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most citedA Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent

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cs.IR2026

From Raw IDs to Semantic Planning: How Recommender Systems Utilize Information at Scale

Changhong Jin, Shiqiu Yang, Roger Zhe Li +8

The evolution of recommender systems can be explored by asking how they utilize information at scale. Throughout most of the historical period under consideration during the past t…

cs.IR2026

Towards Fast Domain Adaptation and Fine-Grained User Simulation for Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems

Yuanzi Li, Quanyu Dai, Xueyang Feng +5

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) enhance user experience through multi-turn interactions, yet evaluating their performance remains challenging. While Large Language Model…

cs.IR2026

Personalized Deep Research: A User-Centric Framework, Dataset, and Hybrid Evaluation for Knowledge Discovery

Xiaopeng Li, Wenlin Zhang, Yingyi Zhang +6

Deep Research agents driven by LLMs have automated the scholarly discovery pipeline, from planning and query formulation to iterative web exploration. Yet they remain constrained b…

cs.IR2026

Evoking User Memory: Personalizing LLM via Recollection-Familiarity Adaptive Retrieval

Yingyi Zhang, Junyi Li, Wenlin Zhang +8

Personalized large language models (LLMs) rely on memory retrieval to incorporate user-specific histories, preferences, and contexts. Existing approaches either overload the LLM by…

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.IR2026

Exploring Recommender System Evaluation: A Multi-Modal User Agent Framework for A/B Testing

Wenlin Zhang, Xiangyang Li, Qiyuan Ge +9

In recommender systems, online A/B testing is a crucial method for evaluating the performance of different models. However, conducting online A/B testing often presents significant…

cs.IR2025

FuXi-: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism

Dezhi Yi, Wei Guo, Wenyang Cui +5

Sequential recommendation aims to model users' evolving preferences based on their historical interactions. Recent advances leverage Transformer-based architectures to capture glob…

cs.IR2025

Personalize Before Retrieve: LLM-based Personalized Query Expansion for User-Centric Retrieval

Yingyi Zhang, Pengyue Jia, Derong Xu +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) critically depends on effective query expansion to retrieve relevant information. However, existing expansion methods adopt uniform strategies…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Deep Research: A Survey of Autonomous Research Agents

Wenlin Zhang, Xiaopeng Li, Yingyi Zhang +5

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has driven the development of agentic systems capable of autonomously performing complex tasks. Despite their impressive capab…

cs.IR2025

FuXi-β: Towards a Lightweight and Fast Large-Scale Generative Recommendation Model

Yufei Ye, Wei Guo, Hao Wang +7

Scaling laws for autoregressive generative recommenders reveal potential for larger, more versatile systems but mean greater latency and training costs. To accelerate training and…

cs.CL2025

Align-GRAG: Anchor and Rationale Guided Dual Alignment for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Derong Xu, Pengyue Jia, Xiaopeng Li +9

Despite the strong abilities, large language models (LLMs) still suffer from hallucinations and reliance on outdated knowledge, raising concerns in knowledge-intensive tasks. Graph…

cs.IR2025

LSRP: A Leader-Subordinate Retrieval Framework for Privacy-Preserving Cloud-Device Collaboration

Yingyi Zhang, Pengyue Jia, Xianneng Li +8

Cloud-device collaboration leverages on-cloud Large Language Models (LLMs) for handling public user queries and on-device Small Language Models (SLMs) for processing private user d…

cs.IR2025

Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model

Luankang Zhang, Kenan Song, Yi Quan Lee +7

In recommendation systems, the traditional multi-stage paradigm, which includes retrieval and ranking, often suffers from information loss between stages and diminishes performance…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

From Human Memory to AI Memory: A Survey on Memory Mechanisms in the Era of LLMs

Yaxiong Wu, Sheng Liang, Chen Zhang +5

Memory is the process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information, allowing humans to retain experiences, knowledge, skills, and facts over time, and serving as the foundation…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

A Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent

Xiaopeng Li, Pengyue Jia, Derong Xu +11

Personalization has become an essential capability in modern AI systems, enabling customized interactions that align with individual user preferences, contexts, and goals. Recent r…

cs.IR2025

Generative Large Recommendation Models: Emerging Trends in LLMs for Recommendation

Hao Wang, Wei Guo, Luankang Zhang +7

In the era of information overload, recommendation systems play a pivotal role in filtering data and delivering personalized content. Recent advancements in feature interaction and…

cs.IR2025

LLM4Tag: Automatic Tagging System for Information Retrieval via Large Language Models

Ruiming Tang, Chenxu Zhu, Bo Chen +4

Tagging systems play an essential role in various information retrieval applications such as search engines and recommender systems. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have bee…

cs.IR2024

Scaling New Frontiers: Insights into Large Recommendation Models

Wei Guo, Hao Wang, Luankang Zhang +16

Recommendation systems are essential for filtering data and retrieving relevant information across various applications. Recent advancements have seen these systems incorporate inc…

cs.AI2024

Optimizing Sequential Recommendation Models with Scaling Laws and Approximate Entropy

Tingjia Shen, Hao Wang, Chuhan Wu +7

Scaling Laws have emerged as a powerful framework for understanding how model performance evolves as they increase in size, providing valuable insights for optimizing computational…

cs.IR2024

All Roads Lead to Rome: Unveiling the Trajectory of Recommender Systems Across the LLM Era

Bo Chen, Xinyi Dai, Huifeng Guo +9

Recommender systems (RS) are vital for managing information overload and delivering personalized content, responding to users' diverse information needs. The emergence of large lan…

cs.IR2024

Helen: Optimizing CTR Prediction Models with Frequency-wise Hessian Eigenvalue Regularization

Zirui Zhu, Yong Liu, Zangwei Zheng +2

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction holds paramount significance in online advertising and recommendation scenarios. Despite the proliferation of recent CTR prediction models, the…