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most citedLet Me Do It For You: Towards LLM Empowered Recommendation via Tool Learning

40 citations · 85 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.AI2026

CUSE: Fine-Grained Multimodal Unlearning with Counterfactual Guidance and On-Policy Self-Distillation

Chenlu Ding, Jiancan Wu, Yanchen Luo +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can reproduce sensitive, copyrighted, or unsafe information from their training data. Effective unlearning must remove target information w…

cs.CL2026

SepSeq: A Training-Free Framework for Long Numerical Sequence Processing in LLMs

Jie Sun, Yu Liu, Lu Han +9

While transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) theoretically support massive context windows, they suffer from severe performance degradation when processing long numerical s…

cs.LG2026

On the Direction of RLVR Updates for LLM Reasoning: Identification and Exploitation

Kexin Huang, Haoming Meng, Junkang Wu +10

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models. While existing analyses identify that RLVR-ind…

cs.IR2025

On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based Recommenders

Wenyu Mao, Jiancan Wu, Guoqing Hu +3

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generative sequential recommendation, which typically generate next items to recommend guided by user interaction histories…

cs.LG2025

MLLMEraser: Achieving Test-Time Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models through Activation Steering

Chenlu Ding, Jiancan Wu, Leheng Sheng +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across vision-language tasks, yet their large-scale deployment raises pressing concerns about mem…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Temporal Sensitivity of Large Language Model for Recommendation with Counterfactual Tuning

Yutian Liu, Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu +1

Recent advances have applied large language models (LLMs) to sequential recommendation, leveraging their pre-training knowledge and reasoning capabilities to provide more personali…

cs.IR2025

Addressing Missing Data Issue for Diffusion-based Recommendation

Wenyu Mao, Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu +4

Diffusion models have shown significant potential in generating oracle items that best match user preference with guidance from user historical interaction sequences. However, the…

cs.IR2025

Multi-Grained Patch Training for Efficient LLM-based Recommendation

Jiayi Liao, Ruobing Xie, Sihang Li +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a new paradigm for recommendation by converting interacted item history into language modeling. However, constrained by the limited con…

cs.IR2024

Position-aware Graph Transformer for Recommendation

Jiajia Chen, Jiancan Wu, Jiawei Chen +3

Collaborative recommendation fundamentally involves learning high-quality user and item representations from interaction data. Recently, graph convolution networks (GCNs) have adva…

cs.AI2024

Unified Parameter-Efficient Unlearning for LLMs

Chenlu Ding, Jiancan Wu, Yancheng Yuan +5

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing, enabling advanced understanding and reasoning capabilities across a variety of tasks. Fin…

cs.IR2024

RosePO: Aligning LLM-based Recommenders with Human Values

Jiayi Liao, Xiangnan He, Ruobing Xie +5

Recently, there has been a growing interest in leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for recommendation systems, which usually adapt a pre-trained LLM to the recommendation scena…

cs.IR2024★ 3 cited

Customizing Language Models with Instance-wise LoRA for Sequential Recommendation

Xiaoyu Kong, Jiancan Wu, An Zhang +4

Sequential recommendation systems predict the next interaction item based on users' past interactions, aligning recommendations with individual preferences. Leveraging the strength…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Invariant Graph Learning Meets Information Bottleneck for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Wenyu Mao, Jiancan Wu, Haoyang Liu +2

Graph out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization remains a major challenge in graph learning since graph neural networks (GNNs) often suffer from severe performance degradation under…

cs.LG2024

Adaptive Self-supervised Robust Clustering for Unstructured Data with Unknown Cluster Number

Chen-Lu Ding, Jiancan Wu, Wei Lin +3

We introduce a novel self-supervised deep clustering approach tailored for unstructured data without requiring prior knowledge of the number of clusters, termed Adaptive Self-super…

cs.IR2024

Reinforced Prompt Personalization for Recommendation with Large Language Models

Wenyu Mao, Jiancan Wu, Weijian Chen +3

Designing effective prompts can empower LLMs to understand user preferences and provide recommendations with intent comprehension and knowledge utilization capabilities. Neverthele…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

-DPO: Direct Preference Optimization with Dynamic

Junkang Wu, Yuexiang Xie, Zhengyi Yang +5

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a compelling approach for training Large Language Models (LLMs) to adhere to human preferences. However, the performance of DPO…

cs.LG2024

Towards Robust Alignment of Language Models: Distributionally Robustifying Direct Preference Optimization

Junkang Wu, Yuexiang Xie, Zhengyi Yang +6

This study addresses the challenge of noise in training datasets for Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), a method for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences…

cs.IR2024★ 40 cited

Let Me Do It For You: Towards LLM Empowered Recommendation via Tool Learning

Yuyue Zhao, Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang +3

Conventional recommender systems (RSs) face challenges in precisely capturing users' fine-grained preferences. Large language models (LLMs) have shown capabilities in commonsense r…

cs.LG2023

BSL: Understanding and Improving Softmax Loss for Recommendation

Junkang Wu, Jiawei Chen, Jiancan Wu +3

Loss functions steer the optimization direction of recommendation models and are critical to model performance, but have received relatively little attention in recent recommendati…

cs.IR2023★ 5 cited

LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant

Jiayi Liao, Sihang Li, Zhengyi Yang +4

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items based on their past engagement sequence. Recently, the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spark…

cs.IR2023★ 6 cited

Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender

Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu, Yanchen Luo +5

Sequential recommendation is to predict the next item of interest for a user, based on her/his interaction history with previous items. In conventional sequential recommenders, a c…

cs.IR2023★ 15 cited

Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion

Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu, Zhicai Wang +3

Sequential recommendation aims to recommend the next item that matches a user's interest, based on the sequence of items he/she interacted with before. Scrutinizing previous studie…

cs.IR2023

Model-enhanced Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Recommendation

Chengpeng Li, Zhengyi Yang, Jizhi Zhang +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely applied in recommendation systems due to its potential in optimizing the long-term engagement of users. From the perspective of RL, reco…

cs.LG2023★ 13 cited

Understanding Contrastive Learning via Distributionally Robust Optimization

Junkang Wu, Jiawei Chen, Jiancan Wu +3

This study reveals the inherent tolerance of contrastive learning (CL) towards sampling bias, wherein negative samples may encompass similar semantics (\eg labels). However, existi…