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20202026
most citedOptEmbed: Learning Optimal Embedding Table for Click-through Rate Prediction

31 citations · 108 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

cs.IR2026

OptST: Optimizing Semantic Tokenization for LLM-Enhanced Recommendation

Hanchong Chen, Jie Liu, Fuyuan Lyu +4

Semantic information can enrich the identifiers and structured fields used by recommender systems. Semantic tokenization provides a structured representation of this information by…

cs.IR2026

From Item Scores to Semantic Tokens: Test-Time Collaborative Adaptation for Generative Recommendation

Xiongfeng Shan, Xing Tang, Hanchong Chen +5

Generative recommenders using semantic identifiers predict items through successive token decisions, but beam search may irreversibly prune promising item paths. This limitation is…

cs.AI2026

SkillForgeBench: Evaluating Agent Reliability Grounded in Agent Skill Specifications

Zhengxi Li, Junyi Zhou, Qiyuan Zhang +6

Evaluating an agent's ability to strictly satisfy diverse and procedurally complex requirements is essential to determining its practical reliability. Conducting such an evaluation…

cs.AI2026

GeoWind2Plan: Mission-Time 3D Urban Wind Prediction for Energy-Efficient UAV Planning

Shaoxiang Qin, Yucheng Zhao, Fuyuan Lyu +6

In urban low-altitude flight, buildings reshape ambient wind into spatially varying 3D flow, making unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) energy depend on local wind exposure as well as pa…

cs.IR2026

Fighting Numerical Hallucinations via Data-centric Compilation for Online Financial QA

Hao Chen, Xing Tang, Qirui Liu +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced online data services, particularly in the domain of financial question answering (FinQA). However, such systems remain susc…

cs.AI2026

Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence

Xueqing Peng, Zhuohan Xie, Yupeng Cao +60

As AI agents advance, the central question is no longer whether they can solve isolated financial tasks, but whether their capabilities generalize across complete professional work…

cs.CL2026

QUACK: Questioning, Understanding, and Auditing Communicated Knowledge in Multimodal Social Deduction Agents

Ye Yuan, Rui Song, Weien Li +12

Social deduction games have become a popular testbed for probing reasoning, deception, coordination, and belief modeling in Large Language Model (LLM) agents. However, most environ…

cs.NI2026

Beyond Message Passing: A Semantic View of Agent Communication Protocols

Dun Yuan, Fuyuan Lyu, Ye Yuan +11

Agent communication protocols are becoming critical infrastructure for large language model (LLM) systems that must use tools, coordinate with other agents, and operate across hete…

cs.LG2026

The Workload-Router-Pool Architecture for LLM Inference Optimization: A Vision Paper from the vLLM Semantic Router Project

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He +5

Over the past year, the vLLM Semantic Router project has released a series of work spanning: (1) core routing mechanisms -- signal-driven routing, context-length pool routing, rout…

cs.IR2026

Data-Driven Function Calling Improvements in Large Language Model for Online Financial QA

Xing Tang, Hao Chen, Shiwei Li +7

Large language models (LLMs) have been incorporated into numerous industrial applications. Meanwhile, a vast array of API assets is scattered across various functions in the financ…

cs.IR2026

Retrieve-then-Adapt: Retrieval-Augmented Test-Time Adaptation for Sequential Recommendation

Xing Tang, Ziqiang Cui, Jingyang Bin +6

The sequential recommendation (SR) task aims to predict the next item based on users' historical interaction sequences. Typically trained on historical data, SR models often strugg…

cs.IR2026

Give Users the Wheel: Towards Promptable Recommendation Paradigm

Fuyuan Lyu, Chenglin Luo, Qiyuan Zhang +6

Conventional sequential recommendation models have achieved remarkable success in mining implicit behavioral patterns. However, these architectures remain structurally blind to exp…

cs.AI2026

RubricBench: Aligning Model-Generated Rubrics with Human Standards

Qiyuan Zhang, Junyi Zhou, Yufei Wang +8

As Large Language Model (LLM) alignment evolves from simple completions to complex, highly sophisticated generation, Reward Models are increasingly shifting toward rubric-guided ev…

cs.CL2026

Optimizing User Profiles via Contextual Bandits for Retrieval-Augmented LLM Personalization

Linfeng Du, Ye Yuan, Zichen Zhao +8

Large language models (LLMs) excel at general-purpose tasks, yet adapting their responses to individual users remains challenging. Retrieval augmentation provides a lightweight alt…

cs.IR2025

Exploring Test-time Scaling via Prediction Merging on Large-Scale Recommendation

Fuyuan Lyu, Zhentai Chen, Jingyan Jiang +4

Inspired by the success of language models (LM), scaling up deep learning recommendation systems (DLRS) has become a recent trend in the community. All previous methods tend to sca…

cs.LG2025

Timing is Important: Risk-aware Fund Allocation based on Time-Series Forecasting

Fuyuan Lyu, Linfeng Du, Yunpeng Weng +6

Fund allocation has been an increasingly important problem in the financial domain. In reality, we aim to allocate the funds to buy certain assets within a certain future period. N…

cs.CE2025

A Predict-Then-Optimize Customer Allocation Framework for Online Fund Recommendation

Xing Tang, Yunpeng Weng, Fuyuan Lyu +2

With the rapid growth of online investment platforms, funds can be distributed to individual customers online. The central issue is to match funds with potential customers under co…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

A Survey on Test-Time Scaling in Large Language Models: What, How, Where, and How Well?

Qiyuan Zhang, Fuyuan Lyu, Zexu Sun +10

As enthusiasm for scaling computation (data and parameters) in the pretraining era gradually diminished, test-time scaling (TTS), also referred to as ``test-time computing'' has em…

cs.CL2025

Crowd Comparative Reasoning: Unlocking Comprehensive Evaluations for LLM-as-a-Judge

Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Yuxin Jiang +8

LLM-as-a-Judge, which generates chain-of-thought (CoT) judgments, has become a widely adopted auto-evaluation method. However, its reliability is compromised by the CoT reasoning's…

cs.IR2024

Fusion Matters: Learning Fusion in Deep Click-through Rate Prediction Models

Kexin Zhang, Fuyuan Lyu, Xing Tang +5

The evolution of previous Click-Through Rate (CTR) models has mainly been driven by proposing complex components, whether shallow or deep, that are adept at modeling feature intera…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Mixed-Precision Embeddings for Large-Scale Recommendation Models

Shiwei Li, Zhuoqi Hu, Xing Tang +6

Embedding techniques have become essential components of large databases in the deep learning era. By encoding discrete entities, such as words, items, or graph nodes, into continu…

cs.IR2024★ 16 cited

Comprehending Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models for Recommender Systems

Ziqiang Cui, Yunpeng Weng, Xing Tang +4

In recent years, the introduction of knowledge graphs (KGs) has significantly advanced recommender systems by facilitating the discovery of potential associations between items. Ho…

cs.CL2024

RevisEval: Improving LLM-as-a-Judge via Response-Adapted References

Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Tiezheng YU +9

With significant efforts in recent studies, LLM-as-a-Judge has become a cost-effective alternative to human evaluation for assessing text generation quality in a wide range of task…

cs.IR2024

OptDist: Learning Optimal Distribution for Customer Lifetime Value Prediction

Yunpeng Weng, Xing Tang, Zhenhao Xu +4

Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) prediction is a critical task in business applications. Accurately predicting CLTV is challenging in real-world business scenarios, as the distributi…