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most citedA Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent

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24 papers

cs.CV2026

GUI-Lens: Coarse-to-Fine Cropping for GUI Grounding with General-Purpose VLMs

Zichuan Fu, Shirong Wang, Wenlin Zhang +10

GUI grounding maps natural-language instructions to click locations and is essential for reliable GUI agents. The task remains difficult on high-resolution, densely populated inter…

cs.IR2026

R-Searcher: Calibrating Retrieval and Reasoning Boundaries for Agentic Search

Sheng Zhang, Junyi Li, Wenlin Zhang +6

Recent search agents for multi-hop reasoning often fail by either retrieving incomplete evidence or reasoning over irrelevant portions of the retrieved content, leading to a retrie…

cs.AI2026

LLM-as-Code: Agentic Programming for Agent Harness

Junjia Qi, Zichuan Fu, Jingtong Gao +4

Every major LLM agent framework gives the LLM the role of orchestrator; the model decides what to do next, when to call tools, and when to stop. We argue that token explosion, cont…

cs.CL2026

Towards Pareto-Optimal Tool-Integrated Agents with Pareto Ranking Policy Optimization

Junyi Li, Xiaowei Qian, Yingyi Zhang +6

Recent advances in tool-integrated language agents have significantly improved their ability to solve complex reasoning tasks. However, existing alignment methods predominantly foc…

cs.IR2026

RAGR: Review-Augmented Generative Recommendation

Yingyi Zhang, Junyi Li, Yejing Wang +8

Sequential recommendation (SR) is traditionally formulated as next-item prediction over chronological item interactions. Although recent generative recommendation (GR) methods intr…

cs.LG2026

T-GINEE: A Tensor-Based Multilayer Graph Representation Learning

Maolin Wang, Ziting Mai, Xuhui Chen +9

Traditional network analysis focuses on single-layer networks, real-world systems often form multilayer networks with multiple relationship types. However, existing methods typical…

cs.IR2026

MemSearch-o1: Empowering Large Language Models with Reasoning-Aligned Memory Growth in Agentic Search

Sheng Zhang, Junyi Li, Yingyi Zhang +7

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have scaled the potential for reasoning and agentic search, wherein models autonomously plan, retrieve, and reason over external kno…

cs.IR2026

Personalized Deep Research: A User-Centric Framework, Dataset, and Hybrid Evaluation for Knowledge Discovery

Xiaopeng Li, Wenlin Zhang, Yingyi Zhang +6

Deep Research agents driven by LLMs have automated the scholarly discovery pipeline, from planning and query formulation to iterative web exploration. Yet they remain constrained b…

cs.CL2026

Learning How and What to Memorize: Cognition-Inspired Two-Stage Optimization for Evolving Memory

Derong Xu, Shuochen Liu, Pengfei Luo +8

Large language model (LLM) agents require long-term user memory for consistent personalization, but limited context windows hinder tracking evolving preferences over long interacti…

cs.CL2026

Job Skill Extraction via LLM-Centric Multi-Module Framework

Guojing Li, Zichuan Fu, Junyi Li +8

Span-level skill extraction from job advertisements underpins candidate-job matching and labor-market analytics, yet generative large language models (LLMs) often yield malformed s…

cs.CV2026

GeoRouter: Dynamic Paradigm Routing for Worldwide Image Geolocalization

Pengyue Jia, Derong Xu, Yingyi Zhang +5

Worldwide image geolocalization aims to predict precise GPS coordinates for images captured anywhere on Earth, which is challenging due to the large visual and geographic diversity…

cs.IR2026

Evoking User Memory: Personalizing LLM via Recollection-Familiarity Adaptive Retrieval

Yingyi Zhang, Junyi Li, Wenlin Zhang +8

Personalized large language models (LLMs) rely on memory retrieval to incorporate user-specific histories, preferences, and contexts. Existing approaches either overload the LLM by…

cs.IR2026

To Search or Not to Search: Aligning the Decision Boundary of Deep Search Agents via Causal Intervention

Wenlin Zhang, Kuicai Dong, Junyi Li +9

Deep search agents, which autonomously iterate through multi-turn web-based reasoning, represent a promising paradigm for complex information-seeking tasks. However, current agents…

cs.IR2026

Exploring Recommender System Evaluation: A Multi-Modal User Agent Framework for A/B Testing

Wenlin Zhang, Xiangyang Li, Qiyuan Ge +9

In recommender systems, online A/B testing is a crucial method for evaluating the performance of different models. However, conducting online A/B testing often presents significant…

cs.CL2025

MTA: A Merge-then-Adapt Framework for Personalized Large Language Model

Xiaopeng Li, Yuanjin Zheng, Wanyu Wang +6

Personalized Large Language Models (PLLMs) aim to align model outputs with individual user preferences, a crucial capability for user-centric applications. However, the prevalent a…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

NEZHA: A Zero-sacrifice and Hyperspeed Decoding Architecture for Generative Recommendations

Yejing Wang, Shengyu Zhou, Jinyu Lu +9

Generative Recommendation (GR), powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), represents a promising new paradigm for industrial recommender systems. However, their practical applicatio…

cs.IR2025

Personalize Before Retrieve: LLM-based Personalized Query Expansion for User-Centric Retrieval

Yingyi Zhang, Pengyue Jia, Derong Xu +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) critically depends on effective query expansion to retrieve relevant information. However, existing expansion methods adopt uniform strategies…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Deep Research: A Survey of Autonomous Research Agents

Wenlin Zhang, Xiaopeng Li, Yingyi Zhang +5

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has driven the development of agentic systems capable of autonomously performing complex tasks. Despite their impressive capab…

cs.IR2025

GFlowGR: Fine-tuning Generative Recommendation Frameworks with Generative Flow Networks

Yejing Wang, Shengyu Zhou, Jinyu Lu +9

Generative recommendations (GR), which usually include item tokenizers and generative Large Language Models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of scen…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

From Single to Multi-Granularity: Toward Long-Term Memory Association and Selection of Conversational Agents

Derong Xu, Yi Wen, Pengyue Jia +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been widely adopted in conversational agents. However, the increasingly long interactions between users and agents accumulate extensive d…

cs.IR2025

Process vs. Outcome Reward: Which is Better for Agentic RAG Reinforcement Learning

Wenlin Zhang, Xiangyang Li, Kuicai Dong +9

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the text generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge and up-to-date information. However…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

A Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent

Xiaopeng Li, Pengyue Jia, Derong Xu +11

Personalization has become an essential capability in modern AI systems, enabling customized interactions that align with individual user preferences, contexts, and goals. Recent r…

cs.IR2024

LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations

Wenlin Zhang, Chuhan Wu, Xiangyang Li +7

The lack of training data gives rise to the system cold-start problem in recommendation systems, making them struggle to provide effective recommendations. To address this problem,…

cs.CL2023

RobuT: A Systematic Study of Table QA Robustness Against Human-Annotated Adversarial Perturbations

Yilun Zhao, Chen Zhao, Linyong Nan +5

Despite significant progress having been made in question answering on tabular data (Table QA), it's unclear whether, and to what extent existing Table QA models are robust to task…