GrocLM: Grocery Category Recommendation in E-Commerce with Large Language Models

Abstract

arXiv:2607.24764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of online grocery shopping requires recommendation systems that capture cyclical purchasing behavior and diverse user intents. Traditional item-level methods face scalability and accuracy challenges, motivating category-level recommendation as a more structured and practical alternative. We present GROCLM, a fine-tuned language model for grocery category recommendation in a real-world production environment. GROCLM employs a two-st