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

@inproceedings{maistro-2026-think, author = {Maria Maistro and Weihai Lu and Raffaele Perego and Xiaoxi Cui and Maria Maistro and Weihai Lu and Chenke Yin and Raffaele Perego and Xiaoxi Cui}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Think, But Don't Tell: Implicit Reasoning for LLM-based Sequential Recommendation via Multi-Teacher Distillation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {1244--1254}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809758}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809758} }