arXiv:2606. 01948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing popularity of group activities has increased the need for methods that provide recommendations to groups of users given their individual preferences.
By Mubaraka Sani Ibrahim, Lehel Csat\'o, Isah Charles Saidu
arXiv:2104. 08928v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unstructured text provides decision-makers with a rich data source in many domains, ranging from product reviews in retail to nursing notes in healthcare.
By Kan Xu, Xuanyi Zhao, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani
arXiv:2608.20801v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced reranking in recommendation, effectively leveraging item-side information remains chal...
By Dojun Hwang, Seunghan Lee, Cheonyoung Park, Sara Yu, SeongKu Kang
arXiv:2607. 24025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains; however, directly applying their standard self-attention mechanism to recommendation often yields suboptimal performance, sometimes even trailing behind well-designed simple recommendation models.
By Yu Cui, Yi Xu, Jiahao Wang, Hao Zhang, Yu Zhang, Xiaoyi Zeng, Can Wang, Jinxin Hu, Jiawei Chen
The study reproduces a prior work on recommender systems that use generated natural‑language user profiles to enhance transparency and user control. It confirms that the User Profile Recommendation (UPR) model performs competitively and that altering these profiles uniformly shifts predicted ratings without changing ranking order. Additional experiments include context ablation, multi‑seed stability, and mechanistic interpretability analysis with the nnsight framework.
arXiv:2608. 07816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative recommendation (GR) leverage large language models (LLMs) as recommender backbones, enabling LLMs to directly generate recommendations conditioned on item-interaction histories.
By Donald Loveland, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Danai Koutra, Neil Shah