# AgentWebRec: Compact Evidence Fusion over the Agent Web for Personalized Recommendation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01705 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.01705/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Agentic recommender systems, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use.
- Builds on 31 of its 46 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 1 Oct 2026.

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- LLM agents and tool use / [Agentic recommender systems](https://mlsanity.com/agents/agentic-recommender-systems/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 31)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

LLM-based personal agents are emerging as persistent carriers of user semantics and intermediaries between users and recommendation platforms, maintaining richer user knowledge locally. As agents interact with one another, the conventional textitUser--Platform relation evolves into a textitUser--Agent Web--Platform information pathway, enabling distributed user-side information to complement item-side information. This new pathway, however, defies conventional recommendation: evidence is scattered across mutually opaque agents and reachable only through bounded queries, only a small portion of it is relevant to the current recommendation decision, and the responses returned by different agents are semantically heterogeneous. We therefore recast recommendation over the agent web as a task-time evidence acquisition and fusion problem under a finite evidence budget by deciding what to ask and what to keep, rather than learning from aggregated data. We propose AgentWebRec, a user-agent-oriented framework that progressively acquires and fuses distributed evidence for each user-item decision while keeping underlying agent memories local. It grounds each decision in platform-provided item semantics and task-relevant evidence from the target user agent's private memory, and conditionally queries neighboring user agents for complementary preference patterns when local evidence is insufficient. Experiments on four InstructRec datasets show that AgentWebRec consistently outperforms baseline recommenders, and ablations verify that the evidence layers contribute complementary gains.