用LLM代理作为用户与推荐系统间的防护盾,保护用户隐私与兴趣
iAgent: LLM Agent as a Shield between User and Recommender Systems
- 引入LLM代理作为用户与平台间的中间层,实现间接交互
- 解决传统推荐系统中用户控制力弱、易被操纵等问题
- 适合关注隐私保护与个性化推荐的用户及研究者
传统推荐系统采用用户-平台范式,使用户直接暴露于平台算法控制下,存在诸多缺陷。许多复杂模型以商业目标为导向,忽视用户真实兴趣;且基于全量用户数据优化,难以兼顾个体偏好。这导致用户面临控制权缺失、平台操纵、回音室效应以及非活跃用户个性化不足等问题。尽管已有研究尝试用LLM代理模拟用户行为,但多聚焦于提升平台性能,未根本解决推荐系统核心问题。为此,本文提出用户-代理-平台新范式,由代理作为防护屏障,实现用户与推荐系统的间接接触,从而更好保护用户利益。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Traditional recommender systems usually take the user-platform paradigm, where users are directly exposed under the control of the platform's recommendation algorithms. However, the defect of recommendation algorithms may put users in very vulnerable positions under this paradigm. First, many sophisticated models are often designed with commercial objectives in mind, focusing on the platform's benefits, which may hinder their ability to protect and capture users' true interests. Second, these models are typically optimized using data from all users, which may overlook individual user's preferences. Due to these shortcomings, users may experience several disadvantages under the traditional user-platform direct exposure paradigm, such as lack of control over the recommender system, potential manipulation by the platform, echo chamber effects, or lack of personalization for less active users due to the dominance of active users during collaborative learning. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a new paradigm to protect user interests and alleviate these issues. Recently, some researchers have introduced LLM agents to simulate user behaviors, these approaches primarily aim to optimize platform-side performance, leaving core issues in recommender systems unresolved. To address these limitations, we propose a new user-agent-platform paradigm, where agent serves as the protective shield between user and recommender system that enables indirect exposure.
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