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.
By Dongding Lin, Jian Wang, Xiaoyan Zhao, Wenjie Li
arXiv:2608. 15949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled their use as conversational recommender systems (CRS), demonstrating strong recommendation accuracy and natural dialogue.
By Cedar Site Bai, Duanshun Li, Zhenyu Liao, Sheikh Sarwar, Huiyuan Chen, Yuan Chen, Changhe Yuan, Haiyang Zhang, Qilin Qi
FacetCRS is a conversational recommender system that tackles the filter‑bubble problem by learning multi‑faceted user preferences—entity, word, context, and review facets—through natural language interactions. The framework adaptively models these preference facets and incorporates external knowledge to provide diverse recommendations. Experiments on two benchmark datasets show that FacetCRS outperforms existing methods in reducing filter bubbles and improving recommendation quality.
By Yongsen Zheng, Ziliang Chen, Jinghui Qin, Liang Lin
arXiv:2607. 00010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are a core component of next-generation intelligent recommender systems because they enable users to actively elicit preferences, clarify intentions, and adapt recommendations in real time.
By Nipun B Nair, Tongtong Wu, Weiqing Wang
arXiv:2607. 10541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommender systems typically infer user preferences through single-pass encoding of interaction histories without iterative refinement, relying on increasingly deep architectures to capture complex patterns.
By Pervez Shaik, Prosenjit Biswas, Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar
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...
By Qianyun Guo, Yibo Li, Yue Liu, Bryan Hooi
arXiv:2607. 18609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Matthew effect is a big challenge in Recommender Systems (RSs), where popular items tend to receive increasing attention, while less popular ones are often overlooked, perpetuating existing disparities.
By Yongsen Zheng, Ruilin Xu, Guohua Wang, Liang Lin, Kwok-Yan Lam
arXiv:2608. 12062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing dialogue systems capable of engaging in multi-turn, goal-oriented conversations remains a significant challenge, especially in specialized domains with limited data.
By Lior Baruch, Moshe Butman, Kfir Bar, Doron Friedman
PRAGMA is a benchmark designed to evaluate personalized guidance in long‑term conversations. It includes curated longitudinal conversation histories, evidence annotations, and guidance scenarios that reflect evolving user contexts and incorrect assumptions. Experiments show that current retrieval, memory, and long‑context models struggle to recover relevant conversational evidence and to use it effectively for personalized guidance.
By Hyojeong Yu, Hyukhun Koh, Minsung Kim, Yunah Jang, Kyomin Jung
arXiv:2607. 17461v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Matthew effect is a notorious issue in Recommender Systems (RSs), \emph{i.
By Yongsen Zheng, Ruilin Xu, Ziliang Chen, Guohua Wang, Mingjie Qian, Jinghui Qin, Liang Lin
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
ReMem is a new recommendation agent framework that rethinks perception and memory for long-context recommendation tasks. It replaces raw HTML parsing with OCR-based multimodal perception from screenshots, extracting structured information in a platform-agnostic way. The framework also introduces a chunk-wise sequential memory update strategy and a multi-memory GRPO variant to efficiently model evolving user preferences over arbitrarily long interaction histories, achieving a 5.16% average improvement over state-of-the-art baselines on three recommendation agent tasks.
By Haohao Qu, Yongcheng Jing, Chun Hin Chan, Shanru Lin, Wenqi Fan, Dacheng Tao