AgenticTagger: Structured Item Representation for Recommendation with LLM Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05945v1
• Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:01:37 GMT
• Title: AgenticTagger: Structured Item Representation for Recommendation with LLM Agents
• Authors: Zhouhang Xie, Bo Peng, Zhankui He, Ziqi Chen, Alice Han, Isabella Ye, Benjamin Coleman, Noveen Sachdeva, Fernando Pereira, Julian McAuley, Wang-Cheng Kang, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng, Beidou Wang, Randolph Brown,
• Abstract summary: AgenticTagger is a framework that queries LLMs for representing items with sequences of text descriptors.<n>To effectively and efficiently ground vocabulary in the item corpus of interest, we design a multi-agent reflection mechanism.<n>Experiments on public and private data show AgenticTagger brings consistent improvements across diverse recommendation scenarios.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: High-quality representations are a core requirement for effective recommendation. In this work, we study the problem of LLM-based descriptor generation, i.e., keyphrase-like natural language item representation generation frameworks with minimal constraints on downstream applications. We propose AgenticTagger, a framework that queries LLMs for representing items with sequences of text descriptors. However, open-ended generation provides little control over the generation space, leading to high cardinality, low-performance descriptors that renders downstream modeling challenging. To this end, AgenticTagger features two core stages: (1) a vocabulary building stage where a set of hierarchical, low-cardinality, and high-quality descriptors is identified, and (2) a vocabulary assignment stage where LLMs assign in-vocabulary descriptors to items. To effectively and efficiently ground vocabulary in the item corpus of interest, we design a multi-agent reflection mechanism where an architect LLM iteratively refines the vocabulary guided by parallelized feedback from annotator LLMs that validates the vocabulary against item data. Experiments on public and private data show AgenticTagger brings consistent improvements across diverse recommendation scenarios, including generative and term-based retrieval, ranking, and controllability-oriented, critique-based recommendation.

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