arXiv Machine Learning

CRAMER: Control via Request-Aware Masking for Editing Recommenders

CRAMER is a framework that enables sequential recommendation models to adapt instantly to user requests by treating natural‑language requests as control signals and applying request‑aware masking to frozen backbone parameters. This approach avoids costly retraining or large language model inference, achieving minimal overhead. Experiments on large‑scale benchmarks demonstrate that CRAMER outperforms four state‑of‑the‑art request‑aware baselines while offering enhanced controllability and cross‑domain adaptability.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

RecRec: Recursive Refinement for Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2607. 10541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommender systems typically infer user preferences through single-pass encoding of interaction histories without iterative refinement, relying on increasingly deep architectures to capture complex patterns.

By Pervez Shaik, Prosenjit Biswas, Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar
arXiv AI
2d ago

RPCBench: A Benchmark for Proactive Premise Critique in LLM-based Recommendation

RPCBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate large language models’ ability to critique recommendation requests by detecting, diagnosing, and handling flawed premises. It includes evidence‑grounded test instances across five recommendation domains and ten types of premise failures, and introduces a fine‑grained evaluation framework covering detection, error localization, handling strategy, and evidence faithfulness. Experiments with 11 LLMs reveal that proactive detection is the main bottleneck, with models struggling most on underspecified‑premise errors and showing that optimal critique quality occurs at intermediate reasoning lengths.

By Zhongru Chen, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Personalized Recommendation Tool Learning via Autonomous Language Agents

arXiv:2607. 19739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although large language models (LLMs) have recently gained traction in recommender systems due to their strong reasoning capabilities and extensive world knowledge, previous LLM-based agents suffer from hallucination and context-length limitations, and thus are not suitable for full-ranking recommendation tasks.

By Mingdai Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Weizhi Zhang, Yibo Wang, Hao Peng, Philip Yu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Personalized Recommendation Tool Learning via Autonomous Language Agents

Although large language models (LLMs) have recently gained traction in recommender systems due to their strong reasoning capabilities and extensive world knowledge, previous LLM-based agents suffer from hallucination and context-length limitations, and thus are not suitable for full-ranking recommendation tasks. To circumvent these limitations through architectural design rather than modifying the LLM itself, we propose an agent-based recommendation framework, memory-based $\textbf{P}$ersonalized $\textbf{R}$ecommendation $\textbf{T}$ool learning via autonomous language $\textbf{A}$gents (PRTA), in which an LLM acts as a central planner interacting with multiple recommendation models as tools.