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most citedCollaborative Large Language Model for Recommender Systems

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cs.IR2026

GenRec: An LLM-Backed Recommendation Ranker at Netflix

Ying Li, Shradha Sehgal, Arjun Rao +3

Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping recommender systems by enabling richer modeling of users, content, and context directly in natural language. At Netflix, we are exploring…

cs.IR2026

Mult-DPO: Multinomial Direct Preference Optimization for Recommender Systems

Yaochen Zhu, Harald Steck, James McInerney +4

Direct preference optimization (DPO) is a simple and effective alignment strategy for large language models (LLMs) based on pairwise preferences. In recommender systems, however, u…

cs.IR2025

Rank-GRPO: Training LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems with Reinforcement Learning

Yaochen Zhu, Harald Steck, Dawen Liang +4

Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the recommender system paradigm by enabling users to express preferences and receive recommendations through conversations. Yet, aligning…

cs.IR2025

Collaborative Retrieval for Large Language Model-based Conversational Recommender Systems

Yaochen Zhu, Chao Wan, Harald Steck +4

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide personalized recommendations via interactive dialogues with users. While large language models (LLMs) enhance CRS with their…

cs.IR2025★ 3 cited

Collaborative Diffusion Model for Recommender System

Gyuseok Lee, Yaochen Zhu, Hwanjo Yu +2

Diffusion-based recommender systems (DR) have gained increasing attention for their advanced generative and denoising capabilities. However, existing DR face two central limitation…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Understanding and Modeling Job Marketplace with Pretrained Language Models

Yaochen Zhu, Liang Wu, Binchi Zhang +5

Job marketplace is a heterogeneous graph composed of interactions among members (job-seekers), companies, and jobs. Understanding and modeling job marketplace can benefit both job…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

Consistency and Discrepancy-Based Contrastive Tripartite Graph Learning for Recommendations

Linxin Guo, Yaochen Zhu, Min Gao +3

Tripartite graph-based recommender systems markedly diverge from traditional models by recommending unique combinations such as user groups and item bundles. Despite their effectiv…

cs.IR2023★ 98 cited

Collaborative Large Language Model for Recommender Systems

Yaochen Zhu, Liang Wu, Qi Guo +2

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing the next-generation recommender systems (RSs) based on pretrained large language models (LLMs). However, the semantic gap be…