Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong semantic understanding and preference reasoning capabilities, offering new opportunities for user modeling in recommender systems. Existing LLM-as-Enhancer methods typically distill LLM-derived preference knowledge into lightweight recommenders to avoid costly online LLM infe...
Agentic recommender systems use large language models to maintain semantic memory and support evidence-aware recommendation. However, existing memory mechanisms often compress user and item information into coarse summaries and connect them with scalar collaborative links, making it difficult to preserve fine-grained p...
Pei-Yu Hu, Wei-Hai Lu, Si-Ying Gu et al.· 0 citations
To further optimize the reasoning trajectory, HiLaR combines final recommendation feedback with layer-aware process rewards derived from the marginal target-likelihood gain of each state, and generally outperforms strong sequential, generative, and LLM-based recommendation baselines.
Pei-Yu Hu, Si-Ying Gu, Wei-Hai Lu et al.· arXiv.org· 1 citation
I Reasoning via Multi-Teacher Distillation is proposed, a novel framework that 'compiles' the reasoning abilities of large teacher LLMs into a lightweight student Small Language Model (SLM), which significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both recommendation accuracy and inference efficiency.
