LLMs, Generative Recommendation, and Research Frontiers

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CP4285 Instruction Team

03 Nov 2026

01 Overview

Week 12: LLMs, Generative Recommendation, and Research Frontiers

Learning outcomes

  • Explain modern recommendation research directions.
  • Evaluate LLM-based recommendation systems.
  • Critique emerging approaches.

  • Identify open research challenges.

02 Research Frontiers

Conversational and LLM-enhanced recommendation

TODO: add retrieval augmentation, foundation models, and causal methods. ## Ethics Thread: Trust and governance ::: {.callout-warning} TODO: examine hallucination, persuasion, and accountability. ::: —

Summary

🔑 New generative capabilities require new evidence standards.

Next week: final project presentations.