activity
20242026
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8 papers

cs.CL2026

CAST: Game Solvers as Turn-Level Teachers for LLM Agents

Yu Wang, Yi-Kai Zhang, Wentao Shi +8

Training large language models (LLMs) to act in long-horizon games is a promising step toward generalist decision-making, yet reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR)…

cs.IR2026

Intuition-Guided Latent Reasoning for LLM-Based Recommendation

Chang Liu, Yimeng Bai, Xiaoyan Zhao +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities in complex problem-solving tasks, motivating their use for preference reasoning in recommender syst…

cs.AI2026

Look Before You Leap: Autonomous Exploration for LLM Agents

Ziang Ye, Wentao Shi, Yuxin Liu +6

Large language model based agents often fail in unfamiliar environments due to premature exploitation: a tendency to act on prior knowledge before acquiring sufficient environment-…

cs.IR2026

Objective Shaping with Hard Negatives: Windowed Partial AUC Optimization for RL-based LLM Recommenders

Wentao Shi, Qifan Wang, Chen Chen +7

Reinforcement learning (RL) effectively optimizes Large Language Model (LLM)-based recommenders by contrasting positive and negative items. Empirically, training with beam-search n…

cs.IR2026

Verifiable Reasoning for LLM-based Generative Recommendation

Xinyu Lin, Hanqing Zeng, Hanchao Yu +8

Reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) has recently shown strong potential in enhancing generative recommendation through deep understanding of complex user preference. Existing…

cs.CL2025

Assistant-Guided Mitigation of Teacher Preference Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge

Zhuo Liu, Moxin Li, Xun Deng +2

LLM-as-a-Judge employs large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, to evaluate the quality of LLM-generated responses, gaining popularity for its cost-effectiveness and strong ali…