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Weaving Visual Narratives: Agentic Image Bundle Composition Beyond Atomic Visual Matching
Rong Shan, Tianyi Xu, Congmin Zheng +9
Image retrieval has traditionally been formulated as a point-wise matching problem, where each candidate image is scored in isolation. However, this atomic paradigm fails to captur…
Discrete Preference Learning for Personalized Multimodal Generation
Yuting Zhang, Ying Sun, Dazhong Shen +6
The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: l…
Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering
Chenyu Zhou, Huacan Chai, Wenteng Chen +18
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly built less by changing model weights than by reorganizing the runtime around them. Capabilities that earlier systems expected the…
OThink-SRR1: Search, Refine and Reasoning with Reinforced Learning for Large Language Models
Haijian Liang, Zenghao Niu, Junjie Wu +3
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) expands the knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet current static retrieval methods struggle with complex, multi-hop problems. While re…
Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Generalized Embedding Learning in Federated Recommendation
Fengyuan Yu, Xiaohua Feng, Yuyuan Li +3
Federated recommender systems enable collaborative model training while keeping user interaction data local and sharing only essential model parameters, thereby mitigating privacy…
Towards Motion Turing Test: Evaluating Human-Likeness in Humanoid Robots
Mingzhe Li, Mengyin Liu, Zekai Wu +9
Humanoid robots have achieved significant progress in motion generation and control, exhibiting movements that appear increasingly natural and human-like. Inspired by the Turing Te…
TSEmbed: Unlocking Task Scaling in Universal Multimodal Embeddings
Yebo Wu, Feng Liu, Ziwei Xie +4
Despite the exceptional reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), their adaptation into universal embedding models is significantly impeded by task confli…
PhotoBench: Beyond Visual Matching Towards Personalized Intent-Driven Photo Retrieval
Tianyi Xu, Rong Shan, Junjie Wu +11
Personal photo albums are not merely collections of static images but living, ecological archives defined by temporal continuity, social entanglement, and rich metadata, which make…
DeepImageSearch: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Context-Aware Image Retrieval in Visual Histories
Chenlong Deng, Mengjie Deng, Junjie Wu +10
Existing multimodal retrieval systems excel at semantic matching but implicitly assume that query-image relevance can be measured in isolation. This paradigm overlooks the rich dep…
OSCAR: Optimization-Steered Agentic Planning for Composed Image Retrieval
Teng Wang, Rong Shan, Jianghao Lin +8
Composed image retrieval (CIR) requires complex reasoning over heterogeneous visual and textual constraints. Existing approaches largely fall into two paradigms: unified embedding…
SpecTran: Spectral-Aware Transformer-based Adapter for LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Zhaoxiang Wang +4
Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) models learn low-dimensional item ID embeddings from user-item interactions, often overlooking textual information such as item titles or…
HatLLM: Hierarchical Attention Masking for Enhanced Collaborative Modeling in LLM-based Recommendation
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +6
Recent years have witnessed a surge of research on leveraging large language models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation. LLMs have demonstrated remarkable potential in inferring u…
Does LLM Focus on the Right Words? Mitigating Context Bias in LLM-based Recommenders
Bohao Wang, Jiawei Chen, Feng Liu +5
Large language models (LLMs), owing to their extensive open-domain knowledge and semantic reasoning capabilities, have been increasingly integrated into recommender systems (RS). H…
Proof-of-Use: Mitigating Tool-Call Hacking in Deep Research Agents
Shengjie Ma, SHengjie Ma, Chenlong Deng +6
While reinforcement learning (RL) enhances their ability to plan and reason across retrieval steps, we identify a critical failure mode in this setting: Tool-Call Hacking. Unlike e…
SAGE: Strategy-Adaptive Generation Engine for Query Rewriting
Teng Wang, Hailei Gong, Changwang Zhang +1
Query rewriting is pivotal for enhancing dense retrieval, yet current methods demand large-scale supervised data or suffer from inefficient reinforcement learning (RL) exploration.…
Efficient Agents: Building Effective Agents While Reducing Cost
Ningning Wang, Xavier Hu, Pai Liu +11
The remarkable capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM)-driven agents have enabled sophisticated systems to tackle complex, multi-step tasks, but their escalating costs threaten…
OAgents: An Empirical Study of Building Effective Agents
He Zhu, Tianrui Qin, King Zhu +21
Recently, Agentic AI has become an increasingly popular research field. However, we argue that current agent research practices lack standardization and scientific rigor, making it…
TaskCraft: Automated Generation of Agentic Tasks
Dingfeng Shi, Jingyi Cao, Qianben Chen +14
Agentic tasks, which require multi-step problem solving with autonomy, tool use, and adaptive reasoning, are becoming increasingly central to the advancement of NLP and AI. However…
Scaling Test-time Compute for LLM Agents
King Zhu, Hanhao Li, Siwei Wu +12
Scaling test time compute has shown remarkable success in improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). In this work, we conduct the first systematic explorati…
OThink-R1: Intrinsic Fast/Slow Thinking Mode Switching for Over-Reasoning Mitigation
Shengjia Zhang, Junjie Wu, Jiawei Chen +7
Human cognition operates through two complementary modes: fast intuitive thinking and slow deliberate thinking. Vanilla large language models (LLMs) predominantly follow the fast-t…
Field Matters: A Lightweight LLM-enhanced Method for CTR Prediction
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +6
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental task in modern recommender systems. In recent years, the integration of large language models (LLMs) has been shown to effectiv…
MSL: Not All Tokens Are What You Need for Tuning LLM as a Recommender
Bohao Wang, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +7
Large language models (LLMs), known for their comprehension capabilities and extensive knowledge, have been increasingly applied to recommendation systems (RS). Given the fundament…
OThink-MR1: Stimulating multimodal generalized reasoning capabilities via dynamic reinforcement learning
Zhiyuan Liu, Yuting Zhang, Feng Liu +3
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant traction for their ability to process diverse input data types and generate coherent, contextually relevant outputs…
MASTER: A Multi-Agent System with LLM Specialized MCTS
Bingzheng Gan, Yufan Zhao, Tianyi Zhang +5
Large Language Models (LLM) are increasingly being explored for problem-solving tasks. However, their strategic planning capability is often viewed with skepticism. Recent studies…