Awesome Agent RecSys Papers

Table of Contents

• Related Survey
• LLM Agent for Recommender Systems
  • Profile Component
  • Memory Component
  • Planning Component
  • Action Component
  • Multi-Agent
• Recommender Systems for LLM Agent
  • Memory Recommendation
  • Plan Recommendation
  • Tool Recommendation
  • Agent Recommendation
  • Personalized LLMs and LLM Agents
• Trustworthy Agents and Recommender Systems
  • Safety
  • Explainability
  • Fairness
  • Privacy

Related Survey

Paper	Venue	Year
test	arXiv	2023

LLM Agent for Recommender Systems

Profile Component

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
MemRec	MemRec: Collaborative Memory-Augmented Agentic Recommender System	arxiv	2026	Code
Agent4Rec	On Generative Agents in Recommendation	SIGIR	2024	Code
RecAgent	User Behavior Simulation with Large Language Model based Agents	arxiv	2023	N/A
MACRec	MACRec: a Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework for Recommendation	arxiv	2024	Code
RecLLM	Leveraging Large Language Models in Conversational Recommender Systems	arxiv	2023	N/A
SUBER	SUBER: An RL Environment with Simulated Human Behavior for Recommender Systems	openreview	2024	Code
CSHI	A LLM-based Controllable, Scalable, Human-Involved User Simulator Framework for Conversational Recommender Systems	arxiv	2024	Code
N/A	Evaluating Large Language Models as Generative User Simulators for Conversational Recommendation	NAACL	2024	Code
MedAgent-Zero	Agent Hospital: A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents	arxiv	2024	N/A
MACRS	A Multi-Agent Conversational Recommender System	arxiv	2024	N/A
Rec4Agentverse	Prospect Personalized Recommendation on Large Language Model-based Agent Platform	arxiv	2024	Code
AutoConcierge	Automated Interactive Domain-Specific Conversational Agents that Understand Human Dialogs	PADL	2024	N/A
AgentCF	AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems	WWW	2024	Code

Memory Component

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
MemRec	MemRec: Collaborative Memory-Augmented Agentic Recommender System	arxiv	2026	Code
AgentCF	AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems	WWW	2024	Code
Agent4Rec	On Generative Agents in Recommendation	SIGIR	2024	Code
RecAgent	User Behavior Simulation with Large Language Model based Agents	arxiv	2023	N/A
InteRecAgent	Recommender AI Agent: Integrating Large Language Models for Interactive Recommendations	arxiv	2023	Code
CSHI	A LLM-based Controllable, Scalable, Human-Involved User Simulator Framework for Conversational Recommender Systems	arxiv	2024	Code
MedAgent-Zero	Agent Hospital: A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents	arxiv	2024	N/A
RecMind	RecMind: Large Language Model Powered Agent For Recommendation	arxiv	2023	N/A
SUBER	SUBER: An RL Environment with Simulated Human Behavior for Recommender Systems	openreview	2024	Code
BiLLP	Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation	SIGIR	2024	Code
AutoConcierge	Automated Interactive Domain-Specific Conversational Agents that Understand Human Dialogs	PADL	2024	N/A
LLM4Rerank	LLM-enhanced Reranking in Recommender Systems	arxiv	2024	N/A
MACRS	A Multi-Agent Conversational Recommender System	arxiv	2024	N/A

Planning Component

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
Agent4Rec	On Generative Agents in Recommendation	SIGIR	2024	Code
MACRec	MACRec: a Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework for Recommendation	arxiv	2024	Code
RecLLM	Leveraging Large Language Models in Conversational Recommender Systems	arxiv	2023	N/A
CSHI	A LLM-based Controllable, Scalable, Human-Involved User Simulator Framework for Conversational Recommender Systems	arxiv	2024	Code
MedAgent-Zero	Agent Hospital: A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents	arxiv	2024	N/A
MACRS	A Multi-Agent Conversational Recommender System	arxiv	2024	N/A
Rec4Agentverse	Prospect Personalized Recommendation on Large Language Model-based Agent Platform	arxiv	2024	Code
AutoConcierge	Automated Interactive Domain-Specific Conversational Agents that Understand Human Dialogs	PADL	2024	N/A
AgentCF	AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems	WWW	2024	Code
InteRecAgent	Recommender AI Agent: Integrating Large Language Models for Interactive Recommendations	arxiv	2023	Code
RecMind	RecMind: Large Language Model Powered Agent For Recommendation	arxiv	2023	N/A
BiLLP	Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation	SIGIR	2024	Code
LLM4Rerank	LLM-enhanced Reranking in Recommender Systems	arxiv	2024	N/A
DRDT	DRDT: DYNAMIC REFLECTION WITH DIVERGENT THINKING FOR LLM-BASED SEQUENTIAL RECOMMENDATION	arxiv	2023	N/A
RAH	RAH! RecSys-Assistant-Human: A Human-Centered Recommendation Framework with LLM Agents	IEEE	2024	Code
ToolRec	Let Me Do It For You: Towards LLM Empowered Recommendation via Tool Learning	SIGIR	2024	Code
CoSearchAgent	CoSearchAgent: A Lightweight Collaborative Search Agent with Large Language Models	SIGIR	2024	Code

Action Component

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
Agent4Rec	On Generative Agents in Recommendation	SIGIR	2024	Code
RecAgent	User Behavior Simulation with Large Language Model based Agents	arxiv	2023	N/A
MACRec	MACRec: a Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework for Recommendation	arxiv	2024	Code
RecLLM	Leveraging Large Language Models in Conversational Recommender Systems	arxiv	2023	N/A
CSHI	A LLM-based Controllable, Scalable, Human-Involved User Simulator Framework for Conversational Recommender Systems	arxiv	2024	Code
MedAgent-Zero	Agent Hospital: A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents	arxiv	2024	N/A
MACRS	A Multi-Agent Conversational Recommender System	arxiv	2024	N/A
AgentCF	AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems	WWW	2024	Code
InteRecAgent	Recommender AI Agent: Integrating Large Language Models for Interactive Recommendations	arxiv	2023	Code
RecMind	RecMind: Large Language Model Powered Agent For Recommendation	arxiv	2023	N/A
LLM4Rerank	LLM-enhanced Reranking in Recommender Systems	arxiv	2024	N/A
RAH	RAH! RecSys-Assistant-Human: A Human-Centered Recommendation Framework with LLM Agents	IEEE	2024	Code
ToolRec	Let Me Do It For You: Towards LLM Empowered Recommendation via Tool Learning	SIGIR	2024	Code

Multi-Agent

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
MemRec	MemRec: Collaborative Memory-Augmented Agentic Recommender System	arxiv	2026	Code
Agent4Rec	On Generative Agents in Recommendation	SIGIR	2024	Code
RecAgent	User Behavior Simulation with Large Language Model based Agents	arxiv	2023	N/A
MACRec	MACRec: a Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework for Recommendation	arxiv	2024	Code
MACRS	A Multi-Agent Conversational Recommender System	arxiv	2024	N/A
Rec4Agentverse	Prospect Personalized Recommendation on Large Language Model-based Agent Platform	arxiv	2024	Code
AgentCF	AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems	WWW	2024	Code
RAH	RAH! RecSys-Assistant-Human: A Human-Centered Recommendation Framework with LLM Agents	IEEE	2024	Code

Recommender Systems for LLM Agents

Memory Recommendation

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
model_name	REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training	ICML	2020	N/A
model_name	Leveraging Passage Retrieval with Generative Models for Open Domain Question Answering	EACL	2021	N/A
model_name	Generalization Through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models	ICLR	2020	N/A
model_name	Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks	Neurips	2020	N/A
model_name	Transformer-xl: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context	ACL	2019	N/A
model_name	Hybrid Computing Using a Neural Network with Dynamic External Memory	Nature	2016	N/A
model_name	Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling	ICLR	2019	N/A
model_name	Meta-Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks	ICML	2016	N/A
model_name	Attention Is All You Need	Neurips	2017	N/A
model_name	Kgat: Knowledge Graph Attention Network for Recommendation	SIGKDD	2019	N/A
model_name	Deep Learning Based Recommender System: A Survey and New Perspectives	CSUR	2019	N/A

Plan Recommendation

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
model_name	Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Reasoners	Neurips	2022	N/A
model_name	Teaching Small Language Models to Reason	ACL	2023	N/A
model_name	Measuring and Narrowing the Compositionality Gap in Language Models	EMNLP	2023	N/A
model_name	Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models	ICLR	2023	N/A
model_name	Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models	Neurips	2022	N/A
model_name	Pal: Program-Aided Language Models	ICML	2023	N/A
model_name	Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Model	Arxiv	2021	N/A
model_name	Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models	Neurips	2024	N/A
model_name	React: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models	ICLR	2023	N/A

Tool Recommendation

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
model_name	GeckOpt: LLM System Efficiency via Intent-Based Tool Selection	VLSI	2024	N/A
model_name	Efficient Tool Use with Chain-of-Abstraction Reasoning	arXiv	2024	N/A
model_name	Openagi: When LLM Meets Domain Experts	Neurips	2024	N/A
model_name	Art: Automatic Multi-Step Reasoning and Tool-Use for Large Language Models	arXiv	2023	N/A
model_name	Hugginggpt: Solving AI Tasks with Chatgpt and Its Friends in Hugging Face	Neurips	2024	N/A
model_name	RestGPT: Connecting Large Language Models with Real-World RESTful APIs	arXiv	2023	N/A
model_name	ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models	ICLR	2023	N/A
model_name	Easytool: Enhancing LLM-Based Agents with Concise Tool Instruction	arXiv	2024	N/A
model_name	The use of MMR, Diversity-Based Reranking for Reordering Documents and Producing Summaries	SIGIR	1998	N/A
model_name	VRSD: Rethinking Similarity and Diversity for Retrieval in Large Language Models	arXiv	2024	N/A
model_name	ToolNet: Connecting Large Language Models with Massive Tools Via Tool Graph	arXiv	2024	N/A
model_name	Toolllm: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-World Apis	ICLR	2024	N/A
model_name	COLT: Towards Completeness-Oriented Tool Retrieval for Large Language Models	arXiv	2024	N/A
model_name	Syntax Error-Free and Generalizable Tool Use for LLMs Via Finite-State Decoding	arXiv	2023	N/A
model_name	ToolRerank: Adaptive and Hierarchy- Aware Reranking for Tool Retrieval	LREC-COLING	2024	N/A
model_name	Confucius: Iterative Tool Learning from Introspection Feedback by Easy-to-Difficult Curriculum	AAAI	2024	N/A
model_name	Toolkengpt: Augmenting Frozen Language Models with Massive Tools Via Tool Embeddings	Neurips	2024	N/A
model_name	Unsupervised Dense Information Retrieval with Contrastive Learning	TMLR	2022	N/A
model_name	Tptu-v2: Boosting Task Planning and Tool Usage of Large Language Model-Based Agents in Real-World Systems.	arXiv	2023	N/A
model_name	TOOLVERIFIER: Generalization to New Tools via Self-Verification	arXiv	2024	N/A
model_name	PTR: Precision-Driven Tool Recommendation for Large Language Models	arXiv	2024	N/A
model_name	Making Language Models Better Tool Learners with Execution Feedback	NAACL	2024	N/A
model_name	Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks	EMNLP	2019	N/A
model_name	The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond	FTIR	2009	N/A
model_name	Approximate Nearest Neighbor Negative Contrastive Learning for Dense Text Retrieval	ICLR	2021	N/A
model_name	Enhancing Tool Retrieval with Iterative Feedback from Large Language Models	EMNLP	2024	N/A

Agent Recommendation

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
model_name	Bert: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding	NAACL	2019	N/A
model_name	A Survey on Knowledge Graphs: Representation, Acquisition, and Applications	IEEE	2021	N/A
model_name	STAMP: Short-Term Attention/Memory Priority Model for Session-Based Recommendation	SIGKDD	2018	N/A
model_name	Open Problems in Cooperative AI	arXiv	2020	N/A

Personalized LLMs and LLM Agents

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
model_name	paper_title	arXiv	2023	N/A

Trustworthy Agents and Recommender Systems

Safety

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
Llama	arXiv:2302.13971	arXiv	2023	Code
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11462	arXiv	2020	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11462	arXiv	2022	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01663#:~:text=In%20the%20future%2C%20powerful%20AI%20systems%20may%20be,on%20in%20order%20to%20achieve%20better%20worst-case%20performance.	arXiv	2022	N/A
N/A	Red Teaming Language Models with Language Models	arXiv	2022	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09442	arXiv	2023	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07858	arXiv	2022	N/A
Gptfuzzer	https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10253	arXiv	2023	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20624	arXiv	2024	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20624	arXiv	2023	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05224	arXiv	2023	N/A
LIMA	https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206	arXiv	2023	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13116	arXiv	2024	N/A
N/A	https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/hash/b1efde53be364a73914f58805a001731-Abstract-Conference.html	openreview	2022	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290	arXiv	2024	N/A
N/A	https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/	N/A	2023	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07308	arXiv	2024	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09096	arXiv	2024	N/A
N/A	https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4899-7637-6_28	arXiv	2015	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08336	arXiv	2018	N/A
N/A	https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3298689.3347031	arXiv	2019	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08025	arXiv	2020	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04127	arXiv	2018	N/A
AUSH	https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08164	arXiv	2020	N/A
N/A	https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3447548.3467335	KDD	2021	N/A
PoisonRec	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9101655/	ICDE	2021	N/A
N/A	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9101655/	KDD	2022	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08147	arXiv	2022	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07858	arXiv	2022	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03286	arXiv	2022	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05197	arXiv	2023	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03825	arXiv	2024	N/A
N/A	https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04451	arXiv	2024	N/A

Explainability

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
model_name	paper_title	arXiv	2023	N/A

Fairness

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
model_name	paper_title	arXiv	2023	N/A

Privacy

Model Name	Paper	Venue	Year	Code
model_name	paper_title	arXiv	2023	N/A