personalized Prompt & Predict Paradigm (P5) (2022) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
51 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
14 Fei Sun 0001 43 3
48 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
47 Neural Re-ranking in Multi-stage Recommender Systems: A Review (2022) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
15 Jiancan Wu 43 3
54 AlphaDPO: Adaptive Reward Margin for Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
54 Towards Robust Alignment of Language Models: Distributionally Robustifying Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
16 Junjie Zhang 0009 43 3
57 Tapping the Potential of Large Language Models as Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Framework and Empirical Analysis (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
57 Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Rankers for Recommender Systems (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
17 Yang Song 0008 43 3
58 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) LLM-Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
48 LabelCraft: Empowering Short Video Recommendations with Automated Label Crafting (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
18 Wei Wei 0027 42 3
67 GraphGPT: Graph Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models (2024) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning
67 HiGPT: Heterogeneous Graph Language Model (2024) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning
19 Hao Liu 0078 42 3
52 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
41 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
20 Han Li 0005 42 3
52 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
50 LEARN: Knowledge Adaptation from Large Language Model to Recommendation for Practical Industrial Application (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
21 Yupeng Hou 42 3
54 Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Rankers for Recommender Systems (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
51 Recommendation as Instruction Following: A Large Language Model Empowered Recommendation Approach (2025) Personalized LLM Adaptation
22 Wei Guo 0006 42 3
54 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
48 Dataset Regeneration for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
26 Lantao Hu 41 3
47 Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
47 Unsupervised Ranking Ensemble Model for Recommendation (2024) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
27 Junwei Pan 41 3
55 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
50 Incremental Learning for LLM-based Tokenization and Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
31 Chunyang Wang 0001 40 3
47 MESA: Plugin Meta-Modulation for Transformer-Based Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation (2026) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
45 Adaptive Continual Learning with User-Incremental Forward Compatibility for Meta-Augmented Cold-Start Recommenders (2026) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
32 Lianghao Xia 40 3
77 RecLM: Recommendation Instruction Tuning (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
44 Representation Learning with Large Language Models for Recommendation (2024) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment
34 Seongmin Park 0002 40 3
49 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
48 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
35 Ed H. Chi 40 3
52 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
49 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
36 Qijiong Liu 40 3
75 ONCE: Boosting Content-based Recommendation with Both Open- and Closed-source Large Language Models (2024) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion
53 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
37 James Caverlee 40 3
64 Language Models as Semantic Augmenters for Sequential Recommenders (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
47 Recommendation for New Users and New Items via Randomized Training and Mixture-of-Experts Transformation (2020) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation
38 Chen Wang 0052 40 3
55 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
46 Sequential Recommendation with Auxiliary Item Relationships via Multi-Relational Transformer (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation