2 papers
cs.LG2026
Code-to-Harness: Distilling Black-Box Optimizers from Self-Play
Yi Wu, Zheng Ren, Zhiyu Hu +8
Can an agent learn a numerical search strategy through executable practice and then transfer that strategy as text? We study low-budget black-box optimization, where unaided langua…
cs.IR2026
Learning to Alleviate Familiarity Bias in Video Recommendation
Zheng Ren, Yi Wu, Jianan Lu +4
Modern video recommendation systems aim to optimize user engagement and platform objectives, yet often face structural exposure imbalances caused by behavioral biases. In this work…