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SimRec: Learning to Search, Ask, and Recommend from Simulated Interaction
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摘要
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 list ranking rather than the interaction policy as a whole. We present SimRec, a reinforcement learning framework that trains the full interaction policy of a tool-integrated recommendation agent. SimRec introduces two components. A task-anchored user simulator provides feedback on every recommendation: conditioned on the current task need rather than on user profile, and it can be an external LLM or the recommender itself under self-play. A task-aligned reward optimizes the whole trajectory with GRPO, crediting natural retrieval quality and valid tool use alongside the final hit, with training-only target injection to handle sparse hits over large catalogs. On ESCI and Amazon C4, SimRec improves the NDCG@100 of a Qwen3-4B agent from 32.23% to 35.42% and from 22.94% to 24.72%}, outperforming training-free agents on far larger backbones and task-aligned baselines on NDCG. Analysis shows that the trained agent verifies candidates, uses preferences, and recovers from rejected recommendations far more often than its untrained counterpart. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZJU-REAL/SimRec .
作者备注：19 pages,5 figures,16 tables. Code: https://github.com/ZJU-REAL/SimRec
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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 list ranking rather than the interaction policy as a whole. We present SimRec, a reinforcement learning framework that trains the full interaction policy of a tool-integrated recommendation agent. SimRec introduces two components. A task-anchored user simulator provides feedback on every recommendation: conditioned on the current task need rather than on user profile, and it can be an external LLM or the recommender itself under self-play. A task-aligned reward optimizes the whole trajectory with GRPO, crediting natural retrieval quality and valid tool use alongside the final hit, with training-only target injection to handle sparse hits over large catalogs. On ESCI and Amazon C4, SimRec improves the NDCG@100 of a Qwen3-4B agent from 32.23% to 35.42% and from 22.94% to 24.72%}, outperforming training-free agents on far larger backbones and task-aligned baselines on NDCG. Analysis shows that the trained agent verifies candidates, uses preferences, and recovers from rejected recommendations far more often than its untrained counterpart. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZJU-REAL/SimRec .
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