Enhancing Group Recommendation with Memory-Augmented Reasoning in LLM Agent

Abstract

The core challenge in group recommendation lies in modeling the dynamic evolution of user preferences and explain?ing the consensus formation process. Existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based methods, despite improved interpretability, treat interaction history as fixed text, ignoring the natural evolution of group/user preferences over time, and lacking explicit modeling of the complex group decision-making process. To address these issues, we propose AGR, a LLM-based agent, which consists of a Memory Module and a Reasoning Module. The Memory Module employs a token-based hash table to dynamically manage the historical interactions of groups and users. This design supports fundamental operations including insertion, updating, retrieval, forgetting of irrelevant records, and summarization of evolving group and user profiles for efficiently tracking. Based on these retrieved dynamic profiles, the Reason?ing Module then performs a multi-step reasoning process includ?ing Group Interests Collection, Group Consensus Refinement, Multi-dimensional Evaluation and Explainable Recommendation Generation, thereby moving beyond black-box inference to de?liver fully interpretable recommendations. In practice, we adopt the Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) paradigm, where we first use Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) to equip the model with basic capabilities for invoking the Memory and Reasoning modules, and then employ Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to enhance its autonomous ability to coordinate these modules. Experiments on LastFM and Douban datasets demonstrate that AGR significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in both recommendation accuracy and explainability. Our model is open-sourced at https://huggingface.co/niuqimeng/AGR.