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cs.IR2026

LLM-Based User Personas for Recommendations at Scale

Haoting Wang, Haokai Lu, Zheyun Feng +14

The paper presents a framework that uses large language models to generate natural-language user interest personas in real time for a large‑scale video recommendation system, emplo…

cs.IR2025

Balancing Fine-tuning and RAG: A Hybrid Strategy for Dynamic LLM Recommendation Updates

Changping Meng, Hongyi Ling, Jianling Wang +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) empower recommendation systems through their advanced reasoning and planning capabilities. However, the dynamic nature of user interests and content po…

cs.IR2025

Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM

Haoting Wang, Jianling Wang, Hao Li +9

Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

cs.LG2025

EVOLvE: Evaluating and Optimizing LLMs For In-Context Exploration

Allen Nie, Yi Su, Bo Chang +4

Despite their success in many domains, large language models (LLMs) remain under-studied in scenarios requiring optimal decision-making under uncertainty. This is crucial as many r…

cs.IR2025

User Feedback Alignment for LLM-powered Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems

Jianling Wang, Yifan Liu, Yinghao Sun +11

Exploration, the act of broadening user experiences beyond their established preferences, is challenging in large-scale recommendation systems due to feedback loops and limited sig…

cs.IR2025

Beyond Item Dissimilarities: Diversifying by Intent in Recommender Systems

Yuyan Wang, Cheenar Banerjee, Samer Chucri +4

It has become increasingly clear that recommender systems that overly focus on short-term engagement prevents users from exploring diverse interests, ultimately hurting long-term u…