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EvoSkillRec: Skill-Genome Evolution for Recommender Architecture Discovery
Xiaopeng Li, Kuo Cai, Bo Chen +12
Modern recommender systems advance not only by scaling data and parameters, but also by encoding task-specific inductive biases through architecture, including sparse feature inter…
Inherit4Rec: Parameter Inheritance for Efficient Scaling of Recommendation Models
Ruihao Zhang, Bo Chen, Xiao Wang +8
Scaling model capacity has emerged as an effective approach to overcoming performance bottlenecks in industrial recommender systems. However, repeatedly training larger dense model…
Hierarchical Quantization with Domain-Adaptive Sparse Routing for Generative Cross-Domain Recommendation
Haiying He, Xiaopeng Li, Yuchen Gu +9
Generative Recommendation (GenRec) represents a promising paradigm that achieves remarkable empirical success by encoding items as compact Semantic IDs (SIDs) and modeling user beh…
RAGR: Review-Augmented Generative Recommendation
Yingyi Zhang, Junyi Li, Yejing Wang +8
Sequential recommendation (SR) is traditionally formulated as next-item prediction over chronological item interactions. Although recent generative recommendation (GR) methods intr…
Earth Science Foundation Models: From Perception to Reasoning and Discovery
Xiangyu Zhao, Bo Liu, Yuehan Zhang +9
Large foundation models (FMs) are transforming Earth science by integrating heterogeneous multimodal data, such as multi-platform imagery, gridded reanalysis data, diverse geophysi…
SkillBrew: Multi-Objective Curation of Skill Banks for LLM Agents
Wentao Hu, Zhendong Chu, Yiming Zhang +6
Retrieval-augmented LLM agents increasingly rely on curated skill banks: collections of reusable textual principles that guide decision making on complex tasks. Existing approaches…
FashionLens: Toward Versatile Fashion Image Retrieval via Task-Adaptive Learning
Haokun Wen, Xuemeng Song, Xinghao Xie +3
Fashion image retrieval is a cornerstone of modern e-commerce systems. A unified framework that supports diverse query formats and search intentions is highly desired in practice.…
Reinforced Preference Optimization for Reasoning-Augmented Recommendations
Jingtong Gao, Zeyu Song, Chi Lu +7
Recommender systems are critical for delivering personalized content across digital platforms, and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to enhanc…
Conditional Memory Enhanced Item Representation for Generative Recommendation
Ziwei Liu, Yejing Wang, Shengyu Zhou +2
Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm that predicts target items by autoregressively generating their semantic identifiers (SID). Most GR methods follo…
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…
UniRank: Unified List-wise Reranking via Confidence-Ordered Denoising
Pengyue Jia, Hailan Yang, Shuchang Liu +7
List-wise reranking arranges a request-specific pool of candidate items into an ordered slate that maximizes user satisfaction. Existing generative rerankers fall into two paradigm…
From Local Indices to Global Identifiers: Generative Reranking for Recommender Systems via Global Action Space
Pengyue Jia, Xiaobei Wang, Yingyi Zhang +14
In modern recommender systems, list-wise reranking serves as a critical phase within the multi-stage pipeline, finalizing the exposed item sequence and directly impacting user sati…
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…
To Search or Not to Search: Aligning the Decision Boundary of Deep Search Agents via Causal Intervention
Wenlin Zhang, Kuicai Dong, Junyi Li +9
Deep search agents, which autonomously iterate through multi-turn web-based reasoning, represent a promising paradigm for complex information-seeking tasks. However, current agents…
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…
RoSA: Enhancing Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via RoPE-aware Selective Adaptation in Large Language Models
Dayan Pan, Jingyuan Wang, Yilong Zhou +3
Fine-tuning large language models is essential for task-specific adaptation, yet it remains computationally prohibitive. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods have emerged…
Learning a Single Token to Replace Long System Prompts in LLMs
Jiancheng Dong, Pengyue Jia, Jingyu Peng +7
Long system prompts are widely used to steer Large Language Models (LLMs), but repeatedly processing them at inference time is inefficient and consumes valuable context budget. Thi…
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…
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…
From Single to Multi-Granularity: Toward Long-Term Memory Association and Selection of Conversational Agents
Derong Xu, Yi Wen, Pengyue Jia +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been widely adopted in conversational agents. However, the increasingly long interactions between users and agents accumulate extensive d…
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…
GeoRanker: Distance-Aware Ranking for Worldwide Image Geolocalization
Pengyue Jia, Seongheon Park, Song Gao +2
Worldwide image geolocalization-the task of predicting GPS coordinates from images taken anywhere on Earth-poses a fundamental challenge due to the vast diversity in visual content…
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…
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…