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New agent RecVerse simulates human shopping behavior with advanced memory and RL

Researchers have developed RecVerse, a novel agent designed to more faithfully simulate human shopping behavior in e-commerce environments. This agent addresses two key challenges: memory limitations in long sessions and the optimization difficulties of current simulation methods. RecVerse employs a hierarchical memory system and is trained using trajectory-level reinforcement learning, enabling it to produce more realistic and intent-consistent user sessions. The team also released the User Simulation Benchmark (USB) dataset to facilitate further research in this area. AI

IMPACT This research could improve offline evaluation and RL training for e-commerce recommender systems, reducing the need for costly online A/B testing.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel agent and dataset for simulating user behavior.

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New agent RecVerse simulates human shopping behavior with advanced memory and RL

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Bo Zheng ·

    Towards Faithful Simulation of Human Shopping Behavior

    Simulating realistic user shopping behavior underpins offline evaluation and reinforcement learning in e-commerce scenarios. While recent LLM- and VLM-based simulators have made encouraging progress, reproducing a real browsing session remains difficult for two reasons. (i) Memor…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Towards Faithful Simulation of Human Shopping Behavior

    RecVerse is a GUI-grounded agent that uses hierarchical memory and trajectory-level reinforcement learning to simulate realistic multi-turn e-commerce shopping sessions.