activity
20242026
collaborators

50 papers

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.CL2026

Fast, Slow, and Tool-augmented Thinking for LLMs: A Review

Xinda Jia, Jinpeng Li, Zezhong Wang +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in reasoning across diverse domains. However, effective reasoning in real-world tasks requires adapting the reaso…

cs.CL2026

BALTO: Balanced Token-Level Policy Optimization for Hallucination Mitigation

Ning Li, Zixuan Guo, Yan Xu +7

Hallucinations remain a major obstacle to deploying large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive settings, where generated responses must be faithfully grounded in provided…

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.AI2026

SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior

Zhiyu Chen, Zihan Guo, Bo Huang +4

Agent Skills augment large language model (LLM) agents with procedural knowledge at inference time, but current benchmarks rarely distinguish what a Skill says from how it is organ…

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…