activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

cs.IR2026

AgentDR: Dynamic Recommendation with Implicit Item-Item Relations via LLM-based Agents

Mingdai Yang, Nurendra Choudhary, Jiangshu Du +4

Recent agent-based recommendation frameworks aim to simulate user behaviors by incorporating memory mechanisms and prompting strategies, but they struggle with hallucinating non-ex…

cs.LG2026

Optimas: Optimizing Compound AI Systems with Globally Aligned Local Rewards

Shirley Wu, Parth Sarthi, Shiyu Zhao +10

Compound AI systems integrating multiple components, such as Large Language Models, specialized tools, and traditional machine learning models, are increasingly deployed to solve c…

cs.CL2025

GT2Vec: Large Language Models as Multi-Modal Encoders for Text and Graph-Structured Data

Jiacheng Lin, Kun Qian, Haoyu Han +9

Graph-structured information offers rich contextual information that can enhance language models by providing structured relationships and hierarchies, leading to more expressive e…

cs.LG2024

AvaTaR: Optimizing LLM Agents for Tool Usage via Contrastive Reasoning

Shirley Wu, Shiyu Zhao, Qian Huang +7

Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated impressive capabilities in utilizing external tools and knowledge to boost accuracy and reduce hallucinations. However, developi…

cs.IR2024

STaRK: Benchmarking LLM Retrieval on Textual and Relational Knowledge Bases

Shirley Wu, Shiyu Zhao, Michihiro Yasunaga +7

Answering real-world complex queries, such as complex product search, often requires accurate retrieval from semi-structured knowledge bases that involve blend of unstructured (e.g…