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AgentCF++: Memory-enhanced LLM-based Agents for Popularity-aware Cross-domain Recommendations

Information Retrieval 2025-04-21 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

LLM-based user agents, which simulate user interaction behavior, are emerging as a promising approach to enhancing recommender systems. In real-world scenarios, users' interactions often exhibit cross-domain characteristics and are influenced by others. However, the memory design in current methods causes user agents to introduce significant irrelevant information during decision-making in cross-domain scenarios and makes them unable to recognize the influence of other users' interactions, such as popularity factors. To tackle this issue, we propose a dual-layer memory architecture combined with a two-step fusion mechanism. This design avoids irrelevant information during decision-making while ensuring effective integration of cross-domain preferences. We also introduce the concepts of interest groups and group-shared memory to better capture the influence of popularity factors on users with similar interests. Comprehensive experiments validate the effectiveness of AgentCF++. Our code is available at https://github.com/jhliu0807/AgentCF-plus.

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@article{arxiv.2502.13843,
  title  = {AgentCF++: Memory-enhanced LLM-based Agents for Popularity-aware Cross-domain Recommendations},
  author = {Jiahao Liu and Shengkang Gu and Dongsheng Li and Guangping Zhang and Mingzhe Han and Hansu Gu and Peng Zhang and Tun Lu and Li Shang and Ning Gu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13843},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted by SIGIR 2025, 6 pages

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