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Making Collaborative Signals Count: Graph-Aware Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation
Fenglin Yan, Bohao Wang, Jian Zhang +5
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted as backbones for recommender systems. However, their language-centric pretraining makes it difficult to capture collaborative…
SmartGR: Hierarchy and Beam-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Generative Recommendation
Ziheng Zhang, Yu Cui, Bohao Wang +6
Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for recommender systems. Scaling up GR models can improve recommendation performance, but it also substantially i…
SpecFormer: Mitigating Embedding and Attention Collapse via Spectral-Aware Transformer for Recommendation
Yu Cui, Yi Xu, Jiahao Wang +6
Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains; however, directly applying their standard self-attention mechanism to recommendation often yields…
IMFuse: Instance-Aware Multi-Layer Fusion for LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
Yuheng Zheng, Yu Cui, Bin Wu +4
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced sequential recommendation by encoding rich item textual information into semantic representations. H…
LBR: Towards Mitigating Length Bias in Large Language Models for Recommendation
Hongchen Li, Bohao Wang, Jingbang Chen +5
Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful backbones for recommender systems by reformulating recommendation as a token-level generation task. Despite their pro…
The Pitfall of Scaling Up: Uncovering and Mitigating Popularity Bias Amplification in Scaling Transformer-based Recommenders
Weiqin Yang, Yue Pan, Chongming Gao +4
We identify a critical pitfall in scaling transformer-based sequential recommenders: while increasing model size improves recommendation accuracy, it simultaneously amplifies popul…
Temporal Motif-aware Graph Test-time Adaptation for OOD Blockchain Anomaly Detection
Runang He, Tongya Zheng, Huiling Peng +6
Ever-evolving transaction patterns have significantly hindered anomaly detection on emerging cryptocurrency blockchains due to the vast number of addresses and diverse anomalous be…
Scalable Algorithm for Dynamic Quasi-clique Detection
Jingbang Chen, Weinuo Li, Yingli Zhou +4
Identifying dense subgraphs known as quasi-cliques is pivotal in numerous graph mining tasks across domains such as social networks, biology, and e-commerce. While prior work has d…
Finding the Balance Rate of Uncertain Signed Graphs
Zeyu Wang, Kudria Sergei, Jingbang Chen +4
Signed graphs are widely used to analyze complex systems such as social, political, and biological networks. The notion of balance, a key concept of signed graphs, reflects the sta…
Informative Graph Structure Learning
Shen Han, Zhiyao Zhou, Jiawei Chen +6
The quality of graph-structured data is fundamental to the success of modern graph analysis techniques such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, real-world graph data is often…
Trie-Aware Transformers for Generative Recommendation
Zhenxiang Xu, Jiawei Chen, Sirui Chen +5
Generative recommendation (GR) aligns with advances in generative AI by casting next-item prediction as token-level generation rather than score-based ranking. Most GR methods adop…
TopKGAT: A Top-K Objective-Driven Architecture for Recommendation
Sirui Chen, Jiawei Chen, Canghong Jin +4
Recommendation systems (RS) aim to retrieve the top-K items most relevant to users, with metrics such as Precision@K and Recall@K commonly used to assess effectiveness. The archite…
BEAR: Towards Beam-Search-Aware Optimization for Recommendation with Large Language Models
Weiqin Yang, Bohao Wang, Zhenxiang Xu +5
Recent years have seen a rapid surge in research leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for recommendation. These methods typically employ supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to adapt LL…
SpecTran: Spectral-Aware Transformer-based Adapter for LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Zhaoxiang Wang +4
Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) models learn low-dimensional item ID embeddings from user-item interactions, often overlooking textual information such as item titles or…
ReCreate: Reasoning and Creating Domain Agents Driven by Experience
Zhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Jian Luo +6
Large Language Model (LLM) agents are reshaping the industrial landscape. However, most practical agents still rely on human-designed scaffolds, making their creation and adaptatio…
HatLLM: Hierarchical Attention Masking for Enhanced Collaborative Modeling in LLM-based Recommendation
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +6
Recent years have witnessed a surge of research on leveraging large language models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation. LLMs have demonstrated remarkable potential in inferring u…
Does LLM Focus on the Right Words? Mitigating Context Bias in LLM-based Recommenders
Bohao Wang, Jiawei Chen, Feng Liu +5
Large language models (LLMs), owing to their extensive open-domain knowledge and semantic reasoning capabilities, have been increasingly integrated into recommender systems (RS). H…
Rethinking Entropy Interventions in RLVR: An Entropy Change Perspective
Zhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Haoyang Liu +6
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) serves as a cornerstone technique for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, its train…
Evaluating Large Language Models for Evidence-Based Clinical Question Answering
Can Wang, Yiqun Chen
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated substantial progress in biomedical and clinical applications, motivating rigorous evaluation of their ability to answer nuanced, evid…
Breaking the Top- Barrier: Advancing Top- Ranking Metrics Optimization in Recommender Systems
Weiqin Yang, Jiawei Chen, Shengjia Zhang +5
In the realm of recommender systems (RS), Top- ranking metrics such as NDCG@ are the gold standard for evaluating recommendation performance. However, during the training of…
Advancing Loss Functions in Recommender Systems: A Comparative Study with a Rényi Divergence-Based Solution
Shengjia Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Changdong Li +5
Loss functions play a pivotal role in optimizing recommendation models. Among various loss functions, Softmax Loss (SL) and Cosine Contrastive Loss (CCL) are particularly effective…
GUI-Robust: A Comprehensive Dataset for Testing GUI Agent Robustness in Real-World Anomalies
Jingqi Yang, Zhilong Song, Jiawei Chen +6
The development of high-quality datasets is crucial for benchmarking and advancing research in Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents. Despite their importance, existing datasets ar…
OThink-R1: Intrinsic Fast/Slow Thinking Mode Switching for Over-Reasoning Mitigation
Shengjia Zhang, Junjie Wu, Jiawei Chen +7
Human cognition operates through two complementary modes: fast intuitive thinking and slow deliberate thinking. Vanilla large language models (LLMs) predominantly follow the fast-t…
Field Matters: A Lightweight LLM-enhanced Method for CTR Prediction
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +6
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental task in modern recommender systems. In recent years, the integration of large language models (LLMs) has been shown to effectiv…