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This paper introduces a novel application of Supervised Contrastive Learning (SupCon) to Imitation Learning (IL), with a focus on learning more effective state representations for agents in video game environments. The goal is to obtain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Carlos Celemin , Joseph Brennan , Pierluigi Vito Amadori , Tim Bradley

Representation learning is increasingly applied to generate representations that generalize well across multiple downstream tasks. Ensuring fairness guarantees in representation learning is crucial to prevent unfairness toward specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuhong Luo , Austin Hoag , Xintong Wang , Philip S. Thomas , Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great success in solving many challenging tasks via use of deep neural networks. Although using deep learning for RL brings immense representational power, it also causes a well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Sahir , Ercüment İlhan , Srijita Das , Matthew E. Taylor

Developing Large Language Models (LLMs) to cooperate and compete effectively within multi-agent systems (MASs) is a critical step towards more advanced intelligence. While reinforcement learning (RL) has proven effective for enhancing…

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Recommender systems operate in closed feedback loops, where user interactions reinforce popularity bias, leading to over-recommendation of already popular items while under-exposing niche or novel content. Existing bias mitigation methods,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Rahul Agarwal , Amit Jaspal , Saurabh Gupta , Omkar Vichare

In addressing the challenge of exponential scaling with the number of agents we adopt a cluster-based representation to approximately solve asymmetric games of very many players. A cluster groups together agents with a similar "strategic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Sevan G. Ficici , David C. Parkes , Avi Pfeffer

Having access to accurate game state information is of utmost importance for any artificial intelligence task including game-playing, testing, player modeling, and procedural content generation. Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chintan Trivedi , Konstantinos Makantasis , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely employed in Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs). Unlike traditional language model approaches that focus on training, all existing LLMs-based approaches are mainly centered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jianyu Wen , Jingyun Wang , Cilin Yan , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Ying Zhang

This paper explores multi-scenario optimization on large platforms using multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). We address this by treating scenarios like search, recommendation, and advertising as a cooperative, partially observable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yang Zhao , Chang Zhou , Jin Cao , Yi Zhao , Shaobo Liu , Chiyu Cheng , Xingchen Li

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a prevalent and effective methodology for real-world recommender systems, enabling learning policies from historical data and capturing user preferences. In offline RL, reward shaping…

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This study deeply explores the application of large language model (LLM) in personalized recommendation system of e-commerce. Aiming at the limitations of traditional recommendation algorithms in processing large-scale and multi-dimensional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Wei Xu , Jue Xiao , Jianlong Chen

In real-world recommender systems, different retrieval objectives are typically addressed using task-specific datasets with carefully designed model architectures. We demonstrate that Large Language Models (LLMs) can function as universal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Junguang Jiang , Yanwen Huang , Bin Liu , Xiaoyu Kong , Xinhang Li , Ziru Xu , Han Zhu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

In online advertising, recommender systems try to propose items from a list of products to potential customers according to their interests. Such systems have been increasingly deployed in E-commerce due to the rapid growth of information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Milad Vaali Esfahaani , Yanbo Xue , Peyman Setoodeh

Recommender systems usually face the issue of filter bubbles: overrecommending homogeneous items based on user features and historical interactions. Filter bubbles will grow along the feedback loop and inadvertently narrow user interests.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained traction for enhancing user long-term experiences in recommender systems by effectively exploring users' interests. However, modern recommender systems exhibit distinct user behavioral patterns among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Changshuo Zhang , Sirui Chen , Xiao Zhang , Sunhao Dai , Weijie Yu , Jun Xu

Nowadays, E-commerce is increasingly integrated into our daily lives. Meanwhile, shopping process has also changed incrementally from one behavior (purchase) to multiple behaviors (such as view, carting and purchase). Therefore, utilizing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Daqing Wu , Xiao Luo , Zeyu Ma , Chong Chen , Minghua Deng , Jinwen Ma

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a widely adopted approach for enhancing LLMs in scenarios that demand extensive factual knowledge. However, current RAG evaluations concentrate primarily on correctness, which may not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Vinh Nguyen , Cuong Dang , Jiahao Zhang , Hoa Tran , Minh Tran , Trinh Chau , Thai Le , Lu Cheng , Suhang Wang

Recommender system has been deployed in a large amount of real-world applications, profoundly influencing people's daily life and production.Traditional recommender models mostly collect as comprehensive as possible user behaviors for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lei Wang , Xu Chen , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong

With the recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL), there have been tremendous interests in employing RL for recommender systems. However, directly training and evaluating a new RL-based recommendation algorithm needs to collect users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Xiangyu Zhao , Long Xia , Lixin Zou , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang