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Towards Faithful Simulation of Human Shopping Behavior
Jiakai Tang, Yan Mi, Jing Yu +9
Simulating realistic user shopping behavior underpins offline evaluation and reinforcement learning in e-commerce scenarios. While recent LLM- and VLM-based simulators have made en…
Learning from the Future: Privileged Self-Distillation for Sequential Recommendation
Jiakai Tang, Yang Zhang, See-Kiong Ng +4
Sequential recommenders are commonly trained with one-hot next-item labels under a causal (prefix-only) objective aligned with inference. While deployment-compatible, this supervis…
RecGPT-V3 Technical Report
Bowen Zheng, Chao Yi, Dian Chen +26
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming recommender systems from matching co-occurrence patterns in historical behavior toward reasoning about the intent that drives it. RecG…
OneRank: Unified Transformer-Native Ranking Architecture for Multi-Task Recommendation
Jiakai Tang, Sunhao Dai, Kun Wang +8
Multi-task learning (MTL) is essential in recommender systems to enable complementary learning among diverse user feedback. While modern industrial practices have shifted from DNNs…
LoopCTR: Unlocking the Loop Scaling Power for Click-Through Rate Prediction
Jiakai Tang, Runfeng Zhang, Weiqiu Wang +7
Scaling Transformer-based click-through rate (CTR) models by stacking more parameters brings growing computational and storage overhead, creating a widening gap between scaling amb…
Parallel Latent Reasoning for Sequential Recommendation
Jiakai Tang, Xu Chen, Wen Chen +3
Capturing complex user preferences from sparse behavioral sequences remains a fundamental challenge in sequential recommendation. Recent latent reasoning methods have shown promise…
RecGPT-V2 Technical Report
Chao Yi, Dian Chen, Gaoyang Guo +32
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in transforming recommender systems from implicit behavioral pattern matching to explicit intent reasoning. Whil…
The 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered Recommender Systems
Kaike Zhang, Jiakai Tang, Du Su +6
Recommender systems shape how people discover information, form opinions, and connect with society. Yet, as their influence grows, traditional metrics, e.g., accuracy, clicks, and…
Interactive Recommendation Agent with Active User Commands
Jiakai Tang, Yujie Luo, Xunke Xi +12
Traditional recommender systems rely on passive feedback mechanisms that limit users to simple choices such as like and dislike. However, these coarse-grained signals fail to captu…
OnePiece: Bringing Context Engineering and Reasoning to Industrial Cascade Ranking System
Sunhao Dai, Jiakai Tang, Jiahua Wu +13
Despite the growing interest in replicating the scaled success of large language models (LLMs) in industrial search and recommender systems, most existing industrial efforts remain…
RecGPT Technical Report
Chao Yi, Dian Chen, Gaoyang Guo +51
Recommender systems are among the most impactful applications of artificial intelligence, serving as critical infrastructure connecting users, merchants, and platforms. However, mo…
Expectation Confirmation Preference Optimization for Multi-Turn Conversational Recommendation Agent
Xueyang Feng, Jingsen Zhang, Jiakai Tang +6
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly propelled the development of Conversational Recommendation Agents (CRAs). However, these agents often generat…
Explainable Recommendation with Simulated Human Feedback
Jiakai Tang, Jingsen Zhang, Zihang Tian +3
Recent advancements in explainable recommendation have greatly bolstered user experience by elucidating the decision-making rationale. However, the existing methods actually fail t…
Improving Retrospective Language Agents via Joint Policy Gradient Optimization
Xueyang Feng, Bo Lan, Quanyu Dai +5
In recent research advancements within the community, large language models (LLMs) have sparked great interest in creating autonomous agents. However, current prompt-based agents o…
Think Before Recommend: Unleashing the Latent Reasoning Power for Sequential Recommendation
Jiakai Tang, Sunhao Dai, Teng Shi +5
Sequential Recommendation (SeqRec) aims to predict the next item by capturing sequential patterns from users' historical interactions, playing a crucial role in many real-world rec…
GenSim: A General Social Simulation Platform with Large Language Model based Agents
Jiakai Tang, Heyang Gao, Xuchen Pan +11
With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), recent years have witnessed many promising studies on leveraging LLM-based agents to simulate human social behavior. Whi…
A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agents
Lei Wang, Chen Ma, Xueyang Feng +10
Autonomous agents have long been a prominent research focus in both academic and industry communities. Previous research in this field often focuses on training agents with limited…
User Behavior Simulation with Large Language Model based Agents
Lei Wang, Jingsen Zhang, Hao Yang +11
Simulating high quality user behavior data has always been a fundamental problem in human-centered applications, where the major difficulty originates from the intricate mechanism…
Fairness-aware Cross-Domain Recommendation
Jiakai Tang, Xu Chen, Xueyang Feng
Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) is an effective way to alleviate the cold-start problem. However, previous work severely ignores fairness and bias when learning the mapping funct…
RecBole 2.0: Towards a More Up-to-Date Recommendation Library
Wayne Xin Zhao, Yupeng Hou, Xingyu Pan +16
In order to support the study of recent advances in recommender systems, this paper presents an extended recommendation library consisting of eight packages for up-to-date topics a…