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Verifiable Reasoning for LLM-based Generative Recommendation

sigir26-098 · Full research paper · Xinyu Lin, Hanqing Zeng, Hanchao Yu, Yinglong Xia, J. J. Zhang, Aashu Singh, Fei Liu, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Tat‐Seng Chua, Qifan Wang
Generative Recommendation and Item T · 25% Generative Retrieval and Recommendat · 25% Preference Alignment and Optimizatio · 25% Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Au · 12%
Abstract

Reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) has recently shown strong potential in enhancing generative recommendation through deep understanding of complex user preference. Existing approaches follow a reason-then-recommend paradigm, where LLMs perform step-by-step reasoning before item generation. However, this paradigm inevitably suffers from reasoning degradation (i.e., homogeneous or error-accumulated reasoning) due to the lack of intermediate verification, thus undermining the recommendation. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel reason-verify-recommend paradigm, which interleaves reasoning with verification to provide reliable feedback, guiding the reasoning process toward more faithful user preference understanding. To enable effective verification, we establish two key principles for verifier design: 1) reliability ensures accurate evaluation of reasoning correctness and informative guidance generation; and 2) multi-dimensionality emphasizes comprehensive verification across multi-dimensional user preferences. Accordingly, we propose an effective implementation called VRec. It employs a mixture of verifiers to ensure multi-dimensionality, while leveraging a proxy prediction objective to pursue reliability. Experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate that VRec substantially enhances recommendation effectiveness and scalability without compromising efficiency.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Xuanhua Yang
60
84 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
75 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
61 Towards Personalized Bundle Creative Generation with Contrastive Non-Autoregressive Decoding (2022) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
2 Jieming Zhu
58
74 EAGER-LLM: Enhancing Large Language Models as Recommenders through Exogenous Behavior-Semantic Integration (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
64 EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
61 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
3 Qijiong Liu
55
69 RecBase: Generative Foundation Model Pretraining for Zero-Shot Recommendation (2025) Generative Retrieval and Recommendation Architectures
61 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
61 Accelerating Generative Recommendation via Simple Categorical User Sequence Compression (2026) Generative Retrieval and Recommendation Architectures

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Kun Gai 51
Area-chair candidates (5)
Kun Gai assigned 515 papers
Maolin Wang 0001 5015 papers
Xiaoyi Zeng 5011 papers
Pengyue Jia 4910 papers
Yanan Niu COI: co-author 4815 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Zhengyi Yang 0007 COI: co-author 67 3
65 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
61 On Softmax Direct Preference Optimization for Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
2 Jizhi Zhang COI: co-author 62 3
65 Decoding Matters: Addressing Amplification Bias and Homogeneity Issue in Recommendations for Large Language Models (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
62 Learnable Item Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
3 Chongming Gao COI: co-author 62 3
75 MGFRec: Towards Reinforced Reasoning Recommendation with Multiple Groundings and Feedback (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
75 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
4 Yang Zhang 0072 COI: co-author 61 3
65 Decoding Matters: Addressing Amplification Bias and Homogeneity Issue in Recommendations for Large Language Models (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
65 IGD: Token Decisiveness Modeling via Information Gain in LLMs for Personalized Recommendation (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
5 Xuanhua Yang assigned 60 3
84 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
75 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
6 Bo Chen 0023 60 3
62 Generative Representational Learning of Foundation Models for Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
61 How Can Recommender Systems Benefit from Large Language Models: A Survey (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
7 Jiancan Wu COI: co-author 60 3
61 Larger or Smaller Reward Margins to Select Preferences for LLM Alignment? (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
61 AlphaDPO: Adaptive Reward Margin for Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
8 Jieming Zhu assigned 58 3
74 EAGER-LLM: Enhancing Large Language Models as Recommenders through Exogenous Behavior-Semantic Integration (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
64 EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
9 Bowen Zheng 0005 58 3
61 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
60 Adapting Large Language Models by Integrating Collaborative Semantics for Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
10 Qijiong Liu assigned 55 3
69 RecBase: Generative Foundation Model Pretraining for Zero-Shot Recommendation (2025) Generative Retrieval and Recommendation Architectures
61 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
11 Shuchang Liu 0001 COI: co-author 54 3
80 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
68 Recommendation as Language Processing (RLP): A Unified Pretrain, Personalized Prompt & Predict Paradigm (P5) (2022) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
12 Yupeng Hou 54 3
64 Inductive Generative Recommendation via Retrieval-based Speculation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
63 Multi-Behavior Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
13 Han Li 0005 53 3
64 OneSug: The Unified End-to-End Generative Framework for E-commerce Query Suggestion (2026) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
59 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
14 Junwei Pan COI: co-author 52 3
83 Cross-Scale Collaboration between LLMs and Lightweight Sequential Recommenders with Domain-Specific Latent Reasoning (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
65 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
15 Keqin Bao COI: co-author 52 3
65 Decoding Matters: Addressing Amplification Bias and Homogeneity Issue in Recommendations for Large Language Models (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
65 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
16 Qiang Luo 0004 52 3
62 DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
57 OneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
17 Yongqi Li 0001 COI: co-author 52 3
73 Bridging Items and Language: A Transition Paradigm for Large Language Model-Based Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
61 Learnable Item Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
18 Hao Liu 0078 51 3
61 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
47 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
19 Hao Deng 0011 51 3
62 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
59 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
20 Wei Guo 0006 51 3
64 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
61 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
22 Jianling Wang 50 3
61 Fresh Content Recommendation at Scale: A Multi-funnel Solution and the Potential of LLMs (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
60 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
23 Huifeng Guo COI: co-author 50 3
66 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
64 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
24 Ed H. Chi 50 3
65 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
60 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
25 Lichan Hong 50 3
64 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
61 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
26 Xiao Zhang 0034 50 3
63 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
60 GenSAR: Unifying Balanced Search and Recommendation with Generative Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
29 Jie Jiang 0015 COI: co-author 49 3
83 Cross-Scale Collaboration between LLMs and Lightweight Sequential Recommenders with Domain-Specific Latent Reasoning (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
63 Incremental Learning for LLM-based Tokenization and Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
30 Yang Song 0008 COI: co-author 49 3
60 GenSAR: Unifying Balanced Search and Recommendation with Generative Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
51 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) LLM-Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
31 Yu Zhang 0206 49 3
62 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
62 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
33 Bo Peng 0009 49 3
53 eCeLLM: Generalizing Large Language Models for E-commerce from Large-scale, High-quality Instruction Data (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
52 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
34 Jinxin Hu 49 3
70 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
62 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking