activity
20242026
collaborators

11 papers

cs.CL2026

Learning Preference Adaptation for Large Language Model Personalization via Verbal Reinforcement Learning

Yuting Liu, Wei Wu, Jianzhe Zhao +1

Natural language user preferences provide an interpretable interface for LLM personalization. However, universal preference summaries often contain information irrelevant to a part…

cs.LG2026

ECHO: Entropy-Confidence Hybrid Optimization for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

Chu Zhao, Enneng Yang, Yuting Liu +2

Test-time reinforcement learning generates multiple candidate answers via repeated rollouts and performs online updates using pseudo-labels constructed by majority voting. To reduc…

cs.IR2026

Hard Negative Sampling via Large Language Models for Recommendation

Chu Zhao, Enneng Yang, Yuting Liu +2

Hard negative sampling improves recommendation performance by accelerating convergence and sharpening the decision boundary. However, most existing methods rely on heuristic strate…

cs.CL2026

Text as a Universal Interface for Transferable Personalization

Yuting Liu, Jian Guan, Jia-Nan Li +4

We study the problem of personalization in large language models (LLMs). Prior work predominantly represents user preferences as implicit, model-specific vectors or parameters, yie…

cs.IR2025

RAGAR: Retrieval Augmented Personalized Image Generation Guided by Recommendation

Run Ling, Wenji Wang, Yuting Liu +12

Personalized image generation is crucial for improving the user experience, as it renders reference images into preferred ones according to user visual preferences. Although effect…

cs.IR2025

Repeated Padding+: Simple yet Effective Data Augmentation Plugin for Sequential Recommendation

Yizhou Dang, Yuting Liu, Enneng Yang +4

Sequential recommendation aims to provide users with personalized suggestions based on their historical interactions. When training sequential models, padding is a widely adopted t…