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most citedStepTool: Enhancing Multi-Step Tool Usage in LLMs via Step-Grained Reinforcement Learning

2 citations · 3 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.IR2026

SelfDR: Self-Distillation from Reasoning for LLM-Based Recommendation

Chumeng Jiang, Jiayin Wang, Xinjie Lin +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful backbones for recommendation. To better elicit their capabilities, reasoning has been widely incorporated to help LLM…

cs.CL2026

Personalized Turn-Level User Conversation Satisfaction Benchmark

Zhefan Wang, Zhiqiang Guo, Weizhi Ma +3

User satisfaction with AI assistants is highly personalized: the same response may satisfy one user but disappoint another depending on what each user expects and what they have as…

cs.IR2026

APAO: Bridging the Training-Inference Gap in Generative Recommendation via Adaptive Prefix-Aware Optimization

Yuanqing Yu, Yifan Wang, Weizhi Ma +2

Generative recommendation has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for sequential recommendation. It formulates the task as an autoregressive generation process, predicting tok…

cs.CV2025

GSE: Evaluating Sticker Visual Semantic Similarity via a General Sticker Encoder

Heng Er Metilda Chee, Jiayin Wang, Zhiqiang Guo +2

Stickers have become a popular form of visual communication, yet understanding their semantic relationships remains challenging due to their highly diverse and symbolic content. In…

cs.CY2025

Integrating LLM and Diffusion-Based Agents for Social Simulation

Xinyi Li, Zhiqiang Guo, Qinglang Guo +3

Large language models (LLMs) offer strong semantic reasoning capabilities for user modeling, but applying LLM-based simulation to an entire social network is computationally expens…

cs.IR2025

Human vs. Agent in Task-Oriented Conversations

Zhefan Wang, Ning Geng, Zhiqiang Guo +2

Task-oriented conversational systems are essential for efficiently addressing diverse user needs, yet their development requires substantial amounts of high-quality conversational…

cs.IR2025

Are Recommenders Self-Aware? Label-Free Recommendation Performance Estimation via Model Uncertainty

Jiayu Li, Ziyi Ye, Guohao Jian +4

Can a recommendation model be self-aware? This paper investigates the recommender's self-awareness by quantifying its uncertainty, which provides a label-free estimation of its per…

cs.MM2025

Small Stickers, Big Meanings: A Multilingual Sticker Semantic Understanding Dataset with a Gamified Approach

Heng Er Metilda Chee, Jiayin Wang, Zhiqiang Guo +2

Stickers, though small, are a highly condensed form of visual expression, ubiquitous across messaging platforms and embraced by diverse cultures, genders, and age groups. Despite t…

cs.IR2025

Short Video Segment-level User Dynamic Interests Modeling in Personalized Recommendation

Zhiyu He, Zhixin Ling, Jiayu Li +5

The rapid growth of short videos has necessitated effective recommender systems to match users with content tailored to their evolving preferences. Current video recommendation mod…

cs.IR2025

U-Sticker: A Large-Scale Multi-Domain User Sticker Dataset for Retrieval and Personalization

Heng Er Metilda Chee, Jiayin Wang, Zhiqiang Guo +3

Instant messaging with texts and stickers has become a widely adopted communication medium, enabling efficient expression of user semantics and emotions. With the increased use of…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Understanding Internal Representations of Recommendation Models with Sparse Autoencoders

Jiayin Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Weizhi Ma +2

Recommendation model interpretation aims to reveal the relationships between inputs, model internal representations and outputs to enhance the transparency, interpretability, and t…

cs.IR2024

PerSRV: Personalized Sticker Retrieval with Vision-Language Model

Heng Er Metilda Chee, Jiayin Wang, Zhiqiang Guo +2

Instant Messaging is a popular means for daily communication, allowing users to send text and stickers. As the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words", so developing an…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

StepTool: Enhancing Multi-Step Tool Usage in LLMs via Step-Grained Reinforcement Learning

Yuanqing Yu, Zhefan Wang, Weizhi Ma +4

Despite their powerful text generation capabilities, large language models (LLMs) still struggle to effectively utilize external tools to solve complex tasks, a challenge known as…