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Factorized Latent Reasoning for LLM-based Recommendation

sigir26-035 · Full research paper · Tianqi Gao, Chengkai Huang, Zihan Wang, Cao Liu, Ke Zeng, Lina Yao
LLM-Based Sequential Recommendation · 50% Preference Alignment and Optimizatio · 25% Sequential and Session-based Recomme · 25%
Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been adopted for recommendation by framing user preference modeling as a language generation problem. However, existing latent reasoning approaches typically represent user intent with a single latent vector, which struggles to capture the inherently multi-faceted nature of user preferences. We propose Factorized Latent Reasoning (FLR), a novel framework for LLM-based sequential recommendation that decomposes latent reasoning into multiple disentangled preference factors. FLR introduces a lightweight multi-factor attention module that iteratively refines a latent thought representation, where each factor attends to distinct aspects of the user's interaction history. To encourage diversity and specialization, we design orthogonality, attention diversity, and sparsity regularization objectives, and dynamically aggregate factor contributions for the final prediction. We further integrate FLR with an efficient reinforcement learning strategy based on group-relative policy optimization, enabling stable alignment directly in the latent reasoning space. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that FLR consistently outperforms strong baselines while improving robustness and interpretability. Our data and code are available at https://github.com/ToAdventure/FLR.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Zhengyi Yang 0007
67
67 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
64 On Softmax Direct Preference Optimization for Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
64 AlphaDPO: Adaptive Reward Margin for Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
2 Chongming Gao
62
77 Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
66 Tunable LLM-based Proactive Recommendation Agent (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
65 MGFRec: Towards Reinforced Reasoning Recommendation with Multiple Groundings and Feedback (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
3 Jiancan Wu
60
77 Customizing Language Models with Instance-wise LoRA for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
71 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
71 Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Maolin Wang 0001 53
Area-chair candidates (7)
Maolin Wang 0001 assigned 5315 papers
Yanan Niu 5015 papers
Pengyue Jia 4910 papers
Kun Gai 485 papers
Leyu Lin 4815 papers
Xin Xin 0003 COI: co-author 4710 papers
Jun Xu 0001 472 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Zhengyi Yang 0007 assigned 67 3
67 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
64 On Softmax Direct Preference Optimization for Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
2 Chongming Gao assigned 62 3
77 Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
66 Tunable LLM-based Proactive Recommendation Agent (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
3 Jiancan Wu assigned 60 3
77 Customizing Language Models with Instance-wise LoRA for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
71 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
4 Jizhi Zhang 57 3
64 Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
64 TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation (2023) Preference Alignment and Optimization
5 Bowen Zheng 0005 55 3
78 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
57 Autonomous Reasoning-Retrieval for Large Language Model Based Recommendation (2025) Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval and Ranking
6 Bo Chen 0023 53 3
79 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
73 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
7 Yang Zhang 0072 53 3
64 Reason4Rec: Deliberative User Preference Alignment of Large Language Models for Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
64 TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation (2023) Preference Alignment and Optimization
9 Jianling Wang 52 3
66 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
58 A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists (2019) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
10 Hao Liu 0078 52 3
78 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
48 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
11 Bo Peng 0009 52 3
58 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
54 eCeLLM: Generalizing Large Language Models for E-commerce from Large-scale, High-quality Instruction Data (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
12 Xiao Zhang 0034 52 3
67 MoRE: A Mixture of Reflectors Framework for Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
65 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
13 Junwei Pan 51 3
69 Cross-Scale Collaboration between LLMs and Lightweight Sequential Recommenders with Domain-Specific Latent Reasoning (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
66 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
14 Fei Sun 0001 COI: co-author 51 3
54 Personalized re-ranking for recommendation (2019) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
53 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
15 Xuanhua Yang 50 3
70 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
57 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
17 Han Li 0005 50 3
78 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
59 Lasso: Large Language Model-based User Simulator for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2025) User Simulation for Interactive Systems
18 Shuchang Liu 0001 49 3
64 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
54 Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
19 Jieming Zhu 49 3
72 ROMA: Recommendation-Oriented Language Model Adaptation Using Multi-Modal Multi-Domain Item Sequences (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
55 Efficient and Deployable Knowledge Infusion for Open-World Recommendations via Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
22 Min Hou 0004 48 3
75 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
65 RecCocktail: A Generalizable and Efficient Framework for LLM-Based Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
23 Yang Song 0008 48 3
53 Mixed Attention Network for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
53 Learning and Optimization of Implicit Negative Feedback for Industrial Short-video Recommender System (2023) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
24 Wei Guo 0006 48 3
55 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
54 Breaking the Bottleneck: User-Specific Optimization and Real-Time Inference Integration for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
25 Seongmin Park 0002 48 3
55 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
53 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
26 Huifeng Guo 48 3
55 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
53 SELF: Surrogate-light Feature Selection with Large Language Models in Deep Recommender Systems (2025) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion
27 Lantao Hu 48 3
54 Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
54 Unsupervised Ranking Ensemble Model for Recommendation (2024) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
29 James Caverlee 47 3
72 Language Models as Semantic Augmenters for Sequential Recommenders (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
51 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications
30 Jie Jiang 0015 47 3
71 Pre-train, Align, and Disentangle: Empowering Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
69 Cross-Scale Collaboration between LLMs and Lightweight Sequential Recommenders with Domain-Specific Latent Reasoning (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
33 Junjie Zhang 0009 46 3
56 STARec: An Efficient Agent Framework for Recommender Systems via Autonomous Deliberate Reasoning (2025) RL Training of Search Agents
54 Tapping the Potential of Large Language Models as Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Framework and Empirical Analysis (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
34 Yongjing Hao 46 3
52 Feature-Level Deeper Self-Attention Network With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
51 Tell Me Where to Go Next: Improving POI Recommendation via Conversation (2021) Conversational Recommendation Systems
35 Keqin Bao 46 3
64 TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation (2023) Preference Alignment and Optimization
59 Item-side Fairness of Large Language Model-based Recommendation System (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
36 Ke Wang 0038 46 3
66 Enhancing Cross-Domain Recommendation with Plug-In Contrastive Representations from Large Language Models (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
60 LLM-Grounded Diffusion for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
37 Qiang Luo 0004 46 3
53 FIM: Frequency-Aware Multi-View Interest Modeling for Local-Life Service Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
52 MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever (2025) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization