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8 papers

cs.IR2026

SCOReD: Student-Aware CoT Optimization for Recommendation Distillation

Haz Sameen Shahgir, Yufei Li, Xiaohan Wei +8

Chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation in the recommendation domain is a necessary precursor to RL training, but raw teacher traces are ill-suited to this task. Large teachers approac…

cs.IR2026

GR2 Technical Report

Yufei Li, Zaiwei Zhang, Mingfu Liang +67

Industrial recommendation systems serve billions of users through a multi-stage funnel -- retrieval, early-stage ranking, and re-ranking -- where the final re-ranking step dispropo…

cs.IR2026

GR2: Generative Reasoning Re-ranker

Mingfu Liang, Yufei Li, Jay Xu +20

Recent studies increasingly explore Large Language Models (LLMs) as a new paradigm for recommendation systems due to their scalability and world knowledge. However, existing work h…

cs.CL2026

Learning Evidence Highlighting for Frozen LLMs

Shaoang Li, Yanhang Shi, Yufei Li +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) can reason well, yet often miss decisive evidence when it is buried in long, noisy contexts. We introduce HiLight, an Evidence Emphasis framework that…

cs.AI2026

OpenMic: A Multi-Agent-Based Stand-Up Comedy Generation System

Yuyang Wu, Hanzhong Cao, Jianhao Chen +1

Chinese stand-up comedy generation goes beyond plain text generation, requiring culturally grounded humor, precise timing, stage-performance cues, and implicit multi-step reasoning…

cs.LG2025

MACE: A Hybrid LLM Serving System with Colocated SLO-aware Continuous Retraining Alignment

Yufei Li, Yu Fu, Yue Dong +1

Large language models (LLMs) deployed on edge servers are increasingly used in latency-sensitive applications such as personalized assistants, recommendation, and content moderatio…