works on

From the 1 of 31 linked papers with an AI index.

activity
20242026
collaborators

31 papers

cs.IR2026

Making Collaborative Signals Count: Graph-Aware Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation

Fenglin Yan, Bohao Wang, Jian Zhang +5

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted as backbones for recommender systems. However, their language-centric pretraining makes it difficult to capture collaborative…

cs.IR2026

SmartGR: Hierarchy and Beam-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Generative Recommendation

Ziheng Zhang, Yu Cui, Bohao Wang +6

Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for recommender systems. Scaling up GR models can improve recommendation performance, but it also substantially i…

cs.IR2026

IMFuse: Instance-Aware Multi-Layer Fusion for LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation

Yuheng Zheng, Yu Cui, Bin Wu +4

The paper introduces IMFuse, a method that adaptively combines representations from multiple layers of large language models to improve sequential recommendation, using instance-aw…

cs.IR2026

SpecFormer: Mitigating Embedding and Attention Collapse via Spectral-Aware Transformer for Recommendation

Yu Cui, Yi Xu, Jiahao Wang +6

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains; however, directly applying their standard self-attention mechanism to recommendation often yields…

cs.IR2026

LBR: Towards Mitigating Length Bias in Large Language Models for Recommendation

Hongchen Li, Bohao Wang, Jingbang Chen +5

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful backbones for recommender systems by reformulating recommendation as a token-level generation task. Despite their pro…

cs.IR2026

The Pitfall of Scaling Up: Uncovering and Mitigating Popularity Bias Amplification in Scaling Transformer-based Recommenders

Weiqin Yang, Yue Pan, Chongming Gao +4

We identify a critical pitfall in scaling transformer-based sequential recommenders: while increasing model size improves recommendation accuracy, it simultaneously amplifies popul…