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cs.IR2026

Learning from Unreachable Rewards: Hint-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Generative Recommendation

Kangning Zhang, Haotian Fang, Xukun Luo +6

Semantic-ID generative recommenders represent each item as a short sequence of discrete semantic tokens and predict the next item by autoregressively generating this token sequence…

cs.AI2026

Harness-R1: Learning to Edit Executable Runtime Harnesses from Agent Failure Trajectories

Shuai Shao, Kangning Zhang, Qingyao Li +7

Agents built around large language models continually accumulate interaction trajectories during deployment, yet their behavior typically remains fixed. Beyond updating model weigh…

cs.CV2026

VAD: Attributing Visual Evidence for Target Reconstruction in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

Kangning Zhang, Yixing Li, Shuai Shao +9

The paper proposes Visual Attribution Distillation (VAD), a counterfactual method that isolates the visual component of teacher corrections in multimodal on‑policy distillation and…

cs.LG2026

SkillRise: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Cross-Task Skill Evolution

Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen, Zhengxi Lu +13

SkillRise introduces a reinforcement‑learning framework that lets large language model agents learn and reuse transferable skills across related tasks by curating a skill document…

cs.IR2026

DiffCold: A Diffusion-based Generative Model for Cold-Start Item Recommendation

Kangning Zhang, Yingjie Qin, Weinan Zhang +2

Cold-start item recommendation remains a persistent challenge in real-world systems due to the absence of interaction histories. While prior models attempt to bridge this gap using…

cs.IR2026

MOTOR: Learning ID-free Item Representation with Token Crossing for Embedding-based Multimodal Recommendation

Kangning Zhang, Jiarui Jin, Yingjie Qin +4

While multimodal recommendation models have effectively integrated visual and textual information, their reliance on unique ID embeddings constitutes a fundamental performance bott…