An Agentic AI-based Multi-Agent Framework for Recommender Systems
Ivens Portugal, Paulo Carvalho de Alencar, Donald D. Cowan · 2024
Agentic AI describes the use of LLMs in novel AI agents that can answer questions or collaborate to achieve goals. These LLM agents can be used to build a novel generation of recommender systems. However, little is known about the LLM agents or their relationships needed to provide recommendations. Once identified, a framework can be constructed. Moreover, evaluating this framework is still not well understood. In this paper, we propose an agentic AI-based, multi-agent framework for recommender systems. We first identify LLM agents proposed in the literature, followed by the identification of their relationships and we propose a framework to represent them. Next, we evaluate this framework with respect to the LLM agents and functionalities of a recommender system based on published studies. This study is a stepping stone in a novel paradigm shift in the construction of recommender systems.