Optimizing Multi-Turn Interactive Recommendation Agents via Generative Intrinsic Motivation

Large language models have given rise to interactive recommendation agents (IRAs). Through proactive clarification, tool invocation, and dynamic dialogue, IRAs shift recommender systems from passive prediction to interactive, proactive intelligence. For training IRAs, agentic reinforcement learning offers a natural pathway, as it enables models to learn interactive capabilities directly from environmental feedback without requiring costly annotated data. However, this process faces three key challenges: credit assignment in multi-turn interactions, efficient exploration in large action spaces, and coordinated learning of multiple interactive skills.