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most citedCapturing Popularity Trends: A Simplistic Non-Personalized Approach for Enhanced Item Recommendation

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

From Dissonance to Orchestration: Teacher Intervention in On-Policy Distillation

Yuhao Wang, Ruiyang Ren, Yinan Zhang +3

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own reasoning trajectories using feedback from a stronger teacher. Teacher interventions can improve these trajectories, but al…

cs.IR2026

Bringing GRACE to Recommendation: Fine-Tuning for Sustainable and Accurate Personalization

Yibowen Zhao, Yinan Zhang, Ning Liu +2

Growing concern about environmental sustainability (e.g., reducing carbon emissions and resource use) and public health has motivated ``green'' recommender systems that steer users…

cs.AI2026

Emulating Clinician Cognition via Self-Evolving Deep Clinical Research

Ruiyang Ren, Yuhao Wang, Yunsen Liang +8

Clinical diagnosis is a complex cognitive process, grounded in dynamic cue acquisition and continuous expertise accumulation. Yet most current artificial intelligence (AI) systems…

cs.IR2026

Following the TRAIL: Predicting and Explaining Tomorrow's Hits with a Fine-Tuned LLM

Yinan Zhang, Zhixi Chen, Jiazheng Jing +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely applied across multiple domains for their broad knowledge and strong reasoning capabilities. However, applying them to recommendation…

cs.AI2025

Beyond Traditional Diagnostics: Transforming Patient-Side Information into Predictive Insights with Knowledge Graphs and Prototypes

Yibowen Zhao, Yinan Zhang, Zhixiang Su +2

Predicting diseases solely from patient-side information, such as demographics and self-reported symptoms, has attracted significant research attention due to its potential to enha…

cs.IR2025

Bites of Tomorrow: Personalized Recommendations for a Healthier and Greener Plate

Jiazheng Jing, Yinan Zhang, Chunyan Miao

The recent emergence of extreme climate events has significantly raised awareness about sustainable living. In addition to developing energy-saving materials and technologies, exis…

cs.IR2025

Does Multimodality Improve Recommender Systems as Expected? A Critical Analysis and Future Directions

Hongyu Zhou, Yinan Zhang, Aixin Sun +1

Multimodal recommendation systems are increasingly popular for their potential to improve performance by integrating diverse data types. However, the actual benefits of this integr…

cs.CL2024

Enabling Patient-side Disease Prediction via the Integration of Patient Narratives

Zhixiang Su, Yinan Zhang, Jiazheng Jing +2

Disease prediction holds considerable significance in modern healthcare, because of its crucial role in facilitating early intervention and implementing effective prevention measur…

cs.IR2023★ 9 cited

Capturing Popularity Trends: A Simplistic Non-Personalized Approach for Enhanced Item Recommendation

Jiazheng Jing, Yinan Zhang, Xin Zhou +1

Recommender systems have been gaining increasing research attention over the years. Most existing recommendation methods focus on capturing users' personalized preferences through…

cs.IR2022★ 2 cited

Minimalist and High-performance Conversational Recommendation with Uncertainty Estimation for User Preference

Yinan Zhang, Boyang Li, Yong Liu +2

Conversational recommendation system (CRS) is emerging as a user-friendly way to capture users' dynamic preferences over candidate items and attributes. Multi-shot CRS is designed…

cs.IR2021★ 9 cited

Initialization Matters: Regularizing Manifold-informed Initialization for Neural Recommendation Systems

Yinan Zhang, Boyang Li, Yong Liu +2

Proper initialization is crucial to the optimization and the generalization of neural networks. However, most existing neural recommendation systems initialize the user and item em…