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Towards Faithful Simulation of Human Shopping Behavior
Jiakai Tang, Yan Mi, Jing Yu +9
Simulating realistic user shopping behavior underpins offline evaluation and reinforcement learning in e-commerce scenarios. While recent LLM- and VLM-based simulators have made en…
Learning from the Future: Privileged Self-Distillation for Sequential Recommendation
Jiakai Tang, Yang Zhang, See-Kiong Ng +4
Sequential recommenders are commonly trained with one-hot next-item labels under a causal (prefix-only) objective aligned with inference. While deployment-compatible, this supervis…
Self-Evolving World Models for LLM Agent Planning
Xuan Zhang, Wenxuan Zhang, See-Kiong Ng +1
World models offer a principled way to equip long-horizon LLM agents with foresight: predictions of action consequences before execution. However, unreliable foresight can be ignor…
Dynamic Spectral Denoising with Global-Context Attention for Multi-Behavior Recommendation
Miaomiao Cai, Yunshan Ma, Fangqi Zhu +5
Multi-behavior recommendation improves target-behavior prediction by exploiting heterogeneous auxiliary feedback (e.g., view, collect, and cart), yet its robustness is undermined b…
FineVerify: Scaling Test-Time Compute with Fine-Grained Self-Verification for Agentic Search
James Xu Zhao, Hui Chen, Bryan Hooi +1
Agentic search requires language model agents to explore many sources and answer complex information-seeking questions. Scaling test-time compute is a promising way to improve thes…
Mixture-of-Experts Knowledge Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-Agent LLM-based Recommendation
Shijie Wang, Chengyi Liu, Yujuan Ding +4
Large language models (LLMs) have recently been adopted for recommendations due to their ability to understand user intent and item semantics. However, LLM-based recommender system…
FreeAct: Freeing Activations for LLM Quantization
Xiaohao Liu, Xiaobo Xia, Manyi Zhang +6
Quantization is pivotal for mitigating the significant memory and computational overhead of Large Language Models (LLMs). While emerging transformation-based methods have successfu…
Multilingual Agent-Based World Modeling for Social Science
Xuan Zhang, Wenxuan Zhang, Anxu Wang +2
Multi-agent role-playing has recently shown promise for studying social behavior with language agents, but existing simulations are mostly monolingual without cross-lingual interac…
Calibrated Multimodal Representation Learning with Missing Modalities
Xiaohao Liu, Xiaobo Xia, Jiaheng Wei +4
Multimodal representation learning harmonizes distinct modalities by aligning them into a unified latent space. Recent research generalizes traditional cross-modal alignment to pro…
RoboOmni: Proactive Robot Manipulation in Omni-modal Context
Siyin Wang, Jinlan Fu, Feihong Liu +11
Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have driven rapid progress in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation. Although effective in many s…
OnePiece: Bringing Context Engineering and Reasoning to Industrial Cascade Ranking System
Sunhao Dai, Jiakai Tang, Jiahua Wu +13
Despite the growing interest in replicating the scaled success of large language models (LLMs) in industrial search and recommender systems, most existing industrial efforts remain…
Improving Conversational Recommendation with Contextual Adaptation of External Recommenders and LLM-based Reranking
Chuang Li, Weida Liang, Hengchang Hu +4
We tackle the challenge of integrating large language models (LLMs) with external recommender systems to enhance domain expertise in conversational recommendation (CRS). Current LL…
Principled Multimodal Representation Learning
Xiaohao Liu, Xiaobo Xia, See-Kiong Ng +1
Multimodal representation learning seeks to create a unified representation space by integrating diverse data modalities to improve multimodal understanding. Traditional methods of…
NextQuill: Causal Preference Modeling for Enhancing LLM Personalization
Xiaoyan Zhao, Juntao You, Yang Zhang +5
Personalizing large language models (LLMs) for individual users has become increasingly important as they are progressively integrated into real-world applications to support users…
NExT-Search: Rebuilding User Feedback Ecosystem for Generative AI Search
Sunhao Dai, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang +4
Generative AI search is reshaping information retrieval by offering end-to-end answers to complex queries, reducing users' reliance on manually browsing and summarizing multiple we…
L-MTP: Leap Multi-Token Prediction Beyond Adjacent Context for Large Language Models
Xiaohao Liu, Xiaobo Xia, Weixiang Zhao +6
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable progress. Despite their success, next-token prediction (NTP), the dominant method for LLM training and inference, is constrained…
Exploring the Impact of Personality Traits on Conversational Recommender Systems: A Simulation with Large Language Models
Xiaoyan Zhao, Yang Deng, Wenjie Wang +5
Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) engage users in multi-turn interactions to deliver personalized recommendations. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) further enh…
FACT-AUDIT: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic Fact-Checking Evaluation of Large Language Models
Hongzhan Lin, Yang Deng, Yuxuan Gu +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the fact-checking studies. However, existing automated fact-checking evaluation methods rely on static datasets and classif…
Continual Multimodal Contrastive Learning
Xiaohao Liu, Xiaobo Xia, See-Kiong Ng +1
Multimodal Contrastive Learning (MCL) advances in aligning different modalities and generating multimodal representations in a joint space. By leveraging contrastive learning acros…
Order-agnostic Identifier for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation
Xinyu Lin, Haihan Shi, Wenjie Wang +4
Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for generative recommendation has attracted significant research interest, where item tokenization is a critical step. It involves assigning…
Aligning Large Language Models for Faithful Integrity Against Opposing Argument
Yong Zhao, Yang Deng, See-Kiong Ng +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in complex reasoning tasks. However, they can be easily misled by unfaithful arguments during conversations,…
Towards Modality Generalization: A Benchmark and Prospective Analysis
Xiaohao Liu, Xiaobo Xia, Zhuo Huang +2
Multi-modal learning has achieved remarkable success by integrating information from various modalities, achieving superior performance in tasks like recognition and retrieval comp…
Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models: A Survey
Moxin Li, Yong Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang +5
Although large language models (LLMs) store vast amount of knowledge in their parameters, they still have limitations in the memorization and utilization of certain knowledge, lead…
Efficient Inference for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation
Xinyu Lin, Chaoqun Yang, Wenjie Wang +5
Large Language Model (LLM)-based generative recommendation has achieved notable success, yet its practical deployment is costly particularly due to excessive inference latency caus…