让推荐系统主动查缺补漏,自动调用工具获取信息
RecThinker: An Agentic Framework for Tool-Augmented Reasoning in Recommendation
- 采用分析-规划-执行框架,动态决定何时调用工具
- 在多个数据集上超越现有基线,推荐准确率显著提升
- 适合需要智能决策的推荐场景,尤其用户信息不全时
大型语言模型(LLMs)通过强大的推理与灵活决策能力革新了推荐代理。然而,现有方法多采用被动信息获取模式,依赖静态预设流程或受限信息进行推理,难以判断信息是否充足,导致用户画像碎片化或物品元数据稀疏时推荐效果不佳。为此,我们提出RecThinker,一个面向推荐任务的工具增强型智能体框架,将推荐从被动处理转变为自主探查:通过动态规划推理路径,主动调用工具获取关键信息。RecThinker采用分析-规划-执行范式,先评估用户-物品信息充分性,再自主调用工具链填补知识缺口。我们设计了一套专用工具,支持获取用户侧、物品侧及协同信息,以提升推理质量与匹配精度。此外,引入自增强训练流程,包含监督微调(SFT)阶段内化高质量推理轨迹,以及强化学习(RL)阶段优化决策准确率与工具使用效率。在多个基准数据集上的大量实验表明,RecThinker在推荐任务中持续优于强基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized recommendation agents by providing superior reasoning and flexible decision-making capabilities. However, existing methods mainly follow a passive information acquisition paradigm, where agents either rely on static pre-defined workflows or perform reasoning with constrained information. It limits the agent's ability to identify information sufficiency, often leading to suboptimal recommendations when faced with fragmented user profiles or sparse item metadata. To address these limitations, we propose RecThinker, an agentic framework for tool-augmented reasoning in recommendation, which shifts recommendation from passive processing to autonomous investigation by dynamically planning reasoning paths and proactively acquiring essential information via autonomous tool-use. Specifically, RecThinker adopts an Analyze-Plan-Act paradigm, which first analyzes the sufficiency of user-item information and autonomously invokes tool-calling sequences to bridge information gaps between available knowledge and reasoning requirements. We develop a suite of specialized tools for RecThinker, enabling the model to acquire user-side, item-side, and collaborative information for better reasoning and user-item matching. Furthermore, we introduce a self-augmented training pipeline, comprising a Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) stage to internalize high-quality reasoning trajectories and a Reinforcement Learning (RL) stage to optimize for decision accuracy and tool-use efficiency. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that RecThinker consistently outperforms strong baselines in the recommendation scenario.
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