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most citedOn Softmax Direct Preference Optimization for Recommendation

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20 papers

cs.SI2026

GenPT: Beyond Self-Report for Reliable LLM Psychometrics via Generative Projective Testing

Ming Wang, Shuang Wu, Bixuan Wang +7

Self-report questionnaires remain the prevailing tool for probing the psychological states of persona-conditioned agents (PC-Agents). However, classical instruments inherit two wel…

cs.CL2026

Preference-Aware Rubric Learning for Personalized Evaluation

Yilun Qiu, Xiaoyan Zhao, Yang Zhang +7

As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve from general-purpose assistants to user-centric agents, personalization has become central to aligning model behavior with individual prefere…

cs.LG2026

Tiny Brains, Giant Impact: Uncovering the Keystone Neurons of LLM with Just a Few Prompts

Xiangtian Ji, Yuxin Chen, Zhengzhou Cai +3

Large language models (LLMs) display strong comprehensive abilities, yet the internal mechanisms that support these behaviors remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we sho…

cs.AI2026

Learning to Act under Noise: Enhancing Agent Robustness via Noisy Environments

Yuxin Chen, Xiaodong Cai, Junfeng Fang +9

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have facilitated the widespread deployment of LLMs as interactive agents capable of reasoning, planning, and tool use. Despite stron…

cs.AI2026

VitaBench 2.0: Evaluating Personalized and Proactive Agents in Long-Term User Interactions

Yuxin Chen, Yi Zhang, Zhengzhou Cai +11

Large language models (LLMs) have evolved into interactive agents that collaborate with users in real-world tasks. Effective collaboration in such settings increasingly depends on…

cs.AI2026

Self-ReSET: Learning to Self-Recover from Unsafe Reasoning Trajectories

Dongcheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yuxin Chen +3

Large Reasoning Models possess remarkable capabilities for self-correction in general domain; however, they frequently struggle to recover from unsafe reasoning trajectories under…

cs.AI2026

Internalizing Safety Understanding in Large Reasoning Models via Verification

Yi Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Leheng Sheng +4

While explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) empowers large reasoning models (LRMs), it enables the generation of riskier final answers. Current alignment paradigms primarily rely on exte…

cs.IR2026

Reasoning over Semantic IDs Enhances Generative Recommendation

Yingzhi He, Yan Sun, Junfei Tan +6

Recent advances in generative recommendation have leveraged pretrained LLMs by formulating sequential recommendation as autoregressive generation over a unified token space compris…

cs.CL2026

Do LLMs and VLMs Share Neurons for Inference? Evidence and Mechanisms of Cross-Modal Transfer

Chenhang Cui, An Zhang, Yuxin Chen +5

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have rapidly advanced across various domains, yet they still lag behind strong text-only large language models (LLMs) on tasks that require mul…

cs.CL2026

Transport and Merge: Cross-Architecture Merging for Large Language Models

Chenhang Cui, Binyun Yang, Fei Shen +5

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong capabilities by scaling model capacity and training data, yet many real-world deployments rely on smaller models trained or adapted from…

cs.AI2026

Risky-Bench: Evaluating Agentic Safety Risks in Real-World Life-Assist Deployments

Jingnan Zheng, Yanzhen Luo, Jingjun Xu +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that operate in real-world environments, introducing safety risks beyond linguistic harm through tool use, external…

cs.CL2026

Understanding Multilingualism in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs: Routing Mechanism, Expert Specialization, and Layerwise Steering

Yuxin Chen, Zhengzhou Cai, Xiangtian Ji +4

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have shown strong multilingual capabilities, yet the internal mechanisms underlying performance gains and cross-language differences remain i…

cs.AI2026

MemOCR: Layout-Aware Visual Memory for Efficient Long-Horizon Reasoning

Yaorui Shi, Shugui Liu, Yu Yang +7

Long-horizon agentic reasoning necessitates effectively compressing growing interaction histories into a limited context window. Most existing memory systems serialize history as t…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

MiniOneRec: An Open-Source Framework for Scaling Generative Recommendation

Xiaoyu Kong, Leheng Sheng, Junfei Tan +5

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has renewed interest in whether recommender systems can achieve similar scaling benefits. Conventional recommenders, dominated by…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

Reinforced Preference Optimization for Recommendation

Junfei Tan, Yuxin Chen, An Zhang +7

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have fundamentally shifted recommender systems from discriminative to generative paradigms, where user behavior modeling is ach…

cs.CL2025

Look Back to Reason Forward: Revisitable Memory for Long-Context LLM Agents

Yaorui Shi, Yuxin Chen, Siyuan Wang +5

Large language models face challenges in long-context question answering, where key evidence of a query may be dispersed across millions of tokens. Existing works equip large langu…

cs.CL2025

The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language

Yuxin Chen, Yiran Zhao, Yang Zhang +7

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, their capacity to function effectively across a diverse range of languages has shown marked improvement. Preliminary studies ob…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Language Representations Can be What Recommenders Need: Findings and Potentials

Leheng Sheng, An Zhang, Yi Zhang +3

Recent studies empirically indicate that language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge beyond mere semantics, attracting significant attention across various fields. However, i…

cs.IR2024★ 4 cited

On Softmax Direct Preference Optimization for Recommendation

Yuxin Chen, Junfei Tan, An Zhang +5

Recommender systems aim to predict personalized rankings based on user preference data. With the rise of Language Models (LMs), LM-based recommenders have been widely explored due…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

On Generative Agents in Recommendation

An Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Leheng Sheng +2

Recommender systems are the cornerstone of today's information dissemination, yet a disconnect between offline metrics and online performance greatly hinders their development. Add…