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5 papers

cs.IR2026

LLM Agents Enable User-Governed Personalization Beyond Platform Boundaries

Jiacheng Lin, Kun Qian, Arvind Srinivasan +15

Personalization today is fundamentally platform-centric: services build user representations from the behavioral fragments they observe. Yet no platform can construct a complete pi…

cs.AI2026

SynPlanResearch-R1: Encouraging Tool Exploration for Deep Research with Synthetic Plans

Hansi Zeng, Zoey Li, Yifan Gao +7

Research Agents enable models to gather information from the web using tools to answer user queries, requiring them to dynamically interleave internal reasoning with tool use. Whil…

cs.CL2026

Shop-R1: Rewarding LLMs to Simulate Human Behavior in Online Shopping via Reinforcement Learning

Yimeng Zhang, Tian Wang, Jiri Gesi +14

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential in generating 'believable human-like' behavior in web environments. Prior work has explored augmenting trai…

cs.CL2026

SFT Doesn't Always Hurt General Capabilities: Revisiting Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning in LLMs

Jiacheng Lin, Zhongruo Wang, Kun Qian +14

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) on domain-specific datasets is a common approach to adapt Large Language Models (LLMs) to specialized tasks but is often believed to degrade their gene…

cs.IR2026

Rec-R1: Bridging Generative Large Language Models and User-Centric Recommendation Systems via Reinforcement Learning

Jiacheng Lin, Tian Wang, Kun Qian

We propose Rec-R1, a general reinforcement learning framework that bridges large language models (LLMs) with recommendation systems through closed-loop optimization. Unlike prompti…