# UserArena: Benchmarking Interactive User Simulation for Long-Horizon Shopping Agents

> Source: <https://aiflash.com/news/139545/>
> Published: 2026-10-26 03:00:52+00:00

Agentic recommendation pursues shopper goals through sequences of context-dependent decisions. Developing and evaluating such policies requires faithful recommendation world models that capture both the interactive shopping environment and users' behavioral responses over long interactions. Existing
