arXiv:2607. 24845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been applied to sequential recommendation by formulating it as a natural language task.
By Harshini Kavuru, Dwipam Katariya, Giri Iyengar, Pranab Mohanty, Kalanand Mishra, Kalanand Mishra
arXiv:2606. 03866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling recommender systems via large language models (LLMs) has become a prominent trend in the industry.
By Yuecheng Li, Zeyu Song, Jing Yao, Chi Lu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
The paper presents a pipeline for generating multi‑turn synthetic conversations and a self‑improvement loop that uses variance‑based contrastive optimization and a coding agent to refine planning and tool‑use in conversational recommendation agents. This approach improves agent quality by 8% over a manually optimized prompt and has been deployed at Spotify, where it accelerated development cycles. In production, the system achieved a 14% increase in user listening, a 5% rise in weekly active users, and a 5% reduction in skip rate compared to a prior session‑only experience.
By Enrico Palumbo, Alexandre Tamborrino, Victor Ode, Ben Lacker, Adri\`a Casas Escoda, Jeremy Hopple, Marcus Better, James Leoni, Hugo Galv\~ao, Hugues Bouchard, Mounia Lalmas, Jos\'e Luis Redondo Garc\'ia, Abenezer Abebe, Ann Clifton, Anton Blomberg, Henrik Lindstr\"om, Dani Doro, Christine Doig Cardet
arXiv:2603.01590v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Content-driven platforms such as Xiaohongshu often leverage click-through rate (CTR) prediction models for recommendation. However, these mod...
By Yubin Zhang, Haiming Xu, Guillaume Salha-Galvan, Ruiyan Han, Feiyang Xiao, Yanhua Huang, Li Lin, Yang Luo, Yao Hu
The paper introduces ONLINE LLM PICKER, a framework for active model selection of large language models in streaming settings. It selects the most informative prompts for annotation within a limited budget, enabling the identification of the best or near‑best model among many candidates. Experiments on 10 datasets and over 130 language models show up to 71.67% savings in annotation cost and a reduction in regret by up to 2.51× when using the chosen model for sequential generation.
By Alessandro Turrin, Patrik Okanovic, Torsten Hoefler, Nezihe Merve G\"urel
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.