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Think, But Don't Tell: Implicit Reasoning for LLM-based Sequential Recommendation via Multi-Teacher Distillation

sigir26-233 · Full research paper · Weihai Lu, Xiaoxi Cui, Chenke Yin
Efficiency and Deployment · 25% LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendati · 25% Sequential and Session-based Recomme · 25% LLM-Based Sequential Recommendation · 12%
Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate significant potential in sequential recommendation, and leveraging their Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning capabilities can further unlock profound user preference understanding. However, deploying explicit CoT reasoning in real-world systems faces prohibitive challenges: (i) the conflict between the large model scale required for high-fidelity reasoning and the resource constraints of online services, and (ii) the excessive latency introduced by auto-regressive rationale generation. To address these issues, we propose I Reasoning via Multi-Teacher Distillation (IRMD), a novel framework that 'compiles' the reasoning abilities of large teacher LLMs into a lightweight student Small Language Model (SLM). IRMD first employs a Multi-Teacher CoT Synthesis with Dual-Constraint Rejection Sampling module to generate a high-quality, diverse set of reasoning paths. Subsequently, our Annealing-Scheduled Reasoning Distillation strategy progressively trains the student to internalize this logic, transitioning from mimicking explicit CoT to performing purely implicit reasoning. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that IRMD significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both recommendation accuracy and inference efficiency. Our code is accessible at https://github.com/Cxx-0/IRMD.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Bo Chen 0023
67
79 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
79 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
71 Efficient and Deployable Knowledge Infusion for Open-World Recommendations via Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
2 Junjie Zhang 0009
54
64 Tapping the Potential of Large Language Models as Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Framework and Empirical Analysis (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
64 Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Rankers for Recommender Systems (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
54 Frequency-Augmented Mixture-of-Heterogeneous-Experts Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
3 James Caverlee
51
85 Language Models as Semantic Augmenters for Sequential Recommenders (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
54 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications
54 Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning (2021) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Pengyue Jia 55
Area-chair candidates (6)
Pengyue Jia assigned 5510 papers
Maolin Wang 0001 5515 papers
Yanan Niu 5215 papers
Kun Gai 515 papers
Leyu Lin 5115 papers
Xin Xin 0003 4910 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Bo Chen 0023 assigned 67 3
79 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
79 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
2 Bo Peng 0009 58 3
64 eCeLLM: Generalizing Large Language Models for E-commerce from Large-scale, High-quality Instruction Data (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
59 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
3 Jieming Zhu 58 3
74 ROMA: Recommendation-Oriented Language Model Adaptation Using Multi-Modal Multi-Domain Item Sequences (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
71 Efficient and Deployable Knowledge Infusion for Open-World Recommendations via Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
4 Jianling Wang 58 3
72 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
71 Fresh Content Recommendation at Scale: A Multi-funnel Solution and the Potential of LLMs (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
5 Zhengyi Yang 0007 57 3
65 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
55 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
6 Bowen Zheng 0005 57 3
78 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
54 Reciprocal Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
7 Hao Liu 0078 55 3
84 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
51 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
8 Yang Zhang 0072 55 3
64 Preliminary Study on Incremental Learning for Large Language Model-based Recommender Systems (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
61 AlpsBench: An LLM Personalization Benchmark for Real-Dialogue Memorization and Preference Alignment (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
10 Chongming Gao 55 3
66 Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
62 Tunable LLM-based Proactive Recommendation Agent (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
12 Junjie Zhang 0009 assigned 54 3
64 Tapping the Potential of Large Language Models as Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Framework and Empirical Analysis (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
64 Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Rankers for Recommender Systems (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
13 Jizhi Zhang 54 3
64 Navigating Large Language Models for Recommendation: From Architecture to Learning Paradigms and Deployment (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
60 Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
14 Fei Sun 0001 54 3
60 LoRec: Combating Poisons with Large Language Model for Robust Sequential Recommendation (2024) Robustness to Noise and Distribution Shift
54 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
15 Jiancan Wu 53 3
81 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
81 Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
16 Junwei Pan 53 3
76 Cross-Scale Collaboration between LLMs and Lightweight Sequential Recommenders with Domain-Specific Latent Reasoning (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
67 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
17 Han Li 0005 53 3
78 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
58 LEARN: Knowledge Adaptation from Large Language Model to Recommendation for Practical Industrial Application (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
18 Wei Guo 0006 53 3
70 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
55 Breaking the Bottleneck: User-Specific Optimization and Real-Time Inference Integration for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
19 Shuchang Liu 0001 52 3
60 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
59 Recommendation as Language Processing (RLP): A Unified Pretrain, Personalized Prompt & Predict Paradigm (P5) (2022) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
21 Qijiong Liu 52 3
75 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
60 ONCE: Boosting Content-based Recommendation with Both Open- and Closed-source Large Language Models (2024) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion
22 Xiao Zhang 0034 51 3
65 MoRE: A Mixture of Reflectors Framework for Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
56 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
23 Huifeng Guo 51 3
66 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
61 Prompt Tuning as User Inherent Profile Inference Machine (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
25 Min Hou 0004 51 3
87 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
64 RecCocktail: A Generalizable and Efficient Framework for LLM-Based Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
26 James Caverlee assigned 51 3
85 Language Models as Semantic Augmenters for Sequential Recommenders (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
54 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications
27 Chen Wang 0052 51 3
67 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
54 Sequential Recommendation with Auxiliary Item Relationships via Multi-Relational Transformer (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation
29 Seongmin Park 0002 51 3
57 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
54 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
30 Jie Jiang 0015 50 3
81 Pre-train, Align, and Disentangle: Empowering Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
76 Cross-Scale Collaboration between LLMs and Lightweight Sequential Recommenders with Domain-Specific Latent Reasoning (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
31 Yang Song 0008 50 3
54 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
32 Lantao Hu 50 3
55 Modeling User Fatigue for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
53 Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
33 Yupeng Hou 49 3
71 Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Rankers for Recommender Systems (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
53 Adapting Large Language Models by Integrating Collaborative Semantics for Recommendation (2024) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment
34 Xuanhua Yang 49 3
66 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
51 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
36 Yongjing Hao 49 3
55 Feature-Level Deeper Self-Attention Network With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
52 Learnable Model Augmentation Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation