Thought-Augmented Planning for LLM-Powered Interactive Recommender Agent

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Main Authors: Yu, Haocheng, Wu, Yaxiong, Wang, Hao, Guo, Wei, Liu, Yong, Li, Yawen, Ye, Yuyang, Du, Junping, Chen, Enhong
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author Yu, Haocheng
Wu, Yaxiong
Wang, Hao
Guo, Wei
Liu, Yong
Li, Yawen
Ye, Yuyang
Du, Junping
Chen, Enhong
author_facet Yu, Haocheng
Wu, Yaxiong
Wang, Hao
Guo, Wei
Liu, Yong
Li, Yawen
Ye, Yuyang
Du, Junping
Chen, Enhong
contents Interactive recommendation is a typical information-seeking task that allows users to interactively express their needs through natural language and obtain personalized recommendations. Large language model-powered (LLM-powered) agents have become a new paradigm in interactive recommendations, effectively capturing users' real-time needs and enhancing personalized experiences. However, due to limited planning and generalization capabilities, existing formulations of LLM-powered interactive recommender agents struggle to effectively address diverse and complex user intents, such as intuitive, unrefined, or occasionally ambiguous requests. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel thought-augmented interactive recommender agent system (TAIRA) that addresses complex user intents through distilled thought patterns. Specifically, TAIRA is designed as an LLM-powered multi-agent system featuring a manager agent that orchestrates recommendation tasks by decomposing user needs and planning subtasks, with its planning capacity strengthened through Thought Pattern Distillation (TPD), a thought-augmentation method that extracts high-level thoughts from the agent's and human experts' experiences. Moreover, we designed a set of user simulation schemes to generate personalized queries of different difficulties and evaluate the recommendations based on specific datasets. Through comprehensive experiments conducted across multiple datasets, TAIRA exhibits significantly enhanced performance compared to existing methods. Notably, TAIRA shows a greater advantage on more challenging tasks while generalizing effectively on novel tasks, further validating its superiority in managing complex user intents within interactive recommendation systems. The code is publicly available at:https://github.com/Alcein/TAIRA.
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spellingShingle Thought-Augmented Planning for LLM-Powered Interactive Recommender Agent
Yu, Haocheng
Wu, Yaxiong
Wang, Hao
Guo, Wei
Liu, Yong
Li, Yawen
Ye, Yuyang
Du, Junping
Chen, Enhong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Interactive recommendation is a typical information-seeking task that allows users to interactively express their needs through natural language and obtain personalized recommendations. Large language model-powered (LLM-powered) agents have become a new paradigm in interactive recommendations, effectively capturing users' real-time needs and enhancing personalized experiences. However, due to limited planning and generalization capabilities, existing formulations of LLM-powered interactive recommender agents struggle to effectively address diverse and complex user intents, such as intuitive, unrefined, or occasionally ambiguous requests. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel thought-augmented interactive recommender agent system (TAIRA) that addresses complex user intents through distilled thought patterns. Specifically, TAIRA is designed as an LLM-powered multi-agent system featuring a manager agent that orchestrates recommendation tasks by decomposing user needs and planning subtasks, with its planning capacity strengthened through Thought Pattern Distillation (TPD), a thought-augmentation method that extracts high-level thoughts from the agent's and human experts' experiences. Moreover, we designed a set of user simulation schemes to generate personalized queries of different difficulties and evaluate the recommendations based on specific datasets. Through comprehensive experiments conducted across multiple datasets, TAIRA exhibits significantly enhanced performance compared to existing methods. Notably, TAIRA shows a greater advantage on more challenging tasks while generalizing effectively on novel tasks, further validating its superiority in managing complex user intents within interactive recommendation systems. The code is publicly available at:https://github.com/Alcein/TAIRA.
title Thought-Augmented Planning for LLM-Powered Interactive Recommender Agent
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23485