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6 papers

cs.IR2026

Bridging Language and Items for Retrieval and Recommendation: Benchmarking LLMs as Semantic Encoders

Yupeng Hou, Jiacheng Li, Xiangjun Fu +4

Feature engineering has long been central to recommender systems, yet effectively leveraging textual item features remains challenging. Recent advances in large language models (LL…

cs.IR2026

Retrieval Augmented Conversational Recommendation with Reinforcement Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Honglei Zhuang, Zhen Qin +4

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit enhanced capabilities in language understanding and generation. By utilizing their embedded knowledge, LLMs are increasingly used as conversati…

cs.IR2025

ActionPiece: Contextually Tokenizing Action Sequences for Generative Recommendation

Yupeng Hou, Jianmo Ni, Zhankui He +5

Generative recommendation (GR) is an emerging paradigm where user actions are tokenized into discrete token patterns and autoregressively generated as predictions. However, existin…

cs.AI2025

Large Language Model Driven Recommendation

Anton Korikov, Scott Sanner, Yashar Deldjoo +8

While previous chapters focused on recommendation systems (RSs) based on standardized, non-verbal user feedback such as purchases, views, and clicks -- the advent of LLMs has unloc…

cs.AI2025

LaViC: Adapting Large Vision-Language Models to Visually-Aware Conversational Recommendation

Hyunsik Jeon, Satoshi Koide, Yu Wang +2

Conversational recommender systems engage users in dialogues to refine their needs and provide more personalized suggestions. Although textual information suffices for many domains…

cs.IR2025

Your Causal Self-Attentive Recommender Hosts a Lonely Neighborhood

Yueqi Wang, Zhankui He, Zhenrui Yue +2

In the context of sequential recommendation, a pivotal issue pertains to the comparative analysis between bi-directional/auto-encoding (AE) and uni-directional/auto-regressive (AR)…