Verbalizing LightGCN: Direct Learning of Textual Representations from User-Item Interaction Graph via LLMs.

@inproceedings{huu-2026-verbalizing, author = {Manh-Khanh Ngo Huu and Hady W. Lauw}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Verbalizing LightGCN: Direct Learning of Textual Representations from User-Item Interaction Graph via LLMs}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {1393--1403}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809621}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809621} }