iAgent: LLM Agent as a Shield between User and Recommender Systems
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| author | Xu, Wujiang Shi, Yunxiao Liang, Zujie Ning, Xuying Mei, Kai Wang, Kun Zhu, Xi Xu, Min Zhang, Yongfeng |
| author_facet | Xu, Wujiang Shi, Yunxiao Liang, Zujie Ning, Xuying Mei, Kai Wang, Kun Zhu, Xi Xu, Min Zhang, Yongfeng |
| contents | Traditional recommender systems usually take the user-platform paradigm, where users are directly exposed under the control of the platform's recommendation algorithms. However, the defect of recommendation algorithms may put users in very vulnerable positions under this paradigm. First, many sophisticated models are often designed with commercial objectives in mind, focusing on the platform's benefits, which may hinder their ability to protect and capture users' true interests. Second, these models are typically optimized using data from all users, which may overlook individual user's preferences. Due to these shortcomings, users may experience several disadvantages under the traditional user-platform direct exposure paradigm, such as lack of control over the recommender system, potential manipulation by the platform, echo chamber effects, or lack of personalization for less active users due to the dominance of active users during collaborative learning. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a new paradigm to protect user interests and alleviate these issues. Recently, some researchers have introduced LLM agents to simulate user behaviors, these approaches primarily aim to optimize platform-side performance, leaving core issues in recommender systems unresolved. To address these limitations, we propose a new user-agent-platform paradigm, where agent serves as the protective shield between user and recommender system that enables indirect exposure. |
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| spellingShingle | iAgent: LLM Agent as a Shield between User and Recommender Systems Xu, Wujiang Shi, Yunxiao Liang, Zujie Ning, Xuying Mei, Kai Wang, Kun Zhu, Xi Xu, Min Zhang, Yongfeng Computation and Language Information Retrieval Traditional recommender systems usually take the user-platform paradigm, where users are directly exposed under the control of the platform's recommendation algorithms. However, the defect of recommendation algorithms may put users in very vulnerable positions under this paradigm. First, many sophisticated models are often designed with commercial objectives in mind, focusing on the platform's benefits, which may hinder their ability to protect and capture users' true interests. Second, these models are typically optimized using data from all users, which may overlook individual user's preferences. Due to these shortcomings, users may experience several disadvantages under the traditional user-platform direct exposure paradigm, such as lack of control over the recommender system, potential manipulation by the platform, echo chamber effects, or lack of personalization for less active users due to the dominance of active users during collaborative learning. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a new paradigm to protect user interests and alleviate these issues. Recently, some researchers have introduced LLM agents to simulate user behaviors, these approaches primarily aim to optimize platform-side performance, leaving core issues in recommender systems unresolved. To address these limitations, we propose a new user-agent-platform paradigm, where agent serves as the protective shield between user and recommender system that enables indirect exposure. |
| title | iAgent: LLM Agent as a Shield between User and Recommender Systems |
| topic | Computation and Language Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14662 |