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arxiv: 2505.17682 · v2 · submitted 2025-05-23 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI

Tuning Language Models for Robust Prediction of Diverse User Behaviors

Fanjin Meng , Jingtao Ding , Jiahui Gong , Chen Yang , Hong Chen , Zuojian Wang , Haisheng Lu , Yong Li This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CL cs.AI
keywords user behavior predictionlarge language modelsfine-tuninglong-tailed behaviorsanchor behaviorstail behaviorsfew-shot learning
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BehaviorLM's two-stage fine-tuning lets LLMs predict both common and rare user behaviors without overfitting.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper argues that standard fine-tuning of large language models for user behavior prediction causes them to overfit to frequent anchor behaviors and lose ground on uncommon tail behaviors. BehaviorLM counters this with a first stage that tunes only on anchors while keeping general knowledge intact, then a second stage that retrains on a difficulty-balanced mix of all behaviors. This setup is meant to let the models draw on their pre-trained behavioral knowledge so they can handle tail behaviors well even with few examples. A reader would care because real-world assistants need to serve the full range of user actions, not just the popular ones.

Core claim

BehaviorLM is a progressive fine-tuning method in which LLMs are first tuned on anchor behaviors to retain general behavioral knowledge and then tuned on a balanced subset of behaviors chosen according to sample difficulty; this process yields robust prediction of both anchor and tail behaviors and allows effective few-shot mastery of tail behaviors by leveraging the LLM's pre-trained knowledge, as shown on two real-world datasets.

What carries the argument

BehaviorLM, the two-stage progressive fine-tuning process that first anchors on frequent behaviors and then balances the full set by sample difficulty.

If this is right

  • Anchor behavior predictions stay strong while tail predictions improve.
  • LLMs can master tail behaviors with few-shot examples by drawing on pre-trained knowledge.
  • The method applies to real-world user behavior datasets without sacrificing common-case performance.
  • Difficulty-based balancing avoids the overfitting typical of standard fine-tuning on imbalanced data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same staged balancing could extend to other long-tailed tasks such as rare-event detection in recommendation systems.
  • If difficulty selection proves robust, it might reduce reliance on manually curated balanced training sets for domain adaptation of LLMs.
  • Testing the approach on additional datasets with different tail distributions would show whether the gains hold beyond the reported cases.

Load-bearing premise

Selecting a balanced subset by sample difficulty improves tail predictions without harming anchor performance or creating new overfitting or selection problems.

What would settle it

If experiments on the two real-world datasets show that tail behavior accuracy fails to improve or anchor accuracy drops after the balanced second stage, the benefit of the progressive approach would be disproved.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2505.17682 by Chen Yang, Fanjin Meng, Haisheng Lu, Hong Chen, Jiahui Gong, Jingtao Ding, Yong Li, Zuojian Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Empirical distribution of user behaviors in the Behavior dataset: "Anchor Behaviors" occur more than 1% of the time, while [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The BehaviorLM framework, with a progressive fine-tuning approach [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The effect of behavioral knowledge under different model size (1.5B, 8B, 70B), in terms of performance robustness across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison between BehaviorLM and a non-LLM transformer-based method under different sizes of training data. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Performance comparison between fine-tuning on all behaviors, anchor behaviors and tail behaviors. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Detailed statistics of the Behavior Dataset. The behaviors are categorized into (a) high, (b) medium, and (c) low frequencies [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_6.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Predicting user behavior is essential for intelligent assistant services, yet deep learning models often struggle to capture long-tailed behaviors. Large language models (LLMs), with their pretraining on vast corpora containing rich behavioral knowledge, offer promise. However, existing fine-tuning approaches tend to overfit to frequent ``anchor'' behaviors, reducing their ability to predict less common ``tail'' behaviors. In this paper, we introduce BehaviorLM, a progressive fine-tuning approach that addresses this issue. In the first stage, LLMs are fine-tuned on anchor behaviors while preserving general behavioral knowledge. In the second stage, fine-tuning uses a balanced subset of all behaviors based on sample difficulty to improve tail behavior predictions without sacrificing anchor performance. Experimental results on two real-world datasets demonstrate that BehaviorLM robustly predicts both anchor and tail behaviors and effectively leverages LLM behavioral knowledge to master tail behavior prediction with few-shot examples.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces BehaviorLM, a two-stage progressive fine-tuning method for LLMs to predict user behaviors in long-tailed distributions. Stage 1 fine-tunes on frequent anchor behaviors while preserving general knowledge; Stage 2 fine-tunes on a balanced subset of behaviors selected by sample difficulty to boost tail behavior prediction without degrading anchor performance. The authors claim that experiments on two real-world datasets show robust prediction of both anchor and tail behaviors, along with effective leveraging of LLM behavioral knowledge for few-shot tail prediction.

Significance. If the central claims hold under rigorous controls, the work could meaningfully advance LLM adaptation for imbalanced behavioral prediction tasks relevant to intelligent assistants. It offers a practical progressive schedule that attempts to retain pre-trained knowledge while addressing overfitting to frequent behaviors, with potential for broader application in long-tailed NLP settings.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Stage 2 fine-tuning and balanced subset construction): The description of how sample difficulty is computed is insufficient to establish independence from the anchor/tail distinction. If difficulty derives from stage-1 model loss or entropy, it will be systematically higher for tail items by construction, so the balancing step risks simply re-weighting toward already-hard examples rather than equalizing the distribution. This directly threatens the load-bearing claim that the schedule improves tail performance while leaving anchor performance intact. Explicit ablations (random balanced subset, frequency-stratified subset, or difficulty from a held-out model) are required.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experimental results): No quantitative metrics, baselines, error bars, or details on balanced-subset construction and difficulty scoring appear in the reported results. Without these, the positive claims on two datasets cannot be evaluated for robustness or compared to standard fine-tuning or other long-tail methods.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The summary of results would be strengthened by including at least one key quantitative finding (e.g., accuracy delta on tail behaviors) rather than qualitative statements alone.
  2. [§2] Notation: The terms 'anchor' and 'tail' behaviors are used without an explicit frequency threshold or percentile definition; adding this in §2 would improve reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the suggested improvements where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Stage 2 fine-tuning and balanced subset construction): The description of how sample difficulty is computed is insufficient to establish independence from the anchor/tail distinction. If difficulty derives from stage-1 model loss or entropy, it will be systematically higher for tail items by construction, so the balancing step risks simply re-weighting toward already-hard examples rather than equalizing the distribution. This directly threatens the load-bearing claim that the schedule improves tail performance while leaving anchor performance intact. Explicit ablations (random balanced subset, frequency-stratified subset, or difficulty from a held-out model) are required.

    Authors: We agree that the current description of sample difficulty computation in §3.2 requires clarification to demonstrate independence from the anchor/tail distinction. In the revised manuscript, we will expand this section with a precise, formal definition of the difficulty metric and its computation procedure. To directly address the potential bias concern, we will also add the requested ablations: (1) a random balanced subset, (2) a frequency-stratified subset, and (3) difficulty scores computed from a held-out model. These additional experiments will allow us to show whether the observed gains in tail performance stem from the progressive schedule itself rather than from inadvertently selecting harder examples. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experimental results): No quantitative metrics, baselines, error bars, or details on balanced-subset construction and difficulty scoring appear in the reported results. Without these, the positive claims on two datasets cannot be evaluated for robustness or compared to standard fine-tuning or other long-tail methods.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the experimental results section would benefit from more complete quantitative reporting. In the revised manuscript, we will augment §4 with explicit quantitative metrics (including accuracy, macro-F1, and per-category performance for anchor versus tail behaviors), comparisons to standard fine-tuning as well as other long-tail adaptation baselines, error bars computed over multiple random seeds, and expanded details on balanced-subset construction and the difficulty scoring method. These additions will enable readers to assess robustness and facilitate direct comparisons. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical two-stage method validated externally

full rationale

The paper describes a procedural fine-tuning schedule (stage 1 on anchors, stage 2 on difficulty-balanced subset) and reports experimental results on two real-world datasets. No equations, predictions, or uniqueness claims reduce by construction to fitted parameters or self-citations. The central claims rest on observed performance metrics rather than internal redefinitions or self-referential derivations. This is a standard empirical ML paper whose validity is testable against held-out data.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that pretrained LLMs already encode useful behavioral knowledge and that sample difficulty provides a reliable signal for balancing without introducing bias. No free parameters or invented entities are described in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption LLMs pretrained on vast corpora contain rich behavioral knowledge that can be preserved during fine-tuning on anchor behaviors
    Explicitly invoked in the abstract as the reason LLMs offer promise for this task.

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