arXiv:2607. 14161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pinterest is where people turn inspiration into action as users browse ideas, then take steps toward realization, often by discovering shoppable content.
By Junpeng Hou, XianXing Zhang, Sai Xiao, Derek Cheng, Darren Reger, Olafur Gudmundsson, Mehdi Ben Ayed, Zhiqing Rao, Huizhong Duan
arXiv:2607. 04270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful backbones for recommender systems by reformulating recommendation as a token-level generation task.
By Hongchen Li, Bohao Wang, Jingbang Chen, Weiqin Yang, Hang Pan, Bingde Hu, Can Wang, Jiawei Chen
Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful backbones for recommender systems by reformulating recommendation as a token-level generation task. Despite their promise, we identify a pervasive yet underexplored issue: $\textit{Length Bias}$.
arXiv:2606. 17276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising direction for recommender systems.
By Sunwoo Kim, Sunkyung Lee, Clark Mingxuan Ju, Donald Loveland, Bhuvesh Kumar, Kijung Shin, Neil Shah, Liam Collins
arXiv:2607. 27172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional search systems are optimized to retrieve items that strictly match a query, often prioritizing precision over recall.
By Ji Xin, Xiao Xiao, Ishan Bhatt, Vinesh Gudla, Trace Levinson, Raochuan Fan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Prakash Putta, Tejaswi Tenneti
Neural language models trained on large crowdsourced corpora frequently exploit spurious surface patterns tied to target labels without true linguistic or causal relevance, boosting benchmark performance while failing on adversarial or out-of-distribution inputs. Existing approaches either require manual specification of the feature vocabulary or automate discovery only partially, leaving the gap between dataset-level correlation and model-level exploitation unaddressed.
The paper examines how large language models (LLMs) can be biased by irrelevant social contexts when evaluating teachers, using a large U.S. classroom transcript dataset. It shows that spurious contexts can shift model ratings by up to 1.48 points on a 7‑point scale and that standard mitigation methods like SFT and DPO are insufficient. The authors introduce Debiasing‑DPO, a method that combines contrastive reasoning‑augmented DPO with SFT, which reduces bias by 84% and improves predictive accuracy by 52% on Llama and Qwen Instruct models.
By Hyunji Nam, Dorottya Demszky
arXiv:2608. 09209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural language models trained on large crowdsourced corpora frequently exploit spurious surface patterns tied to target labels without true linguistic or causal relevance, boosting benchmark performance while failing on adversarial or out-of-distribution inputs.
By Chidaksh Ravuru, Shashank Srivastava
LLMAR is a tuning‑free recommendation framework designed for sparse, text‑rich industrial B2B domains. It transforms user behavioral history into structured semantic motives using LLM inference, employs a reflection loop to self‑correct hallucinations, and operates cost‑effectively with asynchronous batch processing. Experiments on MovieLens‑1M, Amazon Prime Pantry, and a construction risk dataset show LLMAR surpasses state‑of‑the‑art learning models, achieving up to a 54.6% nDCG@10 improvement while keeping inference costs around $1 per 1,000 users.
By Ryogo Hishikawa, Ichiro Kataoka, Shinya Yuda
arXiv:2608. 10209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feedback signals used to train Large Language Models (LLMs) are the primary driver of their behavior and our main lever for instilling alignment with human values and objectives.
By Alec Harris, Kasey Corra, Archie Chaudhury, Yixiong Hao
arXiv:2606. 09891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ranking in digital marketplaces is a dynamic exposure-allocation mechanism: displayed items shape discovery trajectories and success events logged by the platform to update future allocation policies.
By Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, Sina Baharlouei, Abraham Bagherjeiran
arXiv:2607. 16240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs) such as DPO have become a common way to post-train and align LLMs with human preferences.
By Shawn Im, Federico Danieli, Skyler Seto, Barry-John Theobald, Katherine Metcalf