16 papers
Incumbent Advantage: Brand Bias and Cognitive Manipulation Dynamics in LLM Recommendation Systems
Xi Chu, Yupeng Hou
Large language models (LLMs) are becoming a major way for consumers to find products, but we do not yet understand how brands compete in this new channel. We study brand dynamics i…
BOOKMARKS: Efficient Active Storyline Memory for Role-playing
Letian Peng, Ziche Liu, Yiming Huang +4
Memory systems are critical for role-playing agents (RPAs) to maintain long-horizon consistency. However, existing RPA memory methods (e.g., profiling) mainly rely on recurrent sum…
MLPs are Efficient Distilled Generative Recommenders
Zitian Guo, Yupeng Hou, Clark Mingxuan Ju +2
Generative recommendation models employing Semantic IDs (SIDs) exhibit strong potential, yet their practical deployment is bottlenecked by the high inference latency of beam-expand…
Expressiveness Limits of Autoregressive Semantic ID Generation in Generative Recommendation
Yupeng Hou, Haven Kim, Clark Mingxuan Ju +3
Generative recommendation (GR) models generate items by autoregressively producing a sequence of discrete tokens that jointly index the target item. However, this autoregressive ge…
From Local Indices to Global Identifiers: Generative Reranking for Recommender Systems via Global Action Space
Pengyue Jia, Xiaobei Wang, Yingyi Zhang +14
In modern recommender systems, list-wise reranking serves as a critical phase within the multi-stage pipeline, finalizing the exposed item sequence and directly impacting user sati…
Bridging Language and Items for Retrieval and Recommendation: Benchmarking LLMs as Semantic Encoders
Yupeng Hou, Jiacheng Li, Xiangjun Fu +4
Feature engineering has long been central to recommender systems, yet effectively leveraging textual item features remains challenging. Recent advances in large language models (LL…