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

I Reasoning via Multi-Teacher Distillation is proposed, a novel framework that 'compiles' the reasoning abilities of large teacher LLMs into a lightweight student Small Language Model (SLM), which significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both recommendation accuracy and inference efficiency.