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cs.IR2026

Collaborative Memory Augmentation for Generative Recommendation

Enze Liu, Zhen Tian, Wayne Xin Zhao

Generative Recommendation (GR) has exhibited great potential by modeling item transitions as a sequence-to-sequence task. Despite the success of GR, existing frameworks primarily f…

cs.CL2026

Improved Large Language Diffusion Models

Shen Nie, Qiyang Min, Shaoxuan Xu +7

Modern large language models are predominantly trained with autoregressive factorization and causal attention. We present \emph{iLLaDA}, an 8B masked diffusion language model train…

cs.SE2026

DeNovoSWE: Scaling Long-Horizon Environments for Generating Entire Repositories from Scratch

Jiale Zhao, Guoxin Chen, Fanzhe Meng +4

As the capabilities of LLM-based code agents continue to advance, their expected role is expanding beyond localized bug fixing in existing codebases toward architecting and impleme…

cs.CL2026

FORT-Searcher: Synthesizing Shortcut-Resistant Search Tasks for Training Deep Search Agents

Jia Deng, Yimeng Chen, Xiaoqing Xiang +10

Training deep-search agents requires verifiable questions that demand substantial evidence acquisition, yet structurally complex tasks may still admit cheap identifying routes when…

cs.IR2026

Dual-Stream MLP is All You Need for CTR Prediction

Kesha Ou, Zhen Tian, Wayne Xin Zhao +3

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction holds a pivotal role in online advertising and recommendation systems, where even small improvements can significantly boost revenue. Existing r…

cs.CL2026

Toward Autonomous Long-Horizon Engineering for ML Research

Guoxin Chen, Jie Chen, Lei Chen +7

Agentic systems increasingly automate pieces of AI research. Yet turning underspecified research objectives into runnable, experimentally validated ML systems remains a central bot…

cs.CV2026

Towards Long-horizon Agentic Multimodal Search

Yifan Du, Zikang Liu, Jinbiao Peng +5

Multimodal deep search agents have shown great potential in solving complex tasks by iteratively collecting textual and visual evidence. However, managing the heterogeneous informa…

cs.LG2026

Low-rank Optimization Trajectories Modeling for LLM RLVR Acceleration

Zhipeng Chen, Tao Qian, Wayne Xin Zhao +1

Recently, scaling reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for large language models (LLMs) has emerged as an effective training paradigm for significantly improving m…

cs.SE2026

InCoder-32B: Code Foundation Model for Industrial Scenarios

Jian Yang, Wei Zhang, Jiajun Wu +25

Recent code large language models have achieved remarkable progress on general programming tasks. Nevertheless, their performance degrades significantly in industrial scenarios tha…

cs.IR2026

Deep Research for Recommender Systems

Kesha Ou, Chenghao Wu, Xiaolei Wang +6

The technical foundations of recommender systems have progressed from collaborative filtering to complex neural models and, more recently, large language models. Despite these tech…

cs.IR2026

Improving LLM-based Recommendation with Self-Hard Negatives from Intermediate Layers

Bingqian Li, Bowen Zheng, Xiaolei Wang +5

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in recommender systems, where supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is commonly used for adaptation. Subsequent studies further introdu…

cs.CL2026

Adaptive Ability Decomposing for Unlocking Large Reasoning Model Effective Reinforcement Learning

Zhipeng Chen, Xiaobo Qin, Wayne Xin Zhao +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown great potential to enhance the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs). However, due to the limited amount…

cs.AI2026

RecNet: Self-Evolving Preference Propagation for Agentic Recommender Systems

Bingqian Li, Xiaolei Wang, Junyi Li +5

Agentic recommender systems leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to model complex user behaviors and support personalized decision-making. However, existing methods primarily mode…

cs.IR2026

GenCI: Generative Modeling of User Interest Shift via Cohort-based Intent Learning for CTR Prediction

Kesha Ou, Zhen Tian, Wayne Xin Zhao +2

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a pivotal role in online advertising and recommender systems. Despite notable progress in modeling user preferences from historical behavi…

cs.CV2025

PAL-UI: Planning with Active Look-back for Vision-Based GUI Agents

Zikang Liu, Junyi Li, Wayne Xin Zhao +3

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) promise human-like interaction with software applications, yet long-horizon tasks remain c…

cs.AI2025

Experience-Guided Reflective Co-Evolution of Prompts and Heuristics for Automatic Algorithm Design

Yihong Liu, Junyi Li, Wayne Xin Zhao +2

Combinatorial optimization problems are traditionally tackled with handcrafted heuristic algorithms, which demand extensive domain expertise and significant implementation effort.…

cs.AI2025

Sticker-TTS: Learn to Utilize Historical Experience with a Sticker-driven Test-Time Scaling Framework

Jie Chen, Jinhao Jiang, Yingqian Min +4

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have exhibited strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, with further gains achievable through increased computational budgets at inference. Howe…

cs.CL2025

From Trial-and-Error to Improvement: A Systematic Analysis of LLM Exploration Mechanisms in RLVR

Jia Deng, Jie Chen, Zhipeng Chen +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Unlike traditiona…

cs.CV2025

Analyzing and Mitigating Object Hallucination: A Training Bias Perspective

Yifan Li, Kun Zhou, Wayne Xin Zhao +2

As scaling up training data has significantly improved the general multimodal capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they still suffer from the hallucination issue,…

cs.CL2025

Decomposing the Entropy-Performance Exchange: The Missing Keys to Unlocking Effective Reinforcement Learning

Jia Deng, Jie Chen, Zhipeng Chen +2

Recently, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been widely used for enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). A core challenge in RLVR…

cs.CL2025

ICPC-Eval: Probing the Frontiers of LLM Reasoning with Competitive Programming Contests

Shiyi Xu, Yiwen Hu, Yingqian Min +3

With the significant progress of large reasoning models in complex coding and reasoning tasks, existing benchmarks, like LiveCodeBench and CodeElo, are insufficient to evaluate the…

cs.IR2025

LARES: Latent Reasoning for Sequential Recommendation

Enze Liu, Bowen Zheng, Xiaolei Wang +4

Sequential recommender systems have become increasingly important in real-world applications that model user behavior sequences to predict their preferences. However, existing sequ…

cs.CL2025

Towards Effective Code-Integrated Reasoning

Fei Bai, Yingqian Min, Beichen Zhang +6

In this paper, we investigate code-integrated reasoning, where models generate code when necessary and integrate feedback by executing it through a code interpreter. To acquire thi…

cs.IR2025

DeepRec: Towards a Deep Dive Into the Item Space with Large Language Model Based Recommendation

Bowen Zheng, Xiaolei Wang, Enze Liu +5

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been introduced into recommender systems (RSs), either to enhance traditional recommendation models (TRMs) or serve as recommendation ba…