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Modern large-scale recommendation systems are typically constructed as multi-stage pipelines, encompassing pre-ranking, ranking, and re-ranking phases. While traditional recommendation research typically focuses on optimizing a specific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xidong Wu , Yue Zhuan , Ruoqiao Wei , Hangxin Chen , Di Bai , Jintao Liu , Xinyi Wang , Xue Wang , Luoshu Wang , Xinwu Cheng

We propose a reinforcement learning-based approach to optimize conversational strategies for product recommendation across diverse industries. As organizations increasingly adopt intelligent agents to support sales and service operations,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kang Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in recommender systems, where supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is commonly used for adaptation. Subsequent studies further introduce preference learning to incorporate negative samples into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Bingqian Li , Bowen Zheng , Xiaolei Wang , Long Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Sheng Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-rong Wen

Recommendation systems must optimize multiple objectives while satisfying hard business constraints such as fairness and coverage. For example, an e-commerce platform may require every recommendation list to include items from multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Guilin Zhang , Kai Zhao , Jeffrey Friedman , Xu Chu

Driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating them into recommendation tasks has gained interest due to their strong semantic understanding and prompt flexibility. Prior work encoded user-item interactions or metadata into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Keyu Zhao , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agent-based recommendation systems with strong semantic understanding and flexible reasoning capabilities. While LLM-based agents deployed in the cloud offer powerful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jing Long , Sirui Huang , Huan Huo , Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Guandong Xu

Benefiting from the strong reasoning capabilities, Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in recommender systems. Various efforts have been made to distill knowledge from LLMs to enhance collaborative models,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xihong Yang , Heming Jing , Zixing Zhang , Jindong Wang , Huakang Niu , Shuaiqiang Wang , Yu Lu , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Defu Lian , Erxue Min

Mental health assessment is crucial for early intervention and effective treatment, yet traditional clinician-based approaches are limited by the shortage of qualified professionals. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have sparked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jinpeng Hu , Ao Wang , Qianqian Xie , Hui Ma , Zhuo Li , Dan Guo

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in interactive systems necessitates a deep alignment with the nuanced and dynamic preferences of individual users. Current alignment techniques predominantly address universal human values or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xiaotian Zhang , Yuan Wang , Ruizhe Chen , Zeya Wang , Runchen Hou , Zuozhu Liu

Recent advancements in generative AI have significantly increased interest in personalized agents. With increased personalization, there is also a greater need for being able to trust decision-making and action taking capabilities of these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Chirag Shah , Hideo Joho , Kirandeep Kaur , Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced natural language processing, but these models often generate factually incorrect information, known as "hallucination". Initial retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yujia Zhou , Zheng Liu , Zhicheng Dou

With the rise of LLMs, there is an increasing need for intelligent recommendation assistants that can handle complex queries and provide personalized, reasoning-driven recommendations. LLM-based recommenders show potential but face…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jiani Huang , Shijie Wang , Liangbo Ning , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Recent advanced LLM-powered agent systems have exhibited their remarkable capabilities in tackling complex, long-horizon tasks. Nevertheless, they still suffer from inherent limitations in resource efficiency, context management, and…

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing the next-generation recommender systems (RSs) based on pretrained large language models (LLMs). However, the semantic gap between natural language and recommendation tasks is still not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yaochen Zhu , Liang Wu , Qi Guo , Liangjie Hong , Jundong Li

Personalizing conversational agents can enhance the quality of conversations and increase user engagement. However, they often lack external knowledge to appropriately tend to a user's persona. This is particularly crucial for practical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Kanak Raj , Kaushik Roy , Vamshi Bonagiri , Priyanshul Govil , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayanan , Manas Gaur

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have sparked growing interest in building generalist agents that can learn through online interactions. However, applying reinforcement learning (RL) to train LLM agents in multi-turn,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hanchen Zhang , Xiao Liu , Bowen Lv , Xueqiao Sun , Bohao Jing , Iat Long Iong , Zhenyu Hou , Zehan Qi , Hanyu Lai , Yifan Xu , Rui Lu , Hongning Wang , Jie Tang , Yuxiao Dong

This paper presents a novel approach for unified retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using the recent emerging large language model (LLM) agent concept. Specifically, Agent LLM, which utilizes LLM as fundamental controllers, has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hoang Pham , Thuy-Duong Nguyen , Khac-Hoai Nam Bui

While large language model (LLM) multi-agent systems achieve superior reasoning performance through iterative debate, practical deployment is limited by their high computational cost and error propagation. This paper proposes AgentArk, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yinyi Luo , Yiqiao Jin , Weichen Yu , Mengqi Zhang , Srijan Kumar , Xiaoxiao Li , Weijie Xu , Xin Chen , Jindong Wang

High-quality representations are a core requirement for effective recommendation. In this work, we study the problem of LLM-based descriptor generation, i.e., keyphrase-like natural language item representation generation frameworks with…

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external, domain-specific data into the generative process. While LLMs are highly capable, they often rely on static, pre-trained datasets, limiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Aniruddha Salve , Saba Attar , Mahesh Deshmukh , Sayali Shivpuje , Arnab Mitra Utsab