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The increase in data volume, computational resources, and model parameters during training has led to the development of numerous large-scale industrial retrieval models for recommendation tasks. However, effectively and efficiently…
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In inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), an agent seeks to replicate expert demonstrations through interactions with the environment. Traditionally, IRL is treated as an adversarial game, where an adversary searches over reward models, and…
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