3 papers
cs.AI2026
The User Asks, Platforms Compete: How Agentic Recommendation Markets Take Shape
Deyao Hong, Kehan Zheng, Qian Li +3
Online recommendation has traditionally taken place after a user enters a platform, which determines the candidate pool and the ranking shown to the user. LLM-based user agents ena…
cs.AI2026
Frontier-Eng: Benchmarking Self-Evolving Agents on Real-World Engineering Tasks with Generative Optimization
Yizhe Chi, Deyao Hong, Dapeng Jiang +18
Current LLM agent benchmarks, which predominantly focus on binary pass/fail tasks such as code generation or search-based question answering, often neglect the value of real-world…
cs.IR2026
Reasoning to Rank: An End-to-End Solution for Exploiting Large Language Models for Recommendation
Kehan Zheng, Deyao Hong, Qian Li +4
Recommender systems are tasked to infer users' evolving preferences and rank items aligned with their intents, which calls for in-depth reasoning beyond pattern-based scoring. Rece…