arXiv:2608. 11493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional offline recommendation evaluation relies heavily on complex, manually maintained feature pipelines that are difficult to scale.
arXiv:2609.00014v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persona-driven techniques increasingly adapt large language models (LLMs) to diverse contexts. However, existing methods predominantly rely on rigid,...
arXiv:2603.04191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactio...
The paper introduces SARA, an industrial framework that scales articulated user rationales (AURs) for recommendation systems. It curates a high‑quality AUR dataset from 240 M users, trains a 7B‑parameter MLLM (SARA‑7B) to generate rationales for millions of authors, and integrates these generated rationales into a production ranking model (SARA‑Ranker). Offline and online experiments demonstrate that the system produces more specific, polarity‑consistent rationales and improves user engagement while reducing negative feedback.
PADM'E is a method for synthesizing preference‑aligned data to meta‑evaluate language‑model (LM) evaluators of agentic behaviors. It reframes meta‑evaluation as a preference judgment problem, generating criterion‑based data with small LMs and no human involvement. In a prototype, PADM'E produced 1,000 samples across four domains and three criteria, and human validation showed agreement with human judgment rising from 73% to 85% compared to a naive baseline.
arXiv:2606. 06614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite growing interest, most evaluations of large language models' (LLMs') personalization abilities have relied on synthetic data.
Re2A is a new framework for situated conversational recommendation that models user interactions within shared physical environments. It introduces rubric-based preference reasoning to explicitly capture user preferences from dialogue history and scene context, and a preference-conditioned optimization to align generated responses with both user satisfaction and situational consistency. Experiments on two SCR datasets show that Re2A outperforms existing methods, providing more precise and context-aware recommendations.
arXiv:2601. 02813v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aligning language models to qualitative behavioral traits, such as human-likeness, remains difficult because they are hard to define, measure, and optimize.
Large Language Models (LLMs) as judges across various scenarios such as assessing model responses is becoming an increasingly accepted paradigm. However, existing judgment approaches often rely on trained judgers using fixed preference data, which tend to overlook diverse user preferences and struggle to adapt to real-world human-AI dialogue scenarios.
arXiv:2510. 11194v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized alignment is crucial for enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric interactions.
Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior. However, the limited quality of item representations remains a critical bottleneck.
arXiv:2609.01246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily optimized for written text, often producing outputs that are grammatically correct and helpful yet p...
arXiv:2606. 11023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior.