4 papers
Pathways of Thoughts: Multi-Directional Thinking for Long-form Personalized Question Answering
Alireza Salemi, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang +7
Personalization is well studied in search and recommendation, but personalized question answering remains underexplored due to challenges in inferring preferences from long, noisy,…
Reasoning-Enhanced Self-Training for Long-Form Personalized Text Generation
Alireza Salemi, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang +6
Personalized text generation requires a unique ability of large language models (LLMs) to learn from context that they often do not encounter during their standard training. One wa…
Unlocking the `Why' of Buying: Introducing a New Dataset and Benchmark for Purchase Reason and Post-Purchase Experience
Tao Chen, Siqi Zuo, Cheng Li +3
In business and marketing, analyzing the reasons behind buying is a fundamental step towards understanding consumer behaviors, shaping business strategies, and predicting market ou…
Creator Context for Tweet Recommendation
Spurthi Amba Hombaiah, Tao Chen, Mingyang Zhang +6
When discussing a tweet, people usually not only refer to the content it delivers, but also to the person behind the tweet. In other words, grounding the interpretation of the twee…