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While large language models (LLMs) have proven effective in leveraging textual data for recommendations, their application to multimodal recommendation tasks remains relatively underexplored. Although LLMs can process multimodal information…

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User simulators can rapidly generate a large volume of timely user behavior data, providing a testing platform for reinforcement learning-based recommender systems, thus accelerating their iteration and optimization. However, prevalent user…

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It has been an important task for recommender systems to suggest satisfying activities to a group of users in people's daily social life. The major challenge in this task is how to aggregate personal preferences of group members to infer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hongzhi Yin , Qinyong Wang , Kai Zheng , Zhixu Li , Xiaofang Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive potential to simulate human behavior. We identify a fundamental challenge in using them to simulate experiments: when LLM-simulated subjects are blind to the experimental design (as is…

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This paper presents a novel application of large language models (LLMs) to enhance user comprehension of privacy policies through an interactive dialogue agent. We demonstrate that LLMs significantly outperform traditional models in tasks…

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Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing education, with LLM-based agents playing a key role in simulating student behavior. A major challenge in student simulation is modeling the diverse learning patterns of students at various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tao Wu , Jingyuan Chen , Wang Lin , Mengze Li , Yumeng Zhu , Ang Li , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu

Simulating collective decision-making involves more than aggregating individual behaviors; it emerges from dynamic interactions among individuals. While large language models (LLMs) offer strong potential for social simulation, achieving…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Qirui Mi , Mengyue Yang , Xiangning Yu , Zhiyu Zhao , Cheng Deng , Bo An , Haifeng Zhang , Xu Chen , Jun Wang

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP). In practical scenarios like recommendations, as users increasingly seek personalized experiences, it becomes crucial to incorporate user…

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Given e-commerce scenarios that user profiles are invisible, session-based recommendation is proposed to generate recommendation results from short sessions. Previous work only considers the user's sequential behavior in the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Jing Li , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Ma

Recommender systems that learn from implicit feedback often use large volumes of a single type of implicit user feedback, such as clicks, to enhance the prediction of sparse target behavior such as purchases. Using multiple types of…

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Human behavior models are essential as behavior references and for simulating human agents in virtual safety assessment of automated vehicles (AVs), yet current models face a trade-off between interpretability and flexibility.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Samir H. A. Mohammad , Wouter Mooi , Arkady Zgonnikov

Modeling holistic user interests is important for improving recommendation systems but is challenged by high computational cost and difficulty in handling diverse information with full behavior context. Existing search-based methods might…

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Like most of NLP, models for human-centered NLP tasks -- tasks attempting to assess author-level information -- predominantly use representations derived from hidden states of Transformer-based LLMs. However, what component of the LM is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Nikita Soni , Pranav Chitale , Khushboo Singh , Niranjan Balasubramanian , H. Andrew Schwartz

Large Language Models (LLMs) have reshaped user profiling, yet current evaluations mainly focus on static data snapshots. This paradigm overlooks the reality of personalized systems, where User-Generated Content (UGC) arrives continuously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sizhe Wang , Feiyu Duan , Juelin Wang , Liwen Zhang , Zhongyu Wei

The visual pathway of human brain includes two sub-pathways, ie, the ventral pathway and the dorsal pathway, which focus on object identification and dynamic information modeling, respectively. Both pathways comprise multi-layer structures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhifan Wan , Jie Zhang , Changzhen Li , Shiguang Shan

Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) has emerged as an essential tool for simulating social networks, encompassing diverse phenomena such as information dissemination, influence dynamics, and community formation. However, manually configuring varied…

In an ideal design pipeline, user interface (UI) design is intertwined with user research to validate decisions, yet studies are often resource-constrained during early exploration. Recent advances in multimodal large language models…

Term-based sparse representations dominate the first-stage text retrieval in industrial applications, due to its advantage in efficiency, interpretability, and exact term matching. In this paper, we study the problem of transferring the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Yang Bai , Xiaoguang Li , Gang Wang , Chaoliang Zhang , Lifeng Shang , Jun Xu , Zhaowei Wang , Fangshan Wang , Qun Liu

Modeling social media public opinion evolution is essential for governance decision-making. Traditional epidemic models and rule-based agent-based models (ABMs) fail to capture the cognitive processes and adaptive behaviors of real users.…

General Literature · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yongmao Zhang , Kai Qiao , Zhengyan Wang , Ningning Liang , Dekui Ma , Wenyao Sun , Jian Chen , Bin Yan

Agent based modelling (ABM) is a computational approach to modelling complex systems by specifying the behaviour of autonomous decision-making components or agents in the system and allowing the system dynamics to emerge from their…

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