3 papers
cs.CY2025
See, Think, Act: Online Shopper Behavior Simulation with VLM Agents
Yimeng Zhang, Jiri Gesi, Ran Xue +10
LLMs have recently demonstrated strong potential in simulating online shopper behavior. Prior work has improved action prediction by applying SFT on action traces with LLM-generate…
cs.CL2025
SynerGen: Contextualized Generative Recommender for Unified Search and Recommendation
Vianne R. Gao, Chen Xue, Marc Versage +11
The dominant retrieve-then-rank pipeline in large-scale recommender systems suffers from mis-calibration and engineering overhead due to its architectural split and differing optim…
cs.CL2025
Exploring Reasoning-Infused Text Embedding with Large Language Models for Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval
Yuxiang Liu, Tian Wang, Gourab Kundu +6
Transformer-based models such as BERT and E5 have significantly advanced text embedding by capturing rich contextual representations. However, many complex real-world queries requi…