arXiv Computation and Language

LLMAR: A Tuning-Free Recommendation Framework for Sparse and Text-Rich Industrial Domains

LLMAR is a tuning‑free recommendation framework designed for sparse, text‑rich industrial B2B domains. It transforms user behavioral history into structured semantic motives using LLM inference, employs a reflection loop to self‑correct hallucinations, and operates cost‑effectively with asynchronous batch processing. Experiments on MovieLens‑1M, Amazon Prime Pantry, and a construction risk dataset show LLMAR surpasses state‑of‑the‑art learning models, achieving up to a 54.6% nDCG@10 improvement while keeping inference costs around $1 per 1,000 users.

arXiv AI
Jul 31

WhisperRec: Latent Reasoning for Efficient Foundation Recommendation Models

arXiv:2607. 26621v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, motivating their adoption as backbones for foundation recommendation models (FRMs).

By Hao Jiang, Peiru Du, Pengfei Yao, Mengting Li, Siyuan Lou, Kuo Cai, Sheng Yu, Qiang Luo, Jian Liang, Ruiming Tang, Fei Pan, Peng Jiang, Wenwu Ou
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

Towards Efficient Reasoning in LLM-Based Recommender Systems via Model Merging

Large language model-based recommender systems are increasingly adopting slow-thinking models that generate step-by-step reasoning before making predictions, often achieving higher accuracy than fast-thinking models that predict directly. However, their reasoning traces are often unnecessarily verbose, increasing inference costs without commensurate accuracy gains.

arXiv AI
4d ago

Safety as a Constraint: Fine-Tuning a LLM Recommender to Explain Itself

The paper presents a method for fine‑tuning a large language model (LLM) recommender to generate personalized, non‑harmful explanations for its recommendations. By training two LLM‑judge reward models and using constrained GRPO, the authors achieve a significant increase in the PASS rate for all three criteria, from 0.649 to 0.956 on their own judges and from 0.677 to 0.931 on an independent judge. The fine‑tuned model maintains its original recommendation performance, demonstrating that LLM‑based recommenders can be adapted to complex tasks without loss of effectiveness.

By Jiashu He, Emma Yanyang Kong, JJ Tan, David Fagnan
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Generative Reasoning Re-ranker

arXiv:2602. 07774v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies increasingly explore Large Language Models (LLMs) as a new paradigm for recommendation systems due to their scalability and world knowledge.

By Mingfu Liang, Yufei Li, Jay Xu, Kavosh Asadi, Xi Liu, Shuo Gu, Kaushik Rangadurai, Frank Shyu, Shuaiwen Wang, Song Yang, Zhijing Li, Jiang Liu, Mengying Sun, Fei Tian, Xiaohan Wei, Chonglin Sun, Jacob Tao, Shike Mei, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Sandeep Pandey, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon
arXiv AI
Jul 1

GR2 Technical Report

arXiv:2606. 31984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial recommendation systems serve billions of users through a multi-stage funnel -- retrieval, early-stage ranking, and re-ranking -- where the final re-ranking step disproportionately shapes user engagement and downstream performance, particularly for carousel and grid display formats.

By Yufei Li (Yongkang), Zaiwei Zhang (Yongkang), Mingfu Liang (Yongkang), Kavosh Asadi (Yongkang), Jay Xu (Yongkang), Jimmy Kim (Yongkang), Chongyang Bai (Yongkang), Jieyi Zhang (Yongkang), Hongye Xie (Yongkang), Prachi Agrawal (Yongkang), Dian Yu (Yongkang), Tianyi Chen (Yongkang), Jean-Pascal Billaud (Yongkang), Garret Buell (Yongkang), YK (Yongkang), Zhu (Yang), Sachin Patil (Yang), Brooke Bian (Yang), Zhou Fang (Yang), Kevin Huang (Yang), Shiva Sudanagunta (Yang), Yuzhen Huang (Yang), Emma Lu (Yang), Chris O'Brien (Yang), Yang Song (Yang), Lihong Li (Yang), Jacob Tao (Yang), Zhicheng Zhu (Yang), Chao Li (Yang), Gaoxiang Liu (Yang), Neil Wu (Yang), Zhongyin Hu (Yang), Li Han (Yang), Loki Chen (Yang), Ming Lei (Yang), Greg Rehm (Yang), Siyuan Song (Yang), Tianwei Zhang (Yang), Li Li (Yang), Ketan Singh (Yang), Yavuz Yetim (Yang), Ilyas Atishev (Yang), Satendra Gera (Yang), Ashkan Sadeghi (Yang), Rachel Yan (Yang), Nikko Mizutani (Yang), Shuaiwen Wang (Yang), Song Yang (Yang), Zhijing Li (Yang), Jiang Liu (Yang), Mengying Sun (Yang), Fei Tian (Yang), Xiaohan Wei (Yang), Chonglin Sun (Yang), Parish Aggarwal (Yang), Kaushik Rangadurai (Yang), Zhi Hua (Yang), Frank Shyu (Yang), Ruchit Sharma (Yang), Liyuan Li (Yang), Shike Mei (Yang), Wenlin Chen (Yang), Santanu Kolay (Yang), Ben Schulte (Yang), Deepak Chandra (Yang), Adam (Yang), Song, Sandeep Pandey, Xi Liu, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon