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20242026
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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Safety for Whom? Boundary-Aware Self-Distillation for Controlled LLM Safety Refusal

Alejo López-Ávila, Iker García-Ferrero, Jezabel Garcia +2

Safety alignment is usually posed as a topic-level question: is this subject harmful? Deployments ask a narrower one. A civics tutor and a public-sector assistant may share a base…

cs.IR2025

A Survey on Large Language Models in Multimodal Recommender Systems

Alejo Lopez-Avila, Jinhua Du

Multimodal recommender systems (MRS) integrate heterogeneous user and item data, such as text, images, and structured information, to enhance recommendation performance. The emerge…

cs.CL2024

Combining Denoising Autoencoders with Contrastive Learning to fine-tune Transformer Models

Alejo Lopez-Avila, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua

Recently, using large pretrained Transformer models for transfer learning tasks has evolved to the point where they have become one of the flagship trends in the Natural Language P…

cs.CL2024

Encoder-Decoder Framework for Interactive Free Verses with Generation with Controllable High-Quality Rhyming

Tommaso Pasini, Alejo López-Ávila, Husam Quteineh +5

Composing poetry or lyrics involves several creative factors, but a challenging aspect of generation is the adherence to a more or less strict metric and rhyming pattern. To addres…

cs.IR2024

Positional encoding is not the same as context: A study on positional encoding for sequential recommendation

Alejo Lopez-Avila, Jinhua Du, Abbas Shimary +1

The rapid growth of streaming media and e-commerce has driven advancements in recommendation systems, particularly Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS). These systems employ use…