This is the official implementation of RecSys2023 paper "Uncovering ChatGPT's Capabilities in Recommender Systems". [arXiv]

Abstract: The debut of ChatGPT has recently attracted the attention of the natural language processing community and beyond. Existing studies have demonstrated that ChatGPT shows significant improvement in a range of downstream NLP tasks, but the capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT in terms of recommendations remain unclear. In this study, we aim to conduct an empirical analysis of ChatGPT's recommendation ability from an Information Retrieval (IR) perspective, including point-wise, pair-wise, and list-wise ranking. To achieve this goal, we re-formulate the above three recommendation policies into a domain-specific prompt format. Through extensive experiments on four datasets from different domains, we demonstrate that ChatGPT outperforms other large language models across all three ranking policies. Based on the analysis of unit cost improvements, we identify that ChatGPT with list-wise ranking achieves the best trade-off between cost and performance compared to point-wise and pair-wise ranking. Moreover, ChatGPT shows the potential for mitigating the cold start problem and explainable recommendation.

The overall evaluation framework of LLMs for recommendation tasks is depicted as follows:

The main result of different LLMs on four different domain datasets is presented as follows:

• For details of datasets, please check file data/readme.md.

• For details of related work & more experimental results, please check file assets/Supplemental_Material.pdf.

• For details of prompts, please check file assets/prompts.pdf.

• For details of original results, please download from here

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├── data  # * data path
│   ├── Book
│   ├── Movie
│   ├── Music
│   ├── News
│   └── preprocess  # * folder of jupyter notbooks for pre-processing original dataset
├── result  # * folder to save requests、responses、results、logs
├── script  # * folder to save scripts
└── src  # * source codes
    ├── api  # * codes to access api
    ├── postprocess  # * codes for data post-processing
    └── preprocess  # * codes for data pre-processing

0. Clone this repo.

   git clone https://github.com/rainym00d/LLM4RS.git
   

1. Download pre-processed data from here. And then put them into data folder. (If you want to use your own data, you can check the origin dataset link in data/readme.md and refer to our preprocess code in data/preprocess.)

2. Edit the parameters in the script/run.py according to your own needs. (This code can be executed in batches, just write the parameters into a list.)

3. Run python script/run.py in the root directory of the project.

4. Check the corresponding folder in the result directory and record the experimental results.

git clone https://github.com/rainym00d/LLM4RS.git

cd LLM4RS

# * You should fill in your own api-key in script/run.py before run this command.
python script/run.py 

- model

    - The model name of LLM.

    - Default: "text-davinci-003"

    - Option: ["text-davinci-002", "text-davinci-003", "gpt-3.5-turbo"]

- domain

    - The domain name.

    - Default: "Movie"

    - Option: ["Movie", "Book", "Music", "News"]

- task

    - The task name.

    - Default: "list"

    - Option: ["point", "pair", "list"]

- no_instruction

    - Use instruction or not.

    - Default: False

    - Option: [True, False]

- example_num

    - The number of example given to model.

    - Default: 1

    - Option: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

- begin_index

    - The begin index of data.

    - Default: 5

    - Option: the integer bigger than 4 but less than the size of data

- end_index

    - The end index of data.

    - Default: 505

    - Option: the integer bigger than `begin_index` but less than the size of data

- api_key

    - The api-key of openai which depends on your own openai account.

- max_requests_per_minute

    - Max request number per mins.

    - Default: 2000

    - Option: The max value depends on your own openai account.

- max_tokens_per_minute

    - Max token number per mins.

    - Default: 10000

    - Option: The max value depends on your own openai account.

- max_attempts

    - Max attempts per request.

    - Default: 10

- proxy

    - The proxy of your own.

    - Default: None

This repository has the following dependency requirements.

python==3.9
aiohttp==3.8.4
pandas==1.5.3
tiktoken==0.3.0
xpflow==0.8

The required packages can be installed via pip install -r requirements.txt.

If you find our code or work useful for your research, please cite our work.

@inproceedings{dai2023uncovering,
  title={Uncovering ChatGPT's Capabilities in Recommender Systems},
  author={Dai, Sunhao and Shao, Ninglu and Zhao, Haiyuan and Yu, Weijie and Si, Zihua and Xu, Chen and Sun, Zhongxiang and Zhang, Xiao and Xu, Jun},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems},
  year={2023}
}

If you have any problems, please feel free to contact us via Github issues. Thanks!