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26 papers

cs.AI2026

ODYSSE: Episode-wise Policy Optimization for Personalized Agentic Reasoning

Jiaqi Zhang, Tong Chen, Junliang Yu +2

Agentic systems have rapidly advanced in their ability to interact with real-world environments, leverage external tools, and provide services for users. However, unlike natural-wo…

cs.IR2026

VaLiDRec: Variable-Length LLM-Aligned Semantic IDs for Generative Recommendation

Shutong Qiao, Wei Yuan, Tong Chen +3

Generative recommendation commonly represents items using fixed-length semantic identifiers (SIDs) constructed through clustering and quantization. However, these artificial codes…

cs.DB2026

FINER-SQL: Boosting Small Language Models for Text-to-SQL

Thanh Dat Hoang, Thanh Trung Huynh, Matthias Weidlich +4

Large language models have driven major advances in Text-to-SQL generation. However, they suffer from high computational cost, long latency, and data privacy concerns, which make t…

cs.IR2026

ProMax: Exploring the Potential of LLM-derived Profiles with Distribution Shaping for Recommender Systems

Yi Zhang, Yiwen Zhang, Kai Zheng +2

The remarkable text understanding and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have revitalized the field of general recommendation based on implicit user feedback.…

cs.IR2026

Self-Distilled Reinforcement Learning for Co-Evolving Agentic Recommender Systems

Zongwei Wang, Min Gao, Hongzhi Yin +5

Large language model-empowered agentic recommender systems (ARS) reformulate recommendation as a multi-turn interaction between a recommender agent and a user agent, enabling itera…

cs.IR2026

Federated User Behavior Modeling for Privacy-Preserving LLM Recommendation

Lei Guo, Hongyun Yang, Pengjie Ren +3

Large Language Models have shown great success in recommender systems. However, the limited and sparse nature of user data often restricts the LLM's ability to effectively model be…