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most citedLarge Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation

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cs.AI2026

Learning to Accumulate Knowledge with Mutual Information

Yuyang Zhao, Lizi Liao, Leyang Shen +4

Large language model (LLM) agents can improve their performance by reusing knowledge distilled from past interactions. However, curating new experiences into a knowledge bank that…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Verbalized Confidence: Calibrating Reasoners with Differentiable Readouts

Chenxiao Fan, Chongming Gao, Gangyi Zhang +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) trains reasoning models to produce correct answers, but does not ensure that their stated confidence is calibrated. The result…

cs.IR2026

Self-Evolving Memory for Generative Recommendation

Xinyu Lin, Zhuosong Jiang, Zixiao Suo +12

Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising end-to-end paradigm for personalized recommendation. However, user preferences continuously evolve over time, making self-evolv…

cs.CL2026

PrefReward: Learning User Preference Matrix for Personalized Text Generation

Yue Wu, Chengbing Wang, Yimeng Bai +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable ability in generating personalized content by leveraging user histories and contextual cues. However, most existing person…

cs.IR2026

RECAP: Feedback-Driven Streaming Semantic User Profiles for Short-Video Recommendation

Ziyi Zhao, Xiaoyou Zhou, Xiao Lv +13

Language-based user profiles convert long behavioral histories into explicit semantic representations for recommendation. However, most profile generators are optimized in an open…

cs.AI2026

PAFO: Pareto Fairness Optimization for Personalized Reward Modeling

Xiaoyan Zhao, Haoting Ni, Yang Zhang +3

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on reward models to align their outputs with diverse user preferences. While personalized reward models aim to capture such heterogen…

cs.AI2026

Scale over Preference: The Impact of AI-Generated Content on Online Content Ecology

Tianhao Shi, Yang Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhao +8

The rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) is fundamentally restructuring online content ecologies, necessitating a rigorous examination of its beh…

cs.AI2026

AJ-Bench: Benchmarking Agent-as-a-Judge for Environment-Aware Evaluation

Wentao Shi, Yu Wang, Yuyang Zhao +8

As reinforcement learning continues to scale the training of large language model-based agents, reliably verifying agent behaviors in complex environments has become increasingly c…

cs.IR2026

Uncertainty-aware Generative Recommendation

Chenxiao Fan, Chongming Gao, Yaxin Gong +3

Generative Recommendation has emerged as a transformative paradigm, reformulating recommendation as an end-to-end autoregressive sequence generation task. Despite its promise, exis…

cs.IR2026

Towards Sample-Efficient and Stable Reinforcement Learning for LLM-based Recommendation

Hongxun Ding, Keqin Bao, Jizhi Zhang +4

While Long Chain-of-Thought (Long CoT) reasoning has shown promise in Large Language Models (LLMs), its adoption for enhancing recommendation quality is growing rapidly. In this wo…

cs.CL2026

Don't Start Over: A Cost-Effective Framework for Migrating Personalized Prompts Between LLMs

Ziyi Zhao, Chongming Gao, Yang Zhang +5

Personalization in Large Language Models (LLMs) often relies on user-specific soft prompts. However, these prompts become obsolete when the foundation model is upgraded, necessitat…

cs.AI2025

TROJail: Trajectory-Level Optimization for Multi-Turn Large Language Model Jailbreaks with Process Rewards

Xiqiao Xiong, Ouxiang Li, Zhuo Liu +5

Large language models have seen widespread adoption, yet they remain vulnerable to multi-turn jailbreak attacks, threatening their safe deployment. This has led to the task of trai…

cs.CL2025

Think-While-Generating: On-the-Fly Reasoning for Personalized Long-Form Generation

Chengbing Wang, Yang Zhang, Wenjie Wang +4

Preference alignment has enabled large language models (LLMs) to better reflect human expectations, but current methods mostly optimize for population-level preferences, overlookin…

cs.CL2025

SteerX: Disentangled Steering for LLM Personalization

Xiaoyan Zhao, Ming Yan, Yilun Qiu +5

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success in recent years, enabling a wide range of applications, including intelligent assistants that support users' daily life a…

cs.IR2025

Bi-Level Optimization for Generative Recommendation: Bridging Tokenization and Generation

Yimeng Bai, Chang Liu, Yang Zhang +5

Generative recommendation is emerging as a transformative paradigm by directly generating recommended items, rather than relying on matching. Building such a system typically invol…

cs.IR2025

Decoding in Latent Spaces for Efficient Inference in LLM-based Recommendation

Chengbing Wang, Yang Zhang, Zhicheng Wang +4

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for recommendation in a generative manner has delivered promising results, but encounters significant inference overhead due to autoregress…

cs.AI2025

AppAgent-Pro: A Proactive GUI Agent System for Multidomain Information Integration and User Assistance

Yuyang Zhao, Wentao Shi, Fuli Feng +1

Large language model (LLM)-based agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in addressing complex tasks, thereby enabling more advanced information retrieval and supporting d…

cs.IR2025

Generative Multi-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation

Jinqiu Jin, Yang Zhang, Fuli Feng +1

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in Multi-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation (MTCDR), which aims to enhance recommendation performance across multiple domains simultane…

cs.CL2025

Teaching LLM to Reason: Reinforcement Learning from Algorithmic Problems without Code

Keqin Bao, Nuo Chen, Xiaoyuan Li +5

Enhancing reasoning capabilities remains a central focus in the LLM reasearch community. A promising direction involves requiring models to simulate code execution step-by-step to…

cs.IR2025

Boosting Parameter Efficiency in LLM-Based Recommendation through Sophisticated Pruning

Shanle Zheng, Keqin Bao, Jizhi Zhang +3

LLM-based recommender systems have made significant progress; however, the deployment cost associated with the large parameter volume of LLMs still hinders their real-world applica…

cs.CL2025

Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalization

Yilun Qiu, Tianhao Shi, Xiaoyan Zhao +3

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into users' daily lives, leading to a growing demand for personalized outputs. Previous work focuses on leveraging a user's…

cs.IR2025

Brownian Bridge Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation

Yimeng Bai, Yang Zhang, Sihao Ding +5

Diffusion models, known for their strong generative capability derived from iterative noising and denoising processes, have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for sequential…

cs.IR2025

DiscRec: Disentangled Semantic-Collaborative Modeling for Generative Recommendation

Chang Liu, Yimeng Bai, Xiaoyan Zhao +3

Generative recommendation is emerging as a powerful paradigm that directly generates item predictions, moving beyond traditional matching-based approaches. However, current methods…

cs.IR2025

K-order Ranking Preference Optimization for Large Language Models

Shihao Cai, Chongming Gao, Yang Zhang +5

To adapt large language models (LLMs) to ranking tasks, existing list-wise methods, represented by list-wise Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), focus on optimizing partial-order…