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Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM
Haoting Wang, Jianling Wang, Hao Li +9
Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…
User Feedback Alignment for LLM-powered Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems
Jianling Wang, Yifan Liu, Yinghao Sun +11
Exploration, the act of broadening user experiences beyond their established preferences, is challenging in large-scale recommendation systems due to feedback loops and limited sig…
Can Explanations Improve Recommendations? Evidence from Prediction-Informed Explanations
Yuyan Wang, Pan Li, Minmin Chen
Recommender systems are central to digital platforms, yet they face a fundamental trade-off between accuracy and explainability. Black-box models achieve strong performance but lac…
Reward Shaping for User Satisfaction in a REINFORCE Recommender
Konstantina Christakopoulou, Can Xu, Sai Zhang +10
How might we design Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based recommenders that encourage aligning user trajectories with the underlying user satisfaction? Three research questions are key…
Learning to Augment for Casual User Recommendation
Jianling Wang, Ya Le, Bo Chang +3
Users who come to recommendation platforms are heterogeneous in activity levels. There usually exists a group of core users who visit the platform regularly and consume a large bod…
Recency Dropout for Recurrent Recommender Systems
Bo Chang, Can Xu, Matthieu Lê +5
Recurrent recommender systems have been successful in capturing the temporal dynamics in users' activity trajectories. However, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are known to have d…