4 papers
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…
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…