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Role of Personality in Conversational Information Seeking

Abdisalam Abukar, Junchen Fu, Chengli Zhai +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for information seeking, where users find, compare, and evaluate information through dialogue. In this role, the assistant does m…

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RecRec: Latent Interests Recursive Reasoning for Sequential Recommendation

Wenhao Deng, Junchen Fu, Hanwen Du +6

The paper introduces RecRec, a framework that separates reasoning from prediction in sequential recommendation by compressing user histories into multiple latent interests and recu…

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Stream-aware Side Adaptation for Large Pre-trained Multimodal Embedding Models in Sequential Recommendation

Junchen Fu, Kaiwen Zheng, Ioannis Arapakis +4

Recently, large pretrained multimodal embedding models such as Qwen3-VL Embedding have shown strong promise for sequential recommendation, as they provide reusable semantic item re…

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The 2nd EReL@MIR Workshop on Efficient Representation Learning for Multimodal Information Retrieval

Junchen Fu, Xuri Ge, Xin Xin +6

Multimodal representation learning has attracted increasing attention in AI, driven by the strong performance of large, pretrained multimodal foundation models such as Qwen, LLaVA,…

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Differentiable Semantic ID for Generative Recommendation

Junchen Fu, Xuri Ge, Alexandros Karatzoglou +4

Generative recommendation provides a novel paradigm in which each item is represented by a discrete semantic ID (SID) learned from rich content. Most existing methods treat SIDs as…

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Are Multimodal Embeddings Truly Beneficial for Recommendation? A Deep Dive into Whole vs. Individual Modalities

Yu Ye, Junchen Fu, Yu Song +2

Multimodal recommendation has emerged as a mainstream paradigm, typically leveraging text and visual embeddings extracted from pre-trained models such as Sentence-BERT, Vision Tran…