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36 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.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…

cs.CL2026

LatentSkill: From In-Context Textual Skills to In-Weight Latent Skills for LLM Agents

Aofan Yu, Chenyu Zhou, Tianyi Xu +8

Agent systems increasingly use textual skills to encode reusable task procedures, but injecting these skills into the prompt at every step incurs substantial context overhead and e…