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author Yi, Chao
Chen, Dian
Guo, Gaoyang
Tang, Jiakai
Wu, Jian
Yu, Jing
Zhang, Mao
Dai, Sunhao
Chen, Wen
Yang, Wenjun
Jiang, Yuning
Gao, Zhujin
Zheng, Bo
Li, Chi
Wang, Dimin
Wang, Dixuan
Li, Fan
Zhang, Fan
Chen, Haibin
Liu, Haozhuang
Zhu, Jialin
Wang, Jiamang
Wu, Jiawei
Cui, Jin
Huang, Ju
Zhang, Kai
Liu, Kan
Tian, Lang
Rao, Liang
Li, Longbin
Zhao, Lulu
He, Na
Wang, Peiyang
Huang, Qiqi
Luo, Tao
Su, Wenbo
He, Xiaoxiao
Tong, Xin
Chen, Xu
Xi, Xunke
Li, Yang
Wu, Yaxuan
Yang, Yeqiu
Hu, Yi
Song, Yinnan
Li, Yuchen
Luo, Yujie
Yuan, Yujin
Yan, Yuliang
Wang, Zhengyang
Xiao, Zhibo
Ma, Zhixin
Zhou, Zile
Zhang, Ziqi
author_facet Yi, Chao
Chen, Dian
Guo, Gaoyang
Tang, Jiakai
Wu, Jian
Yu, Jing
Zhang, Mao
Dai, Sunhao
Chen, Wen
Yang, Wenjun
Jiang, Yuning
Gao, Zhujin
Zheng, Bo
Li, Chi
Wang, Dimin
Wang, Dixuan
Li, Fan
Zhang, Fan
Chen, Haibin
Liu, Haozhuang
Zhu, Jialin
Wang, Jiamang
Wu, Jiawei
Cui, Jin
Huang, Ju
Zhang, Kai
Liu, Kan
Tian, Lang
Rao, Liang
Li, Longbin
Zhao, Lulu
He, Na
Wang, Peiyang
Huang, Qiqi
Luo, Tao
Su, Wenbo
He, Xiaoxiao
Tong, Xin
Chen, Xu
Xi, Xunke
Li, Yang
Wu, Yaxuan
Yang, Yeqiu
Hu, Yi
Song, Yinnan
Li, Yuchen
Luo, Yujie
Yuan, Yujin
Yan, Yuliang
Wang, Zhengyang
Xiao, Zhibo
Ma, Zhixin
Zhou, Zile
Zhang, Ziqi
contents Recommender systems are among the most impactful applications of artificial intelligence, serving as critical infrastructure connecting users, merchants, and platforms. However, most current industrial systems remain heavily reliant on historical co-occurrence patterns and log-fitting objectives, i.e., optimizing for past user interactions without explicitly modeling user intent. This log-fitting approach often leads to overfitting to narrow historical preferences, failing to capture users' evolving and latent interests. As a result, it reinforces filter bubbles and long-tail phenomena, ultimately harming user experience and threatening the sustainability of the whole recommendation ecosystem. To address these challenges, we rethink the overall design paradigm of recommender systems and propose RecGPT, a next-generation framework that places user intent at the center of the recommendation pipeline. By integrating large language models (LLMs) into key stages of user interest mining, item retrieval, and explanation generation, RecGPT transforms log-fitting recommendation into an intent-centric process. To effectively align general-purpose LLMs to the above domain-specific recommendation tasks at scale, RecGPT incorporates a multi-stage training paradigm, which integrates reasoning-enhanced pre-alignment and self-training evolution, guided by a Human-LLM cooperative judge system. Currently, RecGPT has been fully deployed on the Taobao App. Online experiments demonstrate that RecGPT achieves consistent performance gains across stakeholders: users benefit from increased content diversity and satisfaction, merchants and the platform gain greater exposure and conversions. These comprehensive improvement results across all stakeholders validates that LLM-driven, intent-centric design can foster a more sustainable and mutually beneficial recommendation ecosystem.
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spellingShingle RecGPT Technical Report
Yi, Chao
Chen, Dian
Guo, Gaoyang
Tang, Jiakai
Wu, Jian
Yu, Jing
Zhang, Mao
Dai, Sunhao
Chen, Wen
Yang, Wenjun
Jiang, Yuning
Gao, Zhujin
Zheng, Bo
Li, Chi
Wang, Dimin
Wang, Dixuan
Li, Fan
Zhang, Fan
Chen, Haibin
Liu, Haozhuang
Zhu, Jialin
Wang, Jiamang
Wu, Jiawei
Cui, Jin
Huang, Ju
Zhang, Kai
Liu, Kan
Tian, Lang
Rao, Liang
Li, Longbin
Zhao, Lulu
He, Na
Wang, Peiyang
Huang, Qiqi
Luo, Tao
Su, Wenbo
He, Xiaoxiao
Tong, Xin
Chen, Xu
Xi, Xunke
Li, Yang
Wu, Yaxuan
Yang, Yeqiu
Hu, Yi
Song, Yinnan
Li, Yuchen
Luo, Yujie
Yuan, Yujin
Yan, Yuliang
Wang, Zhengyang
Xiao, Zhibo
Ma, Zhixin
Zhou, Zile
Zhang, Ziqi
Information Retrieval
Computation and Language
Recommender systems are among the most impactful applications of artificial intelligence, serving as critical infrastructure connecting users, merchants, and platforms. However, most current industrial systems remain heavily reliant on historical co-occurrence patterns and log-fitting objectives, i.e., optimizing for past user interactions without explicitly modeling user intent. This log-fitting approach often leads to overfitting to narrow historical preferences, failing to capture users' evolving and latent interests. As a result, it reinforces filter bubbles and long-tail phenomena, ultimately harming user experience and threatening the sustainability of the whole recommendation ecosystem. To address these challenges, we rethink the overall design paradigm of recommender systems and propose RecGPT, a next-generation framework that places user intent at the center of the recommendation pipeline. By integrating large language models (LLMs) into key stages of user interest mining, item retrieval, and explanation generation, RecGPT transforms log-fitting recommendation into an intent-centric process. To effectively align general-purpose LLMs to the above domain-specific recommendation tasks at scale, RecGPT incorporates a multi-stage training paradigm, which integrates reasoning-enhanced pre-alignment and self-training evolution, guided by a Human-LLM cooperative judge system. Currently, RecGPT has been fully deployed on the Taobao App. Online experiments demonstrate that RecGPT achieves consistent performance gains across stakeholders: users benefit from increased content diversity and satisfaction, merchants and the platform gain greater exposure and conversions. These comprehensive improvement results across all stakeholders validates that LLM-driven, intent-centric design can foster a more sustainable and mutually beneficial recommendation ecosystem.
title RecGPT Technical Report
topic Information Retrieval
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22879