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8 papers

cs.CL2026

Catalog-Native LLM: Speaking Item-ID Dialect with Less Entanglement for Recommendation

Reza Shirkavand, Xiaokai Wei, Chen Wang +3

While collaborative filtering delivers predictive accuracy and efficiency, and Large Language Models (LLMs) enable expressive and generalizable reasoning, modern recommendation sys…

cs.CL2026

MemoryCD: Benchmarking Long-Context User Memory of LLM Agents for Lifelong Cross-Domain Personalization

Weizhi Zhang, Xiaokai Wei, Wei-Chieh Huang +4

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have expanded context windows to million-token scales, yet benchmarks for evaluating memory remain limited to short-session synt…

cs.IR2026

Toward Safe and Human-Aligned Game Conversational Recommendation via Multi-Agent Decomposition

Zheng Hui, Xiaokai Wei, Yexi Jiang +6

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have advanced with large language models, showing strong results in domains like movies. These domains typically involve fixed content and…

cs.CL2025

Semantics Meet Signals: Dual Codebook Representationl Learning for Generative Recommendation

Zheng Hui, Xiaokai Wei, Reza Shirkavand +4

Generative recommendation has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm that unifies retrieval and generation, representing items as discrete semantic tokens and enabling flexible se…

cs.IR2025

Rotate Both Ways: Time-and-Order RoPE for Generative Recommendation

Xiaokai Wei, Jiajun Wu, Daiyao Yi +2

Generative recommenders, typically transformer-based autoregressive models, predict the next item or action from a user's interaction history. Their effectiveness depends on how th…

cs.IR2025

The Layout Is the Model: On Action-Item Coupling in Generative Recommendation

Xiaokai Wei, Jiajun Wu, Daiyao Yi +2

Generative Recommendation (GR) models treat a user's interaction history as a sequence to be autoregressively predicted. When both items and actions (e.g., watch time, purchase, co…