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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

MTRec: Learning to Align with User Preferences via Mental Reward Models

Mengchen Zhao, Yifan Gao, Yaqing Hou +5

Recommendation models are predominantly trained using implicit user feedback, since explicit feedback is often costly to obtain. However, implicit feedback, such as clicks, does no…

cs.IR2025

Process vs. Outcome Reward: Which is Better for Agentic RAG Reinforcement Learning

Wenlin Zhang, Xiangyang Li, Kuicai Dong +9

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the text generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge and up-to-date information. However…

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

SampleLLM: Optimizing Tabular Data Synthesis in Recommendations

Jingtong Gao, Zhaocheng Du, Xiaopeng Li +5

Tabular data synthesis is crucial in machine learning, yet existing general methods-primarily based on statistical or deep learning models-are highly data-dependent and often fall…

cs.IR2024

SyNeg: LLM-Driven Synthetic Hard-Negatives for Dense Retrieval

Xiaopeng Li, Xiangyang Li, Hao Zhang +6

The performance of Dense retrieval (DR) is significantly influenced by the quality of negative sampling. Traditional DR methods primarily depend on naive negative sampling techniqu…

cs.IR2024

LIBER: Lifelong User Behavior Modeling Based on Large Language Models

Chenxu Zhu, Shigang Quan, Bo Chen +7

CTR prediction plays a vital role in recommender systems. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been applied in recommender systems due to their emergence abilities. While le…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Prompt Tuning as User Inherent Profile Inference Machine

Yusheng Lu, Zhaocheng Du, Xiangyang Li +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited significant promise in recommender systems by empowering user profiles with their extensive world knowledge and superior reasoning capab…

cs.IR2024

LLM4MSR: An LLM-Enhanced Paradigm for Multi-Scenario Recommendation

Yuhao Wang, Yichao Wang, Zichuan Fu +4

As the demand for more personalized recommendation grows and a dramatic boom in commercial scenarios arises, the study on multi-scenario recommendation (MSR) has attracted much att…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

LLM4Rerank: LLM-based Auto-Reranking Framework for Recommendations

Jingtong Gao, Bo Chen, Weiwen Liu +6

Reranking is a critical component in recommender systems, playing an essential role in refining the output of recommendation algorithms. Traditional reranking models have focused p…

cs.IR2024

CELA: Cost-Efficient Language Model Alignment for CTR Prediction

Xingmei Wang, Weiwen Liu, Xiaolong Chen +8

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction holds a paramount position in recommender systems. The prevailing ID-based paradigm underperforms in cold-start scenarios due to the skewed dist…

cs.IR2024

LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations

Wenlin Zhang, Chuhan Wu, Xiangyang Li +7

The lack of training data gives rise to the system cold-start problem in recommendation systems, making them struggle to provide effective recommendations. To address this problem,…

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

A Unified Framework for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction via Large Language Models

Zichuan Fu, Xiangyang Li, Chuhan Wu +6

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in online recommendation platforms as it involves estimating the probability of user engagement with advertisements or items b…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

FLIP: Fine-grained Alignment between ID-based Models and Pretrained Language Models for CTR Prediction

Hangyu Wang, Jianghao Lin, Xiangyang Li +5

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays as a core function module in various personalized online services. The traditional ID-based models for CTR prediction take as inputs the o…

cs.IR2023★ 21 cited

How Can Recommender Systems Benefit from Large Language Models: A Survey

Jianghao Lin, Xinyi Dai, Yunjia Xi +11

With the rapid development of online services, recommender systems (RS) have become increasingly indispensable for mitigating information overload. Despite remarkable progress, con…

cs.IR2023★ 4 cited

CTRL: Connect Collaborative and Language Model for CTR Prediction

Xiangyang Li, Bo Chen, Lu Hou +1

Traditional click-through rate (CTR) prediction models convert the tabular data into one-hot vectors and leverage the collaborative relations among features for inferring the user'…