用多个智能体协作提升推荐系统的个性化能力,效果显著优于传统方法。
ARAG: Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation for Personalized Recommendation
- 引入四个专用大模型智能体协同完成用户理解与推荐
- 在三个数据集上达42.1%的NDCG@5提升,35.5%的Hit@5提升
- 适合研究大模型个性化推荐与智能体系统融合的学者
检索增强生成(RAG)通过将外部上下文注入大语言模型提示,展现出提升推荐系统性能的潜力。然而,现有RAG方法多依赖静态检索策略,在动态推荐场景中难以捕捉用户的细微偏好。本文提出ARAG——一种面向个性化推荐的代理式检索增强生成框架,将多智能体协作机制融入RAG流程。为更好理解用户的长期与会话行为,ARAG引入四个基于大语言模型的专用智能体:用户理解智能体从长期和会话上下文中总结用户偏好;自然语言推理(NLI)智能体评估候选物品与推断意图间的语义一致性;上下文摘要智能体整合NLI分析结果;物品排序智能体基于上下文匹配度生成推荐列表。我们在三个数据集上评估了ARAG,实验结果表明其显著优于标准RAG及基于时效性的基线方法,NDCG@5最高提升42.1%,Hit@5最高提升35.5%。消融实验证明各组件对性能均有贡献。研究揭示了在检索增强推荐中引入代理推理的有效性,并为大模型驱动的个性化推荐提供了新方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shown promise in enhancing recommendation systems by incorporating external context into large language model prompts. However, existing RAG-based approaches often rely on static retrieval heuristics and fail to capture nuanced user preferences in dynamic recommendation scenarios. In this work, we introduce ARAG, an Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation framework for Personalized Recommendation, which integrates a multi-agent collaboration mechanism into the RAG pipeline. To better understand the long-term and session behavior of the user, ARAG leverages four specialized LLM-based agents: a User Understanding Agent that summarizes user preferences from long-term and session contexts, a Natural Language Inference (NLI) Agent that evaluates semantic alignment between candidate items retrieved by RAG and inferred intent, a context summary agent that summarizes the findings of NLI agent, and an Item Ranker Agent that generates a ranked list of recommendations based on contextual fit. We evaluate ARAG accross three datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that ARAG significantly outperforms standard RAG and recency-based baselines, achieving up to 42.1% improvement in NDCG@5 and 35.5% in Hit@5. We also, conduct an ablation study to analyse the effect by different components of ARAG. Our findings highlight the effectiveness of integrating agentic reasoning into retrieval-augmented recommendation and provide new directions for LLM-based personalization.
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