arXiv:2609.37800v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Many recommender services repeatedly encounter cold-start cohorts, where new users arrive with little or no interaction history. This creates two cha...
By Serafima Lebedeva, Sumantrak Mukherjee, Ali Arshad Sadal, Ilias Ek\c{s}i, Rahul Sharma, Julia Mueller, Theresa Dombrowski, Jakob Karolus, Viktor Bengs, Eyke H\"ullermeier, Sebastian Vollmer
arXiv:2604. 09549v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recommender systems are central to online services, enabling users to navigate through massive amounts of content across various domains.
By Nicolas Bougie, Gian Maria Marconi, Xiaotong Ye, Narimasa Watanabe
The paper presents a method for fine‑tuning a large language model (LLM) recommender to generate personalized, non‑harmful explanations for its recommendations. By training two LLM‑judge reward models and using constrained GRPO, the authors achieve a significant increase in the PASS rate for all three criteria, from 0.649 to 0.956 on their own judges and from 0.677 to 0.931 on an independent judge. The fine‑tuned model maintains its original recommendation performance, demonstrating that LLM‑based recommenders can be adapted to complex tasks without loss of effectiveness.
By Jiashu He, Emma Yanyang Kong, JJ Tan, David Fagnan
arXiv:2606. 30863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents typically assume an expert user -- one with well-formed preferences about what they want -- and default to clarifying questions whenever the task is underspecified.
By Irena Saracay, Ludwig Schmidt, Carlos Guestrin
arXiv:2609.15598v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising end-to-end paradigm for personalized recommendation. However, user preferences continuously evol...
By Xinyu Lin, Zhuosong Jiang, Zixiao Suo, Siqin Wang, Hanqing Zeng, Hanchao Yu, Yinglong Xia, Jiang Zhang, Aashu Singh, Fei Liu, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Yang Song, Qifan Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv:2606. 15306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We envision continually learning agentic systems that become more useful over time: as they encounter sequences of related tasks, they should infer the hidden structure shared across those tasks and use it to improve future decisions.
By Daksh Mittal, Tommaso Castellani, Thomson Yen, Naimeng Ye, Fangyu Wu, Minghui Chen, Tiffany Cai, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, William Zeng, Hongseok Namkoong
arXiv:2603. 29247v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based shopping agents increasingly rely on long purchase histories and multi-turn interactions for personalization, yet naively appending raw history to prompts is often ineffective due to noise, length, and relevance mismatch.
By Zhiyuan Peng, Xuyang Wu, Huaixiao Tou, Yi Fang, Yu Gong
CORAL is an LLM‑native harness that automates continual optimization of production recommender systems. It operates in a closed loop: an agent observes system signals, reasons over past decisions, and uses tools—including a numerical optimizer—to reconfigure the recommender while staying within a fixed operating budget. In A/B experiments on two large social platforms, CORAL improved engagement without extra serving cost on one platform and reduced serving cost without harming engagement on the other, demonstrating that a single agentic loop can replace manual engineering for ongoing system tuning.
By Muhammad Rafay Azhar, Yuhang Zhou, Gilbert Jiang, Yuchen Wang, Rahul Sharma, Matthew DeSousa, Jiayi Liu, Xin Guo, Lizhu Zhang, Xiangjun Fan
arXiv:2609.07575v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: This work introduces an alternative view of efficient exploration and studies its theoretical and empirical implications in the absence of extrinsic...
By Mikel Malag\'on, Jon Vadillo, Josu Ceberio, Michael Bowling, Jose A. Lozano
arXiv:2608. 04625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial recommendation strategy iteration heavily relies on large-scale A/B experimentation.
By Zhuohang Jiang, Yuxin Chen, Yongsen Pan, Zheng Hu, Wenqi Fan, Qing Li, Hongyang Wang, Jun Wang, Wenwu Ou
arXiv:2609.37544v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Content-generation agents continuously receive impressions, clicks, conversions, and negative feedback from recommendation systems, providing real-worl...
By Shanwen Mao, Mingming Li, Hao Zhang, Zhiheng Li, Yige Wang, Penghua Yu, Junxiong Zhu
RealWorldShop introduces a new benchmark for conversational shopping agents, featuring 3.28 million grounded products, structured shopping episodes, a profile‑grounded user simulator, and role‑play evaluation. Analysis reveals that existing systems generate locally plausible responses but struggle with state tracking, constraint updating, and grounded convergence, especially in ambiguous or multi‑intent scenarios. The authors propose REALSHOP_AGENT, a session‑control framework with explicit state management, shopping‑flow control, catalog‑grounded retrieval, and runtime guards, which consistently outperforms strong baselines on the benchmark.
By Xinwei Yang, Kelong Mao, Yudong Guo, Sulong Xu, Simiu Gu, Chen Huang, Wenqiang Lei