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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Beyond Semantic Understanding: Preserving Collaborative Frequency Components in LLM-based Recommendation

Minhao Wang, Yunhang He, Cong Xu +4

Recommender systems in concert with Large Language Models (LLMs) present promising avenues for generating semantically-informed recommendations. However, LLM-based recommenders exh…

cs.IR2026

Rejuvenating Cross-Entropy Loss in Knowledge Distillation for Recommender Systems

Zhangchi Zhu, Wei Zhang

This paper analyzes Cross-Entropy (CE) loss in knowledge distillation (KD) for recommender systems. KD for recommender systems targets at distilling rankings, especially among item…

cs.IR2025

Pattern-wise Transparent Sequential Recommendation

Kun Ma, Cong Xu, Zeyuan Chen +1

A transparent decision-making process is essential for developing reliable and trustworthy recommender systems. For sequential recommendation, it means that the model can identify…

cs.IR2025

Exploring Feature-based Knowledge Distillation for Recommender System: A Frequency Perspective

Zhangchi Zhu, Wei Zhang

In this paper, we analyze the feature-based knowledge distillation for recommendation from the frequency perspective. By defining knowledge as different frequency components of the…

cs.IR2025

Preference-Consistent Knowledge Distillation for Recommender System

Zhangchi Zhu, Wei Zhang

Feature-based knowledge distillation has been applied to compress modern recommendation models, usually with projectors that align student (small) recommendation models' dimensions…