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10 papers

cs.AI2026

LLM-HYPER: Generative CTR Modeling for Cold-Start Ad Personalization via LLM-Based Hypernetworks

Luyi Ma, Wanjia Sherry Zhang, Zezhong Fan +10

On online advertising platforms, newly introduced promotional ads face the cold-start problem, as they lack sufficient user feedback for model training. In this work, we propose LL…

cs.IR2026

Latent Customer Segmentation and Value-Based Recommendation Leveraging a Two-Stage Model with Missing Labels

Keerthi Gopalakrishnan, Tianning Dong, Chia-Yen Ho +5

The success of businesses depends on their ability to convert consumers into loyal customers. A customer's value proposition is a primary determinant in this process, requiring a b…

cs.IR2025

MetaSynth: Multi-Agent Metadata Generation from Implicit Feedback in Black-Box Systems

Shreeranjani Srirangamsridharan, Ali Abavisani, Reza Yousefi Maragheh +4

Meta titles and descriptions strongly shape engagement in search and recommendation platforms, yet optimizing them remains challenging. Search engine ranking models are black box e…

cs.AI2025

To See or To Read: User Behavior Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

Tianning Dong, Luyi Ma, Varun Vasudevan +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are reshaping how modern agentic systems reason over sequential user-behavior data. However, whether textual or image representations of us…

cs.IR2025

ARAG: Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation for Personalized Recommendation

Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Pratheek Vadla, Priyank Gupta +7

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shown promise in enhancing recommendation systems by incorporating external context into large language model prompts. However, existing RA…

cs.CL2025

GRACE: Generative Recommendation via Journey-Aware Sparse Attention on Chain-of-Thought Tokenization

Luyi Ma, Wanjia Zhang, Kai Zhao +15

Generative models have recently demonstrated strong potential in multi-behavior recommendation systems, leveraging the expressive power of transformers and tokenization to generate…