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Large language models (LLMs) show promise for personalized financial recommendations but are hampered by context limits, hallucinations, and a lack of behavioral grounding. Our prior work, FLARKO, embedded structured knowledge graphs (KGs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Fernando Spadea , Oshani Seneviratne

Recommender systems have become increasingly vital in our daily lives, helping to alleviate the problem of information overload across various user-oriented online services. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has yielded…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shijie Wang , Wenqi Fan , Yue Feng , Shanru Lin , Xinyu Ma , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin

Large Language Model agents often retrieve context from knowledge bases that lack structural consistency with the agent's current reasoning state, leading to incoherent reasoning chains. We introduce Path-Constrained Retrieval (PCR), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Joseph Oladokun

E-commerce pre-sales dialogue aims to understand and elicit user needs and preferences for the items they are seeking so as to provide appropriate recommendations. Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) learn user representation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yuanxing Liu , Wei-Nan Zhang , Yifan Chen , Yuchi Zhang , Haopeng Bai , Fan Feng , Hengbin Cui , Yongbin Li , Wanxiang Che

Improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) in complex question-answering (QA) scenarios has always been a research focal point. Recent studies have attempted to enhance LLMs' performance by combining step-wise planning with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Junjie Wang , Mingyang Chen , Binbin Hu , Dan Yang , Ziqi Liu , Yue Shen , Peng Wei , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jinjie Gu , Jun Zhou , Jeff Z. Pan , Wen Zhang , Huajun Chen

Graph-to-text generation aims to generate fluent texts from graph-based data. In this paper, we investigate two recently proposed pretrained language models (PLMs) and analyze the impact of different task-adaptive pretraining strategies for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Martin Schmitt , Hinrich Schütze , Iryna Gurevych

Large Language Models (LLM) can struggle with reasoning ability and planning tasks. Many prompting techniques have been developed to assist with LLM reasoning, notably Chain-of-Thought (CoT); however, these techniques, too, have come under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Erik Goh , John Kos , Ashok Goel

Reasoning over knowledge graphs (KGs) is a challenging task that requires a deep understanding of the complex relationships between entities and the underlying logic of their relations. Current approaches rely on learning geometries to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Nurendra Choudhary , Chandan K. Reddy

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have transformed data management within the manufacturing industry, offering effective means for integrating disparate data sources through shared and structured conceptual schemas. However, harnessing the power of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sebastian Monka , Irlan Grangel-González , Stefan Schmid , Lavdim Halilaj , Marc Rickart , Oliver Rudolph , Rui Dias

Knowledge Graph (KG)-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently propelled significant advances in complex reasoning tasks, thanks to their broad domain knowledge and contextual awareness. Unfortunately, current methods often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Manzong Huang , Chenyang Bu , Yi He , Xindong Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit emerging in-context learning abilities through prompt engineering. The recent progress in large-scale generative models has further expanded their use in real-world language applications. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Linyi Yang , Shuibai Zhang , Zhuohao Yu , Guangsheng Bao , Yidong Wang , Jindong Wang , Ruochen Xu , Wei Ye , Xing Xie , Weizhu Chen , Yue Zhang

In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has played a significant role in various Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications such as chatbots, text generation, and language translation. The emergence of large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Amanda Kau , Xuzeng He , Aishwarya Nambissan , Aland Astudillo , Hui Yin , Amir Aryani

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) is a crucial task in natural language processing that requires reasoning over knowledge graphs (KGs) to answer natural language questions. Recent methods utilizing large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xiujun Zhou , Pingjian Zhang , Deyou Tang

The chit-chat-based conversational recommendation systems (CRS) provide item recommendations to users through natural language interactions. To better understand user's intentions, external knowledge graphs (KG) have been introduced into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Tong Zhang , Yong Liu , Peixiang Zhong , Chen Zhang , Hao Wang , Chunyan Miao

The wide applicability of pretrained transformer models (PTMs) for natural language tasks is well demonstrated, but their ability to comprehend short phrases of text is less explored. To this end, we evaluate different PTMs from the lens of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi , Varsha Embar , Karthik Raghunathan

Knowledge Graph (KG) can effectively integrate valuable information from massive data, and thus has been rapidly developed and widely used in many fields. Traditional KG construction methods rely on manual annotation, which often consumes a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qiubai Zhu , Qingwang Wang , Haibin Yuan , Wei Chen , Tao Shen

The ideal conversational recommender system (CRS) acts like a savvy salesperson, adapting its language and suggestions to each user's level of expertise. However, most current systems treat all users as experts, leading to frustrating and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ivica Kostric , Ujwal Gadiraju , Krisztian Balog

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into recommendation systems has revealed promising potential through their capacity to extract world knowledge for enhanced reasoning capabilities. However, current methodologies that adopt…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Lingyu Mu , Hao Deng , Haibo Xing , Kaican Lin , Zhitong Zhu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Zhengxiao Liu , Zheng Lin , Jinxin Hu

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations through multi-turn natural language interactions with users. Given the strong interaction and reasoning skills of Large Language Models (LLMs), leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiaoyan Zhao , Ming Yan , Yang Zhang , Yang Deng , Jian Wang , Fengbin Zhu , Yilun Qiu , Hong Cheng , Tat-Seng Chua

Understanding the dynamics of counseling conversations is an important task, yet it is a challenging NLP problem regardless of the recent advance of Transformer-based pre-trained language models. This paper proposes a systematic approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Younghun Lee , Dan Goldwasser , Laura Schwab Reese