Summary of Usersumbench: a Benchmark Framework For Evaluating User Summarization Approaches, by Chao Wang et al.
UserSumBench: A Benchmark Framework for Evaluating User Summarization Approaches
by Chao Wang, Neo Wu, Lin Ning, Jiaxing Wu, Luyang Liu, Jun Xie, Shawn O’Banion, Bradley Green
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Large language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating user summaries from raw activity data, capturing essential user information like preferences and interests. These summaries are valuable for personalization applications like explainable recommender systems. However, the development of new summarization techniques is hindered by a lack of ground-truth labels, subjectivity of user summaries, and costly human evaluation. To address these challenges, we introduce UserSumBench, a benchmark framework designed to facilitate iterative development of LLM-based summarization approaches. The framework offers two key components: a reference-free summary quality metric, shown to be effective and aligned with human preferences across three diverse datasets (MovieLens, Yelp, and Amazon Review); and a novel robust summarization method that leverages time-hierarchical summarizer and self-critique verifier to produce high-quality summaries while eliminating hallucination. This method serves as a strong baseline for further innovation in summarization techniques. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to summarize user activity data has been found using large language models. These summaries help us understand what people like and dislike, which is important for making personalized recommendations. But there’s a problem – it’s hard to come up with new ways to do this because we don’t have any ground-truth labels, and it’s hard to figure out if the summaries are good or not. To solve these problems, researchers created a special tool called UserSumBench that makes it easier to develop and test new summarization methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hallucination » Summarization
