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20222026
most citedQuantifying and Mitigating Popularity Bias in Conversational Recommender Systems

41 citations · 47 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Macaron-V1: Towards Open Continual Learning with Self-Improvement and Mixture-of-LoRA

Mind Lab, :, Vin Bo +80

Macaron-V1 is an open agent-model family for experiential intelligence: learning from experience in real environments and continuing to learn after deployment. It is organized arou…

cs.LG2026

On the Scaling of PEFT: Towards Million Personal Models of Trillion Parameters

Mind Lab, :, Vin Bo +64

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is usually treated as a cheaper alternative to full fine-tuning. We study a broader role: small trainable adapters as persistent local state…

cs.IR2025

DMRetriever: A Family of Models for Improved Text Retrieval in Disaster Management

Kai Yin, Xiangjue Dong, Chengkai Liu +4

Effective and efficient access to relevant information is essential for disaster management. However, no retrieval model is specialized for disaster management, and existing genera…

cs.IR2025

Towards An Efficient LLM Training Paradigm for CTR Prediction

Allen Lin, Renqin Cai, Yun He +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated tremendous potential as the next-generation ranking-based recommendation system. Many recent works have shown that LLMs can significa…

cs.IR2025

Federated Conversational Recommender System

Allen Lin, Jianling Wang, Ziwei Zhu +1

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have become increasingly popular as a powerful tool for providing personalized recommendation experiences. By directly engaging with users…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

Cold-Start Recommendation towards the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs): A Comprehensive Survey and Roadmap

Weizhi Zhang, Yuanchen Bei, Liangwei Yang +15

Cold-start problem is one of the long-standing challenges in recommender systems, focusing on accurately modeling new or interaction-limited users or items to provide better recomm…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Countering Mainstream Bias via End-to-End Adaptive Local Learning

Jinhao Pan, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang +2

Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommendations suffer from mainstream bias -- where mainstream users are favored over niche users, leading to poor recommendation quality for ma…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Enhancing User Personalization in Conversational Recommenders

Allen Lin, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang +1

Conversational recommenders are emerging as a powerful tool to personalize a user's recommendation experience. Through a back-and-forth dialogue, users can quickly hone in on just…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Towards Fair Conversational Recommender Systems

Allen Lin, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang +1

Conversational recommender systems have demonstrated great success. They can accurately capture a user's current detailed preference -- through a multi-round interaction cycle -- t…

cs.IR2022★ 41 cited

Quantifying and Mitigating Popularity Bias in Conversational Recommender Systems

Allen Lin, Jianling Wang, Ziwei Zhu +1

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have shown great success in accurately capturing a user's current and detailed preference through the multi-round interaction cycle while e…