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R$^2$ec: Towards Large Recommender Models with Reasoning

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Author

Runyang You, Yongqi Li, Xinyu Lin, Xin Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Wenjie Li, Liqiang Nie

R$^2$ec: A Unified Large Recommender Model with Intrinsic Reasoning Capability

Outline

This paper proposes R$^2$ec, an integrated large-scale recommendation model with inference capabilities for the recommendation field. R$^2$ec introduces a dual-head architecture that supports inference chain generation and efficient item prediction in a single model, significantly reducing inference time. To address the lack of annotated inference data, we design RecPO, a reinforcement learning framework that jointly optimizes inference and recommendation through a novel fusion reward mechanism. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate that R$^2$ec outperforms conventional, LLM-based, and inference-augmented recommendation models, demonstrating competitive efficiency among conventional LLM-based recommendation models and demonstrating strong adaptability to various recommendation scenarios.

Takeaways, Limitations

A novel large-scale recommendation model incorporating inference capabilities is proposed.
Reduced inference time through dual-head architecture
Joint optimization of inference and recommendation using the RecPO reinforcement learning framework.
Demonstrated excellent performance on various datasets
Adaptability to various recommendation scenarios
Code and checkpoint disclosure
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