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Publications (17)

cs.LG2023

Seller-side Outcome Fairness in Online Marketplaces

Zikun Ye, Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Lalitesh Morishetti +5

This paper aims to investigate and achieve seller-side fairness within online marketplaces, where many sellers and their items are not sufficiently exposed to customers in an e-com…

cs.IR2024

Improving Sequential Recommender Systems with Online and In-store User Behavior

Luyi Ma, Aashika Padmanabhan, Anjana Ganesh +9

Online e-commerce platforms have been extending in-store shopping, which allows users to keep the canonical online browsing and checkout experience while exploring in-store shoppin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

20 Second Parity Lifetime in an InAs--Pb Tetron Device

Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam, Mariusz Andrzejczuk +162

A central promise of topological quantum computing is that increasing the excitation gap improves device performance significantly. Here, we experimentally validate this principle…

cs.IR2026

Latent Customer Segmentation and Value-Based Recommendation Leveraging a Two-Stage Model with Missing Labels

Keerthi Gopalakrishnan, Tianning Dong, Chia-Yen Ho +5

The success of businesses depends on their ability to convert consumers into loyal customers. A customer's value proposition is a primary determinant in this process, requiring a b…

cs.IR2025

CARTS: Collaborative Agents for Recommendation Textual Summarization

Jiao Chen, Kehui Yao, Reza Yousefi Maragheh +6

Current recommendation systems often require some form of textual data summarization, such as generating concise and coherent titles for product carousels or other grouped item dis…

cs.IR2019

Knowledge-aware Complementary Product Representation Learning

Da Xu, Chuanwei Ruan, Jason Cho +3

Learning product representations that reflect complementary relationship plays a central role in e-commerce recommender system. In the absence of the product relationships graph, w…

cs.AI2025

To See or To Read: User Behavior Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

Tianning Dong, Luyi Ma, Varun Vasudevan +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are reshaping how modern agentic systems reason over sequential user-behavior data. However, whether textual or image representations of us…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Distinct Lifetimes for and Loop Measurements in a Majorana Tetron Device

Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam, Rikke Andersen +164

We present a hardware realization and measurements of a tetron qubit device in a superconductor-semiconductor heterostructure. The device architecture contains two parallel superco…

cs.IR2023

GNN-GMVO: Graph Neural Networks for Optimizing Gross Merchandise Value in Similar Item Recommendation

Ramin Giahi, Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Nima Farrokhsiar +5

Similar item recommendation is a critical task in the e-Commerce industry, which helps customers explore similar and relevant alternatives based on their interested products. Despi…

cs.HC2021

Look at Me When I Talk to You: A Video Dataset to Enable Voice Assistants to Recognize Errors

Andrea Cuadra, Hansol Lee, Jason Cho +1

People interacting with voice assistants are often frustrated by voice assistants' frequent errors and inability to respond to backchannel cues. We introduce an open-source video d…

cs.IR2025

Triple Modality Fusion: Aligning Visual, Textual, and Graph Data with Large Language Models for Multi-Behavior Recommendations

Luyi Ma, Xiaohan Li, Zezhong Fan +7

Integrating diverse data modalities is crucial for enhancing the performance of personalized recommendation systems. Traditional models, which often rely on singular data sources,…

cs.AI2026

LLM-HYPER: Generative CTR Modeling for Cold-Start Ad Personalization via LLM-Based Hypernetworks

Luyi Ma, Wanjia Sherry Zhang, Zezhong Fan +10

On online advertising platforms, newly introduced promotional ads face the cold-start problem, as they lack sufficient user feedback for model training. In this work, we propose LL…

cs.IR2025

MetaSynth: Multi-Agent Metadata Generation from Implicit Feedback in Black-Box Systems

Shreeranjani Srirangamsridharan, Ali Abavisani, Reza Yousefi Maragheh +4

Meta titles and descriptions strongly shape engagement in search and recommendation platforms, yet optimizing them remains challenging. Search engine ranking models are black box e…

cs.IR2023

LLM-TAKE: Theme Aware Keyword Extraction Using Large Language Models

Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Chenhao Fang, Charan Chand Irugu +8

Keyword extraction is one of the core tasks in natural language processing. Classic extraction models are notorious for having a short attention span which make it hard for them to…

cs.CL2025

GRACE: Generative Recommendation via Journey-Aware Sparse Attention on Chain-of-Thought Tokenization

Luyi Ma, Wanjia Zhang, Kai Zhao +15

Generative models have recently demonstrated strong potential in multi-behavior recommendation systems, leveraging the expressive power of transformers and tokenization to generate…

cs.CL2025

LLM-driven Constrained Copy Generation through Iterative Refinement

Varun Vasudevan, Faezeh Akhavizadegan, Abhinav Prakash +5

Crafting a marketing message (copy), or copywriting is a challenging generation task, as the copy must adhere to various constraints. Copy creation is inherently iterative for huma…

cs.IR2025

ARAG: Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation for Personalized Recommendation

Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Pratheek Vadla, Priyank Gupta +7

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shown promise in enhancing recommendation systems by incorporating external context into large language model prompts. However, existing RA…