Lusifer: LLM-based User SImulated Feedback Environment for online Recommender systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13362v4
• Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:45:21 GMT
• Title: Lusifer: LLM-based User SImulated Feedback Environment for online Recommender systems
• Authors: Danial Ebrat, Eli Paradalis, Luis Rueda,
• Abstract summary: Reinforcement learning (RL) recommender systems often rely on static datasets that fail to capture the fluid, ever changing nature of user preferences in real-world scenarios.<n>We introduce Lusifer, an LLM-based simulation environment designed to generate dynamic, realistic user feedback for RL-based recommender training.
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• Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) recommender systems often rely on static datasets that fail to capture the fluid, ever changing nature of user preferences in real-world scenarios. Meanwhile, generative AI techniques have emerged as powerful tools for creating synthetic data, including user profiles and behaviors. Recognizing this potential, we introduce Lusifer, an LLM-based simulation environment designed to generate dynamic, realistic user feedback for RL-based recommender training. In Lusifer, user profiles are incrementally updated at each interaction step, with Large Language Models (LLMs) providing transparent explanations of how and why preferences evolve. We focus on the MovieLens dataset, extracting only the last 40 interactions for each user, to emphasize recent behavior. By processing textual metadata (such as movie overviews and tags) Lusifer creates more context aware user states and simulates feedback on new items, including those with limited or no prior ratings. This approach reduces reliance on extensive historical data and facilitates cold start scenario handling and adaptation to out of distribution cases. Our experiments compare Lusifer with traditional collaborative filtering models, revealing that while Lusifer can be comparable in predictive accuracy, it excels at capturing dynamic user responses and yielding explainable results at every step. These qualities highlight its potential as a scalable, ethically sound alternative to live user experiments, supporting iterative and user-centric evaluations of RL-based recommender strategies. Looking ahead, we envision Lusifer serving as a foundational tool for exploring generative AI-driven user simulations, enabling more adaptive and personalized recommendation pipelines under real world constraints.

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