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SimRec framework trains recommendation agents via simulated interaction

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Researchers have developed SimRec, a reinforcement learning framework designed to train recommendation agents that can interact with users by searching catalogs, inspecting products, and asking clarifying questions. This framework optimizes the entire interaction policy, unlike previous methods that focused on isolated components. SimRec utilizes a task-anchored user simulator and a task-aligned reward system to improve performance, achieving a notable increase in NDCG@100 on the ESCI and Amazon C4 datasets when using a Qwen3-4B agent. AI

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SimRec framework trains recommendation agents via simulated interaction

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Yongliang Shen ·

    SimRec: Learning to Search, Ask, and Recommend from Simulated Interaction

    LLM-based recommendation agents can search catalogs, inspect products, ask users, and revise rejected recommendations. However, these behaviors are often governed by hand-designed workflows, while existing training methods optimize isolated components such as query rewriting or l…

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