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

26 citations · 27 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.AI2026

User Representation via Cross Multi-source Behavior Pre-training for Mobile Games

Chengqi Yang, Yiran Qiao, Feng Liu +7

User representation pre-training has become a fundamental paradigm for alleviating data sparsity in downstream personalization tasks. However, existing studies predominantly focus…

cs.IR2026

Discrete Preference Learning for Personalized Multimodal Generation

Yuting Zhang, Ying Sun, Dazhong Shen +6

The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: l…

cs.CL2026

OThink-SRR1: Search, Refine and Reasoning with Reinforced Learning for Large Language Models

Haijian Liang, Zenghao Niu, Junjie Wu +3

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) expands the knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet current static retrieval methods struggle with complex, multi-hop problems. While re…

cs.CL2026

TSEmbed: Unlocking Task Scaling in Universal Multimodal Embeddings

Yebo Wu, Feng Liu, Ziwei Xie +4

Despite the exceptional reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), their adaptation into universal embedding models is significantly impeded by task confli…

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

Does LLM Focus on the Right Words? Mitigating Context Bias in LLM-based Recommenders

Bohao Wang, Jiawei Chen, Feng Liu +5

Large language models (LLMs), owing to their extensive open-domain knowledge and semantic reasoning capabilities, have been increasingly integrated into recommender systems (RS). H…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

OThink-R1: Intrinsic Fast/Slow Thinking Mode Switching for Over-Reasoning Mitigation

Shengjia Zhang, Junjie Wu, Jiawei Chen +7

Human cognition operates through two complementary modes: fast intuitive thinking and slow deliberate thinking. Vanilla large language models (LLMs) predominantly follow the fast-t…

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.IR2025

MSL: Not All Tokens Are What You Need for Tuning LLM as a Recommender

Bohao Wang, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +7

Large language models (LLMs), known for their comprehension capabilities and extensive knowledge, have been increasingly applied to recommendation systems (RS). Given the fundament…

cs.LG2025

OThink-MR1: Stimulating multimodal generalized reasoning capabilities via dynamic reinforcement learning

Zhiyuan Liu, Yuting Zhang, Feng Liu +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant traction for their ability to process diverse input data types and generate coherent, contextually relevant outputs…

cs.LG2024

Adaptive Conditional Expert Selection Network for Multi-domain Recommendation

Kuiyao Dong, Xingyu Lou, Feng Liu +4

Mixture-of-Experts (MOE) has recently become the de facto standard in Multi-domain recommendation (MDR) due to its powerful expressive ability. However, such MOE-based method typic…

cs.IR2024

LLM4DSR: Leveraging Large Language Model for Denoising Sequential Recommendation

Bohao Wang, Feng Liu, Changwang Zhang +8

Sequential Recommenders generate recommendations based on users' historical interaction sequences. However, in practice, these collected sequences are often contaminated by noisy i…

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…