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cs.IR2025

Denoising Neural Reranker for Recommender Systems

Wenyu Mao, Shuchang Liu, Hailan Yang +9

For multi-stage recommenders in industry, a user request would first trigger a simple and efficient retriever module that selects and ranks a list of relevant items, then the recom…

cs.IR2025

Who You Are Matters: Bridging Topics and Social Roles via LLM-Enhanced Logical Recommendation

Qing Yu, Xiaobei Wang, Shuchang Liu +14

Recommender systems filter contents/items valuable to users by inferring preferences from user features and historical behaviors. Mainstream approaches follow the learning-to-rank…

cs.IR2025★ 3 cited

Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking

Hailan Yang, Zhenyu Qi, Shuchang Liu +6

Reranking models solve the final recommendation lists that best fulfill users' demands. While existing solutions focus on finding parametric models that approximate optimal policie…

cs.IR2025

Explicit Uncertainty Modeling for Video Watch Time Prediction

Shanshan Wu, Shuchang Liu, Shuai Zhang +4

In video recommendation, a critical component that determines the system's recommendation accuracy is the watch-time prediction module, since how long a user watches a video direct…

cs.IR2025

Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation

Wenyu Mao, Shuchang Liu, Haoyang Liu +3

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as promising approaches for sequential recommendation due to their strong ability to model data distributions and generate high-quality items. E…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Value Function Decomposition in Markov Recommendation Process

Xiaobei Wang, Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai +4

Recent advances in recommender systems have shown that user-system interaction essentially formulates long-term optimization problems, and online reinforcement learning can be adop…

cs.IR2025

Future-Conditioned Recommendations with Multi-Objective Controllable Decision Transformer

Chongming Gao, Kexin Huang, Ziang Fei +6

Securing long-term success is the ultimate aim of recommender systems, demanding strategies capable of foreseeing and shaping the impact of decisions on future user satisfaction. C…

cs.IR2024

LLM-Powered User Simulator for Recommender System

Zijian Zhang, Shuchang Liu, Ziru Liu +6

User simulators can rapidly generate a large volume of timely user behavior data, providing a testing platform for reinforcement learning-based recommender systems, thus accelerati…

cs.IR2024

Coarse-to-fine Dynamic Uplift Modeling for Real-time Video Recommendation

Chang Meng, Chenhao Zhai, Xueliang Wang +6

With the rise of short video platforms, video recommendation technology faces more complex challenges. Currently, there are multiple non-personalized modules in the video recommend…

cs.IR2024

DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems

Jiaju Chen, Chongming Gao, Shuai Yuan +3

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into recommender systems has led to substantial performance improvements. However, this often comes at the cost of diminished recomm…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

Modeling User Retention through Generative Flow Networks

Ziru Liu, Shuchang Liu, Bin Yang +7

Recommender systems aim to fulfill the user's daily demands. While most existing research focuses on maximizing the user's engagement with the system, it has recently been pointed…

cs.IR2024★ 25 cited

M3oE: Multi-Domain Multi-Task Mixture-of Experts Recommendation Framework

Zijian Zhang, Shuchang Liu, Jiaao Yu +9

Multi-domain recommendation and multi-task recommendation have demonstrated their effectiveness in leveraging common information from different domains and objectives for comprehen…

cs.IR2024★ 23 cited

Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention

Ziru Liu, Shuchang Liu, Zijian Zhang +6

In the landscape of Recommender System (RS) applications, reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a powerful tool, primarily due to its proficiency in optimizing long-t…

cs.IR2024★ 9 cited

Future Impact Decomposition in Request-level Recommendations

Xiaobei Wang, Shuchang Liu, Xueliang Wang +6

In recommender systems, reinforcement learning solutions have shown promising results in optimizing the interaction sequence between users and the system over the long-term perform…

cs.IR2023★ 8 cited

KuaiSim: A Comprehensive Simulator for Recommender Systems

Kesen Zhao, Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai +5

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based recommender systems (RSs) have garnered considerable attention due to their ability to learn optimal recommendation policies and maximize long-ter…

cs.IR2023★ 7 cited

A Large Language Model Enhanced Conversational Recommender System

Yue Feng, Shuchang Liu, Zhenghai Xue +5

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to recommend high-quality items to users through a dialogue interface. It usually contains multiple sub-tasks, such as user preference…

cs.IR2023★ 18 cited

Generative Flow Network for Listwise Recommendation

Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai, Zhankui He +5

Personalized recommender systems fulfill the daily demands of customers and boost online businesses. The goal is to learn a policy that can generate a list of items that matches th…

cs.IR2023★ 45 cited

Multi-Task Recommendations with Reinforcement Learning

Ziru Liu, Jiejie Tian, Qingpeng Cai +8

In recent years, Multi-task Learning (MTL) has yielded immense success in Recommender System (RS) applications. However, current MTL-based recommendation models tend to disregard t…

cs.IR2023★ 41 cited

Exploration and Regularization of the Latent Action Space in Recommendation

Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai, Bowen Sun +7

In recommender systems, reinforcement learning solutions have effectively boosted recommendation performance because of their ability to capture long-term user-system interaction.…

cs.IR2022★ 3 cited

PrefRec: Recommender Systems with Human Preferences for Reinforcing Long-term User Engagement

Wanqi Xue, Qingpeng Cai, Zhenghai Xue +6

Current advances in recommender systems have been remarkably successful in optimizing immediate engagement. However, long-term user engagement, a more desirable performance metric,…