arXiv:2511. 07280v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personalized recommendation systems shape much of user choice online, yet their targeted nature makes separating out the value of recommendation and the underlying goods challenging.
By Kevin Zielnicki, Guy Aridor, Aur\'elien Bibaut, Allen Tran, Winston Chou, Nathan Kallus
arXiv:2210. 10619v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliability measures associated with the prediction of the machine learning models are critical to strengthening user confidence in artificial intelligence.
By \'Angel Gonz\'alez-Prieto, Abraham Guti\'errez, Fernando Ortega, Ra\'ul Lara-Cabrera
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.
This reproducibility study confirms that incorporating generated natural‑language user profiles into recommender systems enhances transparency and allows users to directly intervene by correcting preferences or addressing cold‑start issues. The authors replicated the original findings and extended the evaluation with context ablation, multi‑seed stability tests, and mechanistic interpretability analysis using nnsight. Their results show that while perturbing profiles shifts predicted ratings uniformly across genres, the overall rankings remain unchanged, attributing this to the rating‑regression objective rather than the profile interface.
By Noah Mami\'e, Laurin van den Bergh
arXiv:2605.09509v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The problem of predicting unobserved entries in a binary matrix, known as 1-bit matrix completion, has found diverse applications in fields s...
By Takeru Matsuda
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