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most citedDistillation Matters: Empowering Sequential Recommenders to Match the Performance of Large Language Model

26 citations · 26 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.IR2026

Making Collaborative Signals Count: Graph-Aware Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation

Fenglin Yan, Bohao Wang, Jian Zhang +5

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted as backbones for recommender systems. However, their language-centric pretraining makes it difficult to capture collaborative…

cs.IR2026

SmartGR: Hierarchy and Beam-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Generative Recommendation

Ziheng Zhang, Yu Cui, Bohao Wang +6

Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for recommender systems. Scaling up GR models can improve recommendation performance, but it also substantially i…

cs.IR2026

SpecFormer: Mitigating Embedding and Attention Collapse via Spectral-Aware Transformer for Recommendation

Yu Cui, Yi Xu, Jiahao Wang +6

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains; however, directly applying their standard self-attention mechanism to recommendation often yields…

cs.IR2026

IMFuse: Instance-Aware Multi-Layer Fusion for LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation

Yuheng Zheng, Yu Cui, Bin Wu +4

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced sequential recommendation by encoding rich item textual information into semantic representations. H…

cs.IR2026

SpecTran: Spectral-Aware Transformer-based Adapter for LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation

Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Zhaoxiang Wang +4

Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) models learn low-dimensional item ID embeddings from user-item interactions, often overlooking textual information such as item titles or…

cs.IR2025

HatLLM: Hierarchical Attention Masking for Enhanced Collaborative Modeling in LLM-based Recommendation

Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +6

Recent years have witnessed a surge of research on leveraging large language models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation. LLMs have demonstrated remarkable potential in inferring u…

cs.IR2025

Field Matters: A Lightweight LLM-enhanced Method for CTR Prediction

Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +6

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental task in modern recommender systems. In recent years, the integration of large language models (LLMs) has been shown to effectiv…

cs.IR2024★ 26 cited

Distillation Matters: Empowering Sequential Recommenders to Match the Performance of Large Language Model

Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Pengbo Wang +5

Owing to their powerful semantic reasoning capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been effectively utilized as recommenders, achieving impressive performance. However, the…