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Many of us now treat LLMs as modern-day oracles asking it almost any kind of question. However, consulting an LLM does not have to be a single turn activity. But long multi-turn interactions can get tedious if it is simply to clarify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Riya Naik , Ashwin Srinivasan , Swati Agarwal , Estrid He

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) lifts the factuality of Large Language Models (LLMs) by injecting external knowledge, yet it falls short on problems that demand multi-step inference; conversely, purely reasoning-oriented approaches…

We aim to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) for embodied decision making. While a significant body of work has been leveraging LLMs for decision making in embodied environments, we still lack a systematic understanding of their…

Automatic heuristic design (AHD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). Recent works show that large language models (LLMs), when integrated into well-designed frameworks (i.e.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haoze Lv , Ning Lu , Ziang Zhou , Shengcai Liu

Agentic frameworks powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) can be useful tools in scientific workflows by enabling human-AI co-creation. A key challenge is recommending the next steps during workflow creation without relying solely on LLMs,…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in generating natural language explanations for recommender systems. However, existing methods often overlook the sequential dynamics of user behavior and rely on evaluation metrics…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Gangyi Zhang , Runzhe Teng , Chongming Gao

Recommender systems are tasked to infer users' evolving preferences and rank items aligned with their intents, which calls for in-depth reasoning beyond pattern-based scoring. Recent efforts start to leverage large language models (LLMs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Kehan Zheng , Deyao Hong , Qian Li , Jun Zhang , Huan Yu , Jie Jiang , Hongning Wang

Interactive recommendation is a typical information-seeking task that allows users to interactively express their needs through natural language and obtain personalized recommendations. Large language model-powered (LLM-powered) agents have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Haocheng Yu , Yaxiong Wu , Hao Wang , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Yawen Li , Yuyang Ye , Junping Du , Enhong Chen

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

Large language models (LLM) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for a variety of natural language processing tasks, bringing a new surge of combining LLM with recommendation systems, termed as LLM-based RS. Current approaches generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xiaohan Yu , Li Zhang , Xin Zhao , Yue Wang , Zhongrui Ma

Large language models (LLMs) have introduced new paradigms for recommender systems by enabling richer semantic understanding and incorporating implicit world knowledge. In this study, we propose a systematic taxonomy that classifies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Wei-Hsiang Huang , Chen-Wei Ke , Wei-Ning Chiu , Yu-Xuan Su , Chun-Chun Yang , Chieh-Yuan Cheng , Yun-Nung Chen , Pu-Jen Cheng

Sequential recommendation systems aim to predict users' next likely interaction based on their history. However, these systems face data sparsity and cold-start problems. Utilizing data from other domains, known as multi-domain methods, is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zuoli Tang , Zhaoxin Huan , Zihao Li , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Hu , Chilin Fu , Jun Zhou , Lixin Zou , Chenliang Li

Haptic technology has seen significant growth, yet a lack of awareness of existing haptic device design knowledge hinders development. This paper addresses these limitations by leveraging advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Yang Liu , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Recommender Systems (RSs) have become the cornerstone of various applications such as e-commerce and social media platforms. The evolution of RSs is paramount in the digital era, in which personalised user experience is tailored to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tendai Mukande , Esraa Ali , Annalina Caputo , Ruihai Dong , Noel OConnor

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language tasks requiring complex reasoning, yet their application in agentic, multi-step reasoning within interactive environments remains a difficult challenge.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Pranav Putta , Edmund Mills , Naman Garg , Sumeet Motwani , Chelsea Finn , Divyansh Garg , Rafael Rafailov

The recent breakthrough of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing has sparked exploration in recommendation systems, however, their limited domain-specific knowledge remains a critical bottleneck. Specifically, LLMs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xiaohan Yu , Li Zhang , Xin Zhao , Yue Wang

The powerful reasoning and generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have inspired researchers to apply them to reasoning-based recommendation tasks, which require in-depth reasoning about user interests and the generation of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shihao Cai , Chongming Gao , Haoyan Liu , Wentao Shi , Jianshan Sun , Ruiming Tang , Fuli Feng

Modern recommender systems struggle to effectively utilize the rich, yet high-dimensional and noisy, multi-modal features generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Treating these features as static inputs decouples them from the core…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiahao Tian , Zhenkai Wang

Large language model (LLM) based recommendation agents personalize what they know through evolving per-user semantic memory, yet how they reason remains a universal, static system prompt shared identically across all users. This asymmetry…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhen Tao , Riwei Lai , Chenyun Yu , Weixin Chen , Li Chen , Beibei Kong , Lei Cheng , Chengxiang Zhuo , Zang Li , Qingqiang Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have revolutionized natural language processing, showing remarkable linguistic proficiency and reasoning capabilities. However, their application in strategic multi-agent decision-making environments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Chuanhao Li , Runhan Yang , Tiankai Li , Milad Bafarassat , Kourosh Sharifi , Dirk Bergemann , Zhuoran Yang