RuleAgent: Discovering Rules for Recommendation Denoising with Autonomous Language Agents

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Main Authors: Wang, Zongwei, Gao, Min, Yu, Junliang, Hou, Yupeng, Sadiq, Shazia, Yin, Hongzhi
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Published: 2025
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author Wang, Zongwei
Gao, Min
Yu, Junliang
Hou, Yupeng
Sadiq, Shazia
Yin, Hongzhi
author_facet Wang, Zongwei
Gao, Min
Yu, Junliang
Hou, Yupeng
Sadiq, Shazia
Yin, Hongzhi
contents The implicit feedback (e.g., clicks) in real-world recommender systems is often prone to severe noise caused by unintentional interactions, such as misclicks or curiosity-driven behavior. A common approach to denoising this feedback is manually crafting rules based on observations of training loss patterns. However, this approach is labor-intensive and the resulting rules often lack generalization across diverse scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we introduce RuleAgent, a language agent based framework which mimics real-world data experts to autonomously discover rules for recommendation denoising. Unlike the high-cost process of manual rule mining, RuleAgent offers rapid and dynamic rule discovery, ensuring adaptability to evolving data and varying scenarios. To achieve this, RuleAgent is equipped with tailored profile, memory, planning, and action modules and leverages reflection mechanisms to enhance its reasoning capabilities for rule discovery. Furthermore, to avoid the frequent retraining in rule discovery, we propose LossEraser-an unlearning strategy that streamlines training without compromising denoising performance. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that, compared with existing denoising methods, RuleAgent not only derives the optimal recommendation performance but also produces generalizable denoising rules, assisting researchers in efficient data cleaning.
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spellingShingle RuleAgent: Discovering Rules for Recommendation Denoising with Autonomous Language Agents
Wang, Zongwei
Gao, Min
Yu, Junliang
Hou, Yupeng
Sadiq, Shazia
Yin, Hongzhi
Information Retrieval
The implicit feedback (e.g., clicks) in real-world recommender systems is often prone to severe noise caused by unintentional interactions, such as misclicks or curiosity-driven behavior. A common approach to denoising this feedback is manually crafting rules based on observations of training loss patterns. However, this approach is labor-intensive and the resulting rules often lack generalization across diverse scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we introduce RuleAgent, a language agent based framework which mimics real-world data experts to autonomously discover rules for recommendation denoising. Unlike the high-cost process of manual rule mining, RuleAgent offers rapid and dynamic rule discovery, ensuring adaptability to evolving data and varying scenarios. To achieve this, RuleAgent is equipped with tailored profile, memory, planning, and action modules and leverages reflection mechanisms to enhance its reasoning capabilities for rule discovery. Furthermore, to avoid the frequent retraining in rule discovery, we propose LossEraser-an unlearning strategy that streamlines training without compromising denoising performance. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that, compared with existing denoising methods, RuleAgent not only derives the optimal recommendation performance but also produces generalizable denoising rules, assisting researchers in efficient data cleaning.
title RuleAgent: Discovering Rules for Recommendation Denoising with Autonomous Language Agents
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23374