activity
20242026
collaborators

11 papers

cs.AI2026

Learning from Online User Feedback for Shopping Agents

Haobo Zhang, Kelong Mao, Sulong Xu +2

Large language model-based shopping agents are increasingly deployed in real-world e-commerce platforms, generating massive amounts of user interaction logs that provide valuable s…

cs.AI2026

ComBodied Agents: a New Paradigm of Human-Centric Agentic AI

Qianggang Ding, Xingyao Wang, Rui Feng +20

After an older adult misses a medication dose, a software agent can send another reminder and an embodied agent can bring the medication. Yet neither explains whether the person fo…

cs.AI2026

ComboShoppingBench: Evaluating LLM Agents for Budget-Constrained Basket Shopping with Coupons

Adrian Li, Kelong Mao, Yudong Guo +7

Real-world shopping often requires constructing a basket of complementary items rather than retrieving a single product. Such combo-shopping tasks arise in device setup, meal prepa…

cs.AI2026

SkillCoach: Self-Evolving Rubrics for Evaluating and Enhancing Agentic Skill-Use

Jiayin Zhu, Kelong Mao, Yudong Guo +4

Skills are becoming a reusable operational layer for LLM agents, encoding SOPs, domain rules, tool workflows, scripts, and validation routines. In realistic skill repositories, ove…

cs.IR2026

RecThinker: An Agentic Framework for Tool-Augmented Reasoning in Recommendation

Haobo Zhang, Yutao Zhu, Kelong Mao +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized recommendation agents by providing superior reasoning and flexible decision-making capabilities. However, existing methods mainly f…

cs.IR2026

ChatShopBuddy: Towards Reliable Conversational Shopping Agents via Reinforcement Learning

Yiruo Cheng, Kelong Mao, Tianhao Li +3

Conversational shopping agents represent a critical consumer-facing application of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents, yet how to effectively apply post-training Reinforceme…