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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users share complex and diverse preferences over extended interactions. However, assessing how well LLMs can follow these preferences in realistic,…

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Given a sequence of sets, where each set has a timestamp and contains an arbitrary number of elements, temporal sets prediction aims to predict the elements in the subsequent set. Previous studies for temporal sets prediction mainly focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Le Yu , Zihang Liu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Chuanren Liu , Weifeng Lv

User preference modeling is a vital yet challenging problem in personalized product search. In recent years, latent space based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance by jointly learning semantic representations of products,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Fan Lu , Qimai Li , Bo Liu , Xiao-Ming Wu , Xiaotong Zhang , Fuyu Lv , Guli Lin , Sen Li , Taiwei Jin , Keping Yang

A critical factor in the success of decision support systems is the accurate modeling of user preferences. Psychology research has demonstrated that users often develop their preferences during the elicitation process, highlighting the…

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Modeling the evolution of user preference is essential in recommender systems. Recently, dynamic graph-based methods have been studied and achieved SOTA for recommendation, majority of which focus on user's stable long-term preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Huixuan Chi , Hao Xu , Hao Fu , Mengya Liu , Mengdi Zhang , Yuji Yang , Qinfen Hao , Wei Wu

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zijian Zhang , Shuchang Liu , Ziru Liu , Rui Zhong , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao , Chunxu Zhang , Qidong Liu , Peng Jiang

In various work contexts, such as meeting scheduling, collaborating, and project planning, collective decision-making is essential but often challenging due to diverse individual preferences, varying work focuses, and power dynamics among…

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Sequential recommender systems aim to predict users' next interested item given their historical interactions. However, a long-standing issue is how to distinguish between users' long/short-term interests, which may be heterogeneous and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Muyang Li , Zijian Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Minghao Zhao , Runze Wu , Ruocheng Guo

Leveraging Large Language Models as Recommenders (LLMRec) has gained significant attention and introduced fresh perspectives in user preference modeling. Existing LLMRec approaches prioritize text semantics, usually neglecting the valuable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Jizhi Zhang , Keqin Bao , Qifan Wang , Xiangnan He

Leveraging users' long engagement histories is essential for personalized content recommendations. The success of pretrained language models (PLMs) in NLP has led to their use in encoding user histories and candidate items, framing content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Chiyu Zhang , Yifei Sun , Jun Chen , Jie Lei , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Sinong Wang , Rong Jin , Sem Park , Ning Yao , Bo Long

As e-commerce platforms expand their product catalogs, accurately recommending long-tail items becomes increasingly important for enhancing both user experience and platform revenue. A key challenge is the long-tail problem, where extreme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qingyi Lu , Haotian Lyu , Jiayun Zheng , Yang Wang , Li Zhang , Chengrui Zhou

The analysis and mining of user heterogeneous behavior are of paramount importance in recommendation systems. However, the conventional approach of incorporating various types of heterogeneous behavior into recommendation models leads to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bin Yin , Junjie Xie , Yu Qin , Zixiang Ding , Zhichao Feng , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

Recommendation systems play a critical role in enhancing user experience and engagement in various online platforms. Traditional methods, such as Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Content-Based Filtering (CBF), rely heavily on past user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaochuan Xu , Zeqiu Xu , Peiyang Yu , Jiani Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as reasoning modules in many applications. While they are efficient in certain tasks, LLMs often struggle to produce human-aligned solutions. Human-aligned decision making requires…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention in Recommendation Systems (RS) due to their extensive world knowledge and robust reasoning capabilities. However, a critical challenge lies in enabling LLMs to effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yu Xia , Rui Zhong , Hao Gu , Wei Yang , Chi Lu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly serve as the central control unit of AI agents, yet current approaches remain limited in their ability to deliver personalized interactions. While Retrieval Augmented Generation enhances LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Rebecca Westhäußer , Wolfgang Minker , Sebatian Zepf

Traditional recommendation systems are subject to a strong feedback loop by learning from and reinforcing past user-item interactions, which in turn limits the discovery of novel user interests. To address this, we introduce a hybrid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jianling Wang , Haokai Lu , Yifan Liu , He Ma , Yueqi Wang , Yang Gu , Shuzhou Zhang , Ningren Han , Shuchao Bi , Lexi Baugher , Ed Chi , Minmin Chen

Integrating diverse data modalities is crucial for enhancing the performance of personalized recommendation systems. Traditional models, which often rely on singular data sources, lack the depth needed to accurately capture the multifaceted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Luyi Ma , Xiaohan Li , Zezhong Fan , Kai Zhao , Jianpeng Xu , Jason Cho , Praveen Kanumala , Kaushiki Nag , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

Current human-AI alignment and evaluation methods for large language models (LLMs) often rely on preference signals collected immediately after an interaction. This practice implicitly treats preference as static, even though many…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Simret Araya Gebreegziabher , Allison E Sproul , Yinuo Yang , Chaoran Chen , Diego Gómez-Zará , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have quickly become an invaluable assistant for a variety of tasks. However, their effectiveness is constrained by their ability to tailor responses to human preferences and behaviors via personalization. Prior…

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