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most citedIncorporating External Knowledge and Goal Guidance for LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems

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13 papers

cs.SE2026

When Models Edit Too Much: On the Fidelity of Minimal Code Edits

Tongyao Zhu, Wei Hern Lim, Min-Yen Kan

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to edit existing code, but correctness alone is not enough: useful repairs should also be minimal, reviewable, and faithful to th…

cs.AI2025

KAHAN: Knowledge-Augmented Hierarchical Analysis and Narration for Financial Data Narration

Yajing Yang, Tony Deng, Min-Yen Kan

We propose KAHAN, a knowledge-augmented hierarchical framework that systematically extracts insights from raw tabular data at entity, pairwise, group, and system levels. KAHAN uniq…

cs.IR2025

Improving Conversational Recommendation with Contextual Adaptation of External Recommenders and LLM-based Reranking

Chuang Li, Weida Liang, Hengchang Hu +4

We tackle the challenge of integrating large language models (LLMs) with external recommender systems to enhance domain expertise in conversational recommendation (CRS). Current LL…

cs.CV2025

Seeing Through Deception: Uncovering Misleading Creator Intent in Multimodal News with Vision-Language Models

Jiaying Wu, Fanxiao Li, Zihang Fu +2

The impact of multimodal misinformation arises not only from factual inaccuracies but also from the misleading narratives that creators deliberately embed. Interpreting such creato…

cs.CL2025

SkyLadder: Better and Faster Pretraining via Context Window Scheduling

Tongyao Zhu, Qian Liu, Haonan Wang +4

Recent advancements in LLM pretraining have featured ever-expanding context windows to process longer sequences. However, our pilot study reveals that models pretrained with shorte…

cs.IR2025

Evaluating Sakana's AI Scientist: Bold Claims, Mixed Results, and a Promising Future?

Joeran Beel, Min-Yen Kan, Moritz Baumgart

A major step toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Super Intelligence is AI's ability to autonomously conduct research - what we term Artificial Research Intelligence (A…

cs.AI2024

DataTales: A Benchmark for Real-World Intelligent Data Narration

Yajing Yang, Qian Liu, Min-Yen Kan

We introduce DataTales, a novel benchmark designed to assess the proficiency of language models in data narration, a task crucial for transforming complex tabular data into accessi…

cs.CL2024

CCSBench: Evaluating Compositional Controllability in LLMs for Scientific Document Summarization

Yixi Ding, Jiaying Wu, Tongyao Zhu +3

To broaden the dissemination of scientific knowledge to diverse audiences, it is desirable for scientific document summarization systems to simultaneously control multiple attribut…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Incorporating External Knowledge and Goal Guidance for LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems

Chuang Li, Yang Deng, Hengchang Hu +2

This paper aims to efficiently enable large language models (LLMs) to use external knowledge and goal guidance in conversational recommender system (CRS) tasks. Advanced LLMs (e.g.…

cs.CL2024

ISQA: Informative Factuality Feedback for Scientific Summarization

Zekai Li, Yanxia Qin, Qian Liu +1

We propose Iterative Facuality Refining on Informative Scientific Question-Answering (ISQA) feedback\footnote{Code is available at \url{https://github.com/lizekai-richard/isqa}}, a…

cs.IR2024

Discrete Semantic Tokenization for Deep CTR Prediction

Qijiong Liu, Hengchang Hu, Jiahao Wu +3

Incorporating item content information into click-through rate (CTR) prediction models remains a challenge, especially with the time and space constraints of industrial scenarios.…

cs.CL2024

Beyond Memorization: The Challenge of Random Memory Access in Language Models

Tongyao Zhu, Qian Liu, Liang Pang +3

Recent developments in Language Models (LMs) have shown their effectiveness in NLP tasks, particularly in knowledge-intensive tasks. However, the mechanisms underlying knowledge st…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Lightweight Modality Adaptation to Sequential Recommendation via Correlation Supervision

Hengchang Hu, Qijiong Liu, Chuang Li +1

In Sequential Recommenders (SR), encoding and utilizing modalities in an end-to-end manner is costly in terms of modality encoder sizes. Two-stage approaches can mitigate such conc…