13 papers
Evaluating Uplift Modeling under Structural Biases: Insights into Metric Stability and Model Robustness
Yuxuan Yang, Dugang Liu, Yiyan Huang
In personalized marketing, uplift models estimate the incremental effect of an intervention by modeling how customer behavior would change under alternative treatments using counte…
HSUGA: LLM-Enhanced Recommendation with Hierarchical Semantic Understanding and Group-Aware Alignment
Guorui Li, Dugang Liu, Lei Li +2
Large language model (LLM)-enhanced sequential recommendation typically aims to improve two core components: user semantic embedding extraction and utilization. Despite promising r…
FedMM: Federated Collaborative Signal Quantization for Multi-Market CTR Prediction
Jun Zhang, Dugang Liu, Xing Tang +2
Online platforms such as Amazon and Netflix serve users across multiple countries and regions, underscoring the importance of multi-market recommendation (MMR). Most MMR methods ad…
Data-Driven Function Calling Improvements in Large Language Model for Online Financial QA
Xing Tang, Hao Chen, Shiwei Li +7
Large language models (LLMs) have been incorporated into numerous industrial applications. Meanwhile, a vast array of API assets is scattered across various functions in the financ…
Retrieve-then-Adapt: Retrieval-Augmented Test-Time Adaptation for Sequential Recommendation
Xing Tang, Jingyang Bin, Ziqiang Cui +6
The sequential recommendation (SR) task aims to predict the next item based on users' historical interaction sequences. Typically trained on historical data, SR models often strugg…
Semantic Retrieval Augmented Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation
Ziqiang Cui, Yunpeng Weng, Xing Tang +8
Contrastive learning has shown effectiveness in improving sequential recommendation models. However, existing methods still face challenges in generating high-quality contrastive p…