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Publications (6)

cs.IR2025

STAR: A Simple Training-free Approach for Recommendations using Large Language Models

Dong-Ho Lee, Adam Kraft, Long Jin +5

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) offers promising new approaches for recommendation system tasks. While the current state-of-the-art methods rely on fine-tuning LLMs…

cs.LG2021

PyGlove: Symbolic Programming for Automated Machine Learning

Daiyi Peng, Xuanyi Dong, Esteban Real +7

Neural networks are sensitive to hyper-parameter and architecture choices. Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is a promising paradigm for automating these choices. Current ML soft…

cs.CV2018

A Weakly Supervised Approach for Estimating Spatial Density Functions from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

Nathan Jacobs, Adam Kraft, Muhammad Usman Rafique +1

We propose a neural network component, the regional aggregation layer, that makes it possible to train a pixel-level density estimator using only coarse-grained density aggregates,…

cs.CL2025

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431

In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…

cs.IR2024

Leveraging LLM Reasoning Enhances Personalized Recommender Systems

Alicia Y. Tsai, Adam Kraft, Long Jin +7

Recent advancements have showcased the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in executing reasoning tasks, particularly facilitated by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. While t…

cs.CL2026

Gemma 4 Technical Report

Gemma Team, Sherif El Abd, Vaibhav Aggarwal +320

We introduce Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight, natively multimodal language models in the Gemma model family. Designed to advance compute efficiency and reasoning, the Gemm…