arXiv AI By Kathrin Wardatzky, Oana Inel, Luca Rossetto, Abraham Bernstein

The Utility of LLMs in Recommender Systems Explanation Evaluation

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The paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) can evaluate explanations in recommender systems. It generates 18 explanation prototypes and has 14 LLMs rate them, comparing the results to human ratings from a user study. Findings show that while LLMs mimic human rating patterns and correlate moderately with human judgments, their absolute agreement is low and varies with model size and evaluation design, leading to four practical recommendations for using LLMs in this context.

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