ARAG: Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation for Personalized Recommendation

In this episode, we discuss ARAG: Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation for Personalized Recommendation by Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Pratheek Vadla, Priyank Gupta, Kai Zhao, Aysenur Inan, Kehui Yao, Jianpeng Xu, Praveen Kanumala, Jason Cho, Sushant Kumar. The paper proposes ARAG, a multi-agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation framework that enhances personalized recommendation by using specialized LLM agents to better capture user preferences and context. ARAG incorporates agents for user understanding, semantic evaluation, context summarization, and item ranking to improve recommendation accuracy dynamically. Experiments show ARAG significantly outperforms existing RAG methods, demonstrating the benefits of agentic reasoning in recommendation systems.