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LLMInit: A Free Lunch from Large Language Models for Selective Initialization of Recommendation
Weizhi Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Wooseong Yang +5
Collaborative filtering (CF) is widely adopted in industrial recommender systems (RecSys) for modeling user-item interactions across numerous applications, but often struggles with…
SGCL: Unifying Self-Supervised and Supervised Learning for Graph Recommendation
Weizhi Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Zihe Song +4
Recommender systems (RecSys) are essential for online platforms, providing personalized suggestions to users within a vast sea of information. Self-supervised graph learning seeks…
From Web Search towards Agentic Deep Research: Incentivizing Search with Reasoning Agents
Weizhi Zhang, Yangning Li, Yuanchen Bei +20
Information retrieval is a cornerstone of modern knowledge acquisition, enabling billions of queries each day across diverse domains. However, traditional keyword-based search engi…
Training Large Recommendation Models via Graph-Language Token Alignment
Mingdai Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Liangwei Yang +4
Recommender systems (RS) have become essential tools for helping users efficiently navigate the overwhelming amount of information on e-commerce and social platforms. However, trad…
Taxonomy-Guided Zero-Shot Recommendations with LLMs
Yueqing Liang, Liangwei Yang, Chen Wang +3
With the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and their ability to perform a variety of tasks, their application in recommender systems (RecSys) has shown promise. However, we…
Graph-Sequential Alignment and Uniformity: Toward Enhanced Recommendation Systems
Yuwei Cao, Liangwei Yang, Zhiwei Liu +5
Graph-based and sequential methods are two popular recommendation paradigms, each excelling in its domain but lacking the ability to leverage signals from the other. To address thi…