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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.40196

Towards Full-Text Scholarly Argument Mining using Entity-Anchored Claim Extraction

Bhuvanesh Verma, Andy Lüking, Mounika Marreddy, Leon Lukas Hammerla, Alexander Mehler

原文摘要

Argument mining in full-text scholarly articles remains an important yet challenging task. This difficulty stems not only from the need to model long-distance dependencies but also from the substantial effort required to annotate sentence-level argumentative components throughout lengthy documents. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel approach that leverages scientific entity mentions (e.g., tasks, datasets, and models) to identify and structure claims in scholarly literature. We validate our approach through a case study involving 50 full-text research papers on sentiment analysis. We first establish a reliable human gold standard (Krippendorff's $α= 0.80$), identifying 113 claim-bearing sentences and extracting 199 structured claim records from 300 candidate sentences. To address the annotation bottleneck, we employ a majority-voting ensemble of large language models (LLMs) to generate a silver-standard dataset comprising 1,487 claims. Encoders fine-tuned exclusively on the silver-standard dataset outperform those trained on a small human-annotated gold-standard dataset and demonstrate strong zero-shot transfer to NLP papers outside the training corpus.

cs.CL · cs.IR

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版本更新 · v4arXiv:2608.25489

A Storage-Retrieval Gap in Parametric Knowledge Graph Memory

Martino M. L. Pulici, Cuong Xuan Chu, Evgeny Kharlamov, Volker Tresp

原文摘要

Graph retrieval-augmented generation places retrieved subgraphs into the model's context window at query time, paying a recurring token cost and exposing source data on every call. We study an alternative: compiling a knowledge graph offline into a bank of LoRA adapters, one per entity, that serve as a parametric knowledge layer queried by injecting weights rather than text, at zero query-time context cost. On the MetaQA dataset, we find that subgraph-trained adapters encode context-free factual knowledge that generalizes to unseen questions: on single-valued relations the adapter gains +0.243 exact-match score over a base model that is nearly blind closed-book (0.007), and only the correct adapter recovers this knowledge (an oracle gap of +0.283 over the base model). However, the stored knowledge is not recoverable by similarity: given a query with no subgraph, embedding-based and weight-space geometry retrieval both perform at chance, because a semantically neighbouring entity's adapter does not contain the answer - knowledge is stored locally and does not transfer. Weight geometry correlates with subgraph semantics ($ρ$ = +0.329) but not with functional retrievability. We quantify the byte and context-token costs against graph retrieval-augmented generation and discuss deployment implications. Our results establish that parametric knowledge graph memory is feasible for storing knowledge, and identify selecting and composing the right adapters by a mechanism other than semantic similarity as the central open problem - motivating a learned, query-conditioned composition mechanism.

cs.LG · cs.CL · cs.IR

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.40122

xPRT: Cross-Passage Retrieval Pretraining

Danush Khanna, Himanshu Singhal, Pranjal A. Chitale, Bishal Santra

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Dense retrievers are a foundational component underlying modern RAG and search systems. Training these models typically requires a curated collection of annotated query-document pairs, which are prohibitively expensive to obtain outside a handful of well-resourced domains. This has motivated a line of work that leverages large-scale unsupervised retrieval pretraining from unlabelled text alone. Most such methods learn by optimizing a language modelling or contrastive learning objective over short spans within a document. This raises the question: how can we extract richer learning signals from a single document for retrieval pretraining? To address it, we introduce xPRT (Cross-Passage Retrieval Pretraining), an unsupervised framework that learns from the key information distributed across an entire document and the connections between its parts. We evaluate xPRT against five state-of-the-art objectives on MTEB English v2, continuing pretraining from a public unsupervised checkpoint while holding the corpus, schedule, and training procedure fixed. Across diverse tasks spanning all task types, we observe that xPRT consistently outperforms the strongest baseline by 3.2% on an average. Notably, in this continual pretraining setting, many baseline methods incur substantial performance regressions, whereas our method delivers the largest complementary gains over the initial pretrained checkpoint. Controlled ablations confirm that xPRT's performance gains stem from its proposed cross-passage signals. xPRT demonstrates that a single unlabelled document is a much richer source of retrieval signal than prior work assumed and offers complementary gains to what current retrievers already capture.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.40112

Beyond IPS: Reliable Counterfactual Evaluation in Multi-Stage Ad Systems without Logged Propensities

Mohsen Malmir, Mohamed A. Radwan, Houssam Nassif, Murat Ali Bayir

原文摘要

Offline evaluation of ad-ranking policies in multi-stage delivery systems is challenging because action propensities are often unavailable, limiting inverse propensity scoring (IPS). Reward-model-based estimators such as the Direct Method (DM) avoid propensities but can be biased when candidate policies induce impression distributions that differ from the logged data. We formalize DM-based counterfactual replay and propose mixture-weighted reward modeling, which reweights logged data toward a mixture of candidate-policy distributions using density ratios from a multiclass domain classifier. We bound each candidate's value-estimation error by overlap, cold-start, and replay terms, and derive an asymptotic rule that uses the cold-start mass to decide whether to trust offline selection or route candidates to online A/B testing. On an ads-delivery simulator and on production traffic from a large-scale CTR ranking system, the mixture-weighted reward model improves policy selection over its unweighted counterpart in both settings, with the largest gains at low overlap in simulation. Combined with a doubly robust correction, it attains the highest Top-1 accuracy in production and at low and medium overlap in simulation.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39984

R2QRec: Learning Recommendation Queries from Retrieval Feedback

Weixin Chen, Shuchang Liu, Hailan Yang, Yuhan Zhao, Li Kang, Xuefeng Zhang, Chenghao Zhang, Xinyuan Wang 等 16 位作者

原文摘要

Query-based recommendation separates expressing user needs from locating matching items. Its central learning problem is how to turn item interactions into effective retrieval requests when interaction logs do not annotate queries. We present R2QRec, which uses a fixed retrieval system to construct query supervision and evaluate recommendation outcomes. Retrieval verification first selects generated expressions that recover observed items as supervised fine tuning targets, allowing retrieval behavior to determine the target wording. Policy refinement then evaluates generated query sets by the observed item's rank in their fused recommendation list. Log-rank feedback distinguishes outcomes beyond the recommendation cutoff, while a KL penalty constrains policy change relative to the supervised reference. The stages have distinct roles: verification identifies expressions to imitate, and policy refinement improves the combined ranking produced by newly generated queries. Only the query generator is trained; the retriever and item index remain fixed, and no query annotations or learned reward model are required. Across three public datasets, R2QRec achieves state-of-the-art overall recommendation performance among the evaluated methods. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design and its generalization across generators and domains.

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2606.05537

PHKT:Personalized Dynamic Hypergraph-enhanced KAN-Transformer for Multi-behavior Sequential Recommendation

Ruijie Du, Hao Chen, Xin Zhang, Dongjing Wang, Ze Zhang, Xudong Shen, Runze Wu, Dongjin Yu

原文摘要

In multi-behavior recommendation, auxiliary behaviors such as clicks, add-to-cart, and purchases can provide richer supervisory information for predicting target behaviors. Although existing graph and hypergraph methods are capable of modeling high-order relationships among users, items, and behaviors, they still have limitations in heterogeneous semantics, user-specific weighting, and sequence dependency modeling. While standard Transformers excel at sequence modeling, their shared feedforward mapping struggles to accommodate the differentiated requirements of heterogeneous latent patterns in multi-behavior scenarios. To address this, this paper proposes the Personalized Hypergraph-enhanced Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Transformer (PHKT). Specifically, we design a personalized dynamic hypergraph module that performs behavior-aware weighting of item similarities based on users' historical behavior sequences to capture user-specific heterogeneous high-order relationships. Meanwhile, a Transformer is used as the temporal backbone to model the evolution of short- and long-term preferences, and KAN is introduced to replace the traditional MLP in the feedforward network to enhance fine-grained modeling capability for nonlinear responses to different latent patterns. Experiments on three real datasets, Tmall, RetailRocket, and IJCAI, show that PHKT consistently outperforms nine strong baseline models across multiple evaluation metrics, demonstrating its effectiveness in multi-behavior preference modeling and target behavior prediction.

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.02057

Optimizing Effective Training Time for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

Mingming Ding, Ruilin Chen, Yuzhen Huang, Hang Qi, Menglu Yu, San Tan, Damian Reeves, Boris Sarana 等 32 位作者

原文摘要

Lifecycle overhead silently consumes accelerator capacity across large-scale recommendation training fleets. Our largest recommendation workloads process tens of billions train- ing examples per day on thousands of GPUs. Before this work, only 50-60% of their end-to-end wall time advanced training on new data. We present a fleet-scale study of this lifecycle overhead and a set of optimizations spanning the full training stack. We use Effective Training Time (ETT%) as an operational framework to instrument lost time, localize it to independently owned infrastructure components, and expose work repeated across job restarts. This analysis guides optimizations like communication elimination and pipeline overlap during trainer initialization; dynamic-shape handling, autotuning pruning, and reusable Py- Torch 2 compilation caches; asynchronous checkpointing; stan- dalone model publishing; and reductions in recovery cost. We evaluate the optimizations on representative models and measure their impacts in our training fleet. ETT% improves on every benchmark, by 15.5% on average, and reaches 85% on our largest workload. Fleet-wide ETT% rose from about 80% to above 90% after deployment.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39682

Heterogeneous Co-Evolution Learning for Tool-Efficient Search Agents with Zero Labels

Qin-Wen Luo, Sheng Ren, Xiang Chen, Rui Liu, Jun Fang, Naiqiang Tan, Jun Wang, Hua Chai 等 9 位作者

原文摘要

Deep search agents extend language models by interleaving reasoning with external retrieval. However, effective search-agent training requires addressing two challenges beyond final-answer optimization. First, the capability frontier of agents is largely determined by training questions, whereas fixed or labeled task collections cannot adapt as agents improve. Second, outcome-only reinforcement learning treats all successful trajectories equally, even when some correct answers rely on redundant searches, creating an inherent tension between answer accuracy and tool efficiency. To address these issues, we introduce \textsc{ZEST-Search}, a zero-label and tool-efficient framework for search-agent training via heterogeneous co-evolution. Starting from unlabeled reference questions, \textsc{ZEST-Search} constructs validated search tasks online through an answer-first and evidence-path-guided generation process. A heterogeneous proposer adaptively constructs training tasks around the solver's evolving capability boundary, while the solver learns search-augmented reasoning through reinforcement learning. To jointly optimize task difficulty and search efficiency, \textsc{ZEST-Search} employs an intermediate-difficulty reward for the proposer and a task-local tool-aware reward for the solver, encouraging informative tasks and correct answers with fewer redundant searches. Experiments on seven general-domain and multi-hop question answering benchmarks demonstrate that \textsc{ZEST-Search} consistently improves search-agent performance while achieving higher tool efficiency without labeled search-training data or expert search trajectories. Further analyses show that heterogeneous generation, adaptive difficulty control, and tool-aware optimization enable more effective search-agent training.

cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IR

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39667

Efficient LLM-based Subgraph Retrieval for Multi-Hop Knowledge Base Question Answering

Duanyang Yuan, Sihang Zhou, Xiaoshu Chen, Haoyuan Chen, Ke Liang, Jian Huang

原文摘要

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to find answer entities in the knowledge base that are multiple hops away from the entities in the question. Information retrieval-based (IR-based) methods extract a pivotal subgraph from the entire KB to locate candidate answers and then evaluate their plausibility through semantic matching with the question. However, we observed that the extracted subgraphs often include nodes that are weakly related or irrelevant to the question. Without a proper node filtering mechanism, the number of irrelevant nodes grows as the number of hops increases, leading to excessive consumption of computational resources. To address these challenges, this study introduces an efficient LLM-based subgraph retrieval method for multi-hop knowledge base question answering, M-ER. The framework leverages Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to transform subgraph exploration into a tree-structured search process. During the MCTS selection phase, nodes that are highly relevant to the question are prioritized for inclusion in the subgraph, eliminating the need to traverse all nodes in the KB. The framework further incorporates a large language model (LLM) to refine the search direction, ensuring that exploration remains focused on nodes relevant to the question. In addition, selected nodes are quantitatively scored, and these scores are fed back into the node selection process to effectively filter out irrelevant candidates, thereby improving the quality of the subgraph. This mechanism not only narrows the search space but also enhances the overall efficiency of multi-hop KBQA. Experiments on the WebQSP benchmark demonstrate that M-ER achieves 78.88\% on the Hits@1 metric, while also improving computational efficiency. These results not only validate the effectiveness of M-ER, but also offer a viable technical path to balance performance and computational efficiency.

cs.IR

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39610

GistRank: Gist-Compressed Listwise Ranking with Large Language Models

Guo Chen, Wenhan Liu, Reed Li, Qianwen Ma, Yu Lu, Haibo Shi, Bingbing Xu, Junjie Huang

原文摘要

Large language models (LLMs) have become a powerful tool for listwise relevance ranking, which can improve web search by comparing retrieved passages jointly. However, processing every candidate verbatim and generating a permutation autoregressively can make inference costly, every candidate must be serialized verbatim into the prompt and the input therefore grows linearly with both the number and the length of the passages. While sliding-window ranking handles context limits through repeated re-encoding of overlapping blocks, hard compression techniques sacrifice the fine-grained details required for accurate discriminative judgment. To better understand and mitigate this trade-off, we conduct a comprehensive study of soft compression for LLM-based listwise ranking. Our findings reveal that a vanilla gist representation is ill-suited to ranking for two reasons: strictly causal encoding weakens how thoroughly each gist token absorbs its passage, and the representation is never trained to expose the relative-preference structure that separates closely competing candidates. To this end, we propose GistRank, a three-stage training framework that equips a large language model with gist-compressed passage representations by learning faithful gist tokens under a semi-bidirectional attention scheme, instilling discriminative comparison through pairwise training, and adapting the model to the listwise objective. GistRank collapses each passage into only $K{=}4$ gist tokens, this gives 14$\times$ speedups over one-shot full-text ranking while reaching 59.17 average nDCG@10 over TREC DL19/20 and five BEIR subsets within 0.89 of the strongest full-context baseline. Overall, GistRank provides an effective means to enhance efficiency for searches in real-world environments.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39608

From Intent to Improvement: Agentic Dataset Search for Better Model Training

Qiaosheng Chen, Kaijia Huang, Fanqi Zhou, Gong Cheng

原文摘要

Finding training data in million-scale machine learning repositories is a Web search problem where text relevance is not enough. A query couples a semantic training goal with constraints such as task, license, and training stage, and the metadata that would verify them are often missing. Text retrieval ranks dataset cards by similarity but cannot enforce hard constraints or follow the relations that reach a sparsely described dataset. Free-form tool-calling agents are more flexible, but the same model that picks a dataset also declares it a match, and nothing checks that the query's constraints are actually met. Neither approach establishes that the data it returns will improve model training. To address it, we propose AgenticDS, a contract-governed agentic framework in which every language model decision instantiates a typed object before deterministic code consumes it. The framework compiles a query into a typed search plan, executes it through admissible deterministic operators over hybrid retrieval and bounded graph expansion, and verifies the provenance-grounded evidence before accepting a ranking or emitting a typed diagnosis that permits only local repairs. On HuDS-Bench, a new benchmark of 200 queries with 24,908 graded judgments pooled over 15 systems, AgenticDS improves NDCG@10 by 25.7\% over the strongest dense--sparse hybrid and by 18.9\% over a commercial LLM agent. A controlled search-to-train study further shows that the datasets it retrieves give the best downstream accuracy in mathematics, code, and medicine. Code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/nju-websoft/AgenticDS.

cs.AI · cs.IR

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版本更新 · v3arXiv:2507.00535

Rethinking Group Recommender Systems in the Era of Generative AI: From One-Shot Recommendations to Conversational Group Decision Support

Dietmar Jannach, Amra Delić, Francesco Ricci, Markus Zanker

原文摘要

More than twenty-five years ago, early ideas emerged on how to design systems that provide recommendations to groups of users rather than individuals. Since then, a wide range of algorithmic approaches has been proposed to elicit individual preferences, aggregate them, and generate group recommendations. However, despite this substantial body of work, relatively few examples of real-world group recommender systems are in use. This observation invites reflection on the assumptions of the academic research, particularly regarding how inter-group communication unfolds and how recommendation-supported decisions should be made. In this essay, we suggest that some of these assumptions and corresponding system designs may not fully align with users' needs or expectations. We therefore outline a forward-looking perspective that explores how insights from group-decision making research and recent advances in Generative AI, including systems such as ChatGPT, could better inform the design of group recommender systems. As one possible direction, we consider settings in which human group members interact and exchange information through a chat based interface, while an AI-based agent supports the decision-making process. Such an approach may contribute to design more natural group and system interactions, and could help facilitate a broader adoption of group recommender systems in practice.

cs.IR · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39519

Lost in the Latent Space: How Code Embeddings Represent Functional Intent and Implementation Fidelity

Lu Sun, Yuheng Huang, Lei Ma, Zhijie Wang

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Code embedding models have become a key building block for many software engineering applications, yet their internal representations remain poorly understood. Existing evaluations tend to focus on downstream task performance, offering limited insight into whether a single embedding can support both functional abstraction and implementation-sensitive analysis. To address this gap, we present a large-scale empirical study of 14 state-of-the-art code embedding models. We evaluate their representational behavior through three complementary analyses: supervised probing for functional abstraction and implementation fidelity, zero-shot retrieval experiments to assess geometric similarity, and controlled perturbation experiments that measure embedding responses to semantics-preserving code transformations. The results reveal a consistent abstraction-fidelity tension: models that better preserve stylistic and structural signals tend to do so at the expense of semantic generalization, while models with similar retrieval performance can nevertheless respond very differently to the same implementation changes. Overall, our findings suggest that a single universal code representation remains out of reach, motivating more representation-aware evaluation, selection, and deployment of code embedding models in software engineering.

cs.SE · cs.CL · cs.IR

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2607.28070

CCFormer: Efficient Cross-Field Interaction and Hierarchical Sequence Compression for Industrial Recommendation at Tencent

Yunlong Wang, Huizhe Zhang, Haonan Hu, Yudong Li, Bing Wen, Jianchao Tu, Chengxiang Zhuo, Zang Li

原文摘要

Industrial candidate-ranking systems must combine long user behavior histories with heterogeneous user and item features under strict computational budgets. We propose CCFormer, a structured interaction architecture that separates cross-field retrieval from intra-history modeling. Feature-field-separated cross-attention allows user and target queries to read an evolving history hierarchy, while local subspace token mixing contextualizes history tokens independently of candidate targets. Hierarchical sequence compression reduces the number of history tokens and provides multi-scale historical context for subsequent interactions. Experiments on two public benchmarks show higher mean AUC than the evaluated baselines, while experiments on a large-scale industrial dataset show a favorable accuracy-compute trade-off and higher training throughput than HSTU. Online A/B tests across four recommendation and advertising scenarios report system-level improvements of up to 3.57% in click-through rate, 3.86% in page views, and 1.71% in advertising revenue relative to the corresponding production baselines. CCFormer has been fully deployed in all four scenarios, demonstrating its practical scalability and effectiveness in large-scale recommendation systems.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39470

RoFiGR: Coarse Routing, Fine Refinement via Level-Adaptive Distillation in Multimodal Generative Recommendation

Ji Dai, Zhipeng Wei, Zhuang Zhuang, Rongfeng Guo, Jie Chen, Quan Fang, Fei Pan

原文摘要

Generative recommenders predict an item's semantic identifier (SID) one code at a time. Early codes select broad branches, so a routing error can exclude relevant items before fine-grained prediction begins. In multimodal recommendation, these coarse decisions must reflect collaborative preferences as well as item semantics. We introduce RoFiGR, a two-tree recommender that uses collaborative information in both SID construction and generation. It aligns cumulative L1-L2 code vectors with frozen collaborative item embeddings and explicitly encodes item distance and source level in the serialized history. During generation, a sequential teacher supervises legal branches. Fixed coarse-level weights maintain routing supervision, while a bounded adaptive residual allocates additional weight according to teacher-student demand. On Instruments, Arts, and Games, RoFiGR improves all five ranking metrics over the evaluated external baselines. Five-seed paired tests with Holm correction support the main NDCG@10 improvements. Comparisons with alternative collaborative supervision objectives and tokenizers support the proposed design. Matched task and decoding analyses distinguish the effects of training exposure, stream fusion, and candidate budgets.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39426

UGR: Unified Generative Ranking for Heterogeneous E-commerce Recommendation

Zonghe Shao, Huabin Chen, Sitong Lu, Fangmei Zhu, Yingcai Ma, Ge Fan, Jinguo Gao, Wei Shi 等 10 位作者

原文摘要

List-wise ranking in e-commerce recommendation must balance user utility and commercial value across organic content, ads, and candidates from other businesses, while modeling candidate interactions and sequential dependencies. Existing generative ranking methods typically learn from logged exposure sequences and operate on truncated candidate sets from a single business. Exposure-sequence learning may not fully exploit post-exposure feedback signals. Meanwhile, generative ranking over heterogeneous, multi-business candidates remains less explored, particularly when recommendation scores and advertising value must be jointly modeled under generalized second-price (GSP) auctions. We propose Unified Generative Ranking (UGR), which performs generative ranking over the full request-level multi-business heterogeneous candidate set, typically comprising around a thousand candidates in production, and directly generates multi-business ranking lists through candidate-aware autoregressive decoding. To go beyond exposure-sequence imitation, UGR introduces complementary feedback supervision through weighted supervised fine-tuning and permutation preference optimization, which respectively leverage observed post-exposure feedback and feedback-derived preferences among permutations. UGR uses a training-time advertising debiasing tower to model historical ad exposure effects and incorporates current ad value during serving while preserving the existing allocation and GSP pricing rules. Multi-value sequence retrieval produces candidate ranking lists, and the existing downstream evaluator selects the final list for exposure. Offline experiments demonstrate consistent gains in ranking quality, while online A/B tests on Taobao's Guess You Like recommendation service yield improvements of 1.76% in Core IPV, 3.29% in Transaction Volume, and 2.10% in GMV over the production baseline.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39352

Try Before You Evolve: Ranking-Scored Trials for Recursive Self-Improvement of Recommender Systems

Xu Huang, Jiawei Feng, Jiancan Wu

原文摘要

Recommenders on Web platforms such as e-commerce and music streaming need their training recipes re-tuned for each dataset. Large language model (LLM) agents can now rewrite these recipes, enabling recursive self-improvement (RSI) of recommender systems. Existing agents propose one edit per round, fully retrain the recommender, and keep the edit only if its ranking quality improves. Unlike programs or patches that can be scored by execution, a recommender edit changes how the model is trained, which raises two challenges. First, ranking feedback is delayed: an edit's ranking quality is known only after full retraining, so much of the retraining budget goes to edits that are later discarded. Second, the signals available before retraining are unreliable: sampled training losses can look solved while full-ranking performance remains poor, and they are not comparable across edits that change the loss or sampler. We propose RecRSI, which generates diverse candidate edits from a diagnosis of the current model and selects one for full retraining using early ranking feedback: each candidate receives a short trial, the first steps of its full training run, scored by full-ranking NDCG@10 on held-out probe users. With two sequential recommenders on three datasets and the same number of full retrainings, RecRSI significantly outperforms existing self-evolving agents in every setting, and on both Amazon datasets reaches in its first round a ranking quality that none of them reaches in five.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39339

Does the Citation Matter? Quality, Grounding, and Physician-Rubric Accuracy of Google's AI Overviews for Medical Information

Sam Agnoli, Brigid Reilly, Lily Barna, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát

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Google's AI Overviews (AIOs) are the first result users encounter when searching the web, shifting the work of selecting and evaluating sources from the user to Gemini. This may be especially consequential for health information, given that Google's traditional algorithm was designed to prioritize quality sources, and inaccurate information carries health risks. We evaluated 3,611 benchmark health questions, comparing each AIO against that question's top five traditional results on source selection and quality. We also evaluated the AIOs' statement grounding in their cited sources and how accurate AIOs were against physician-written rubrics. Overviews appeared for 96.4% of questions but drew on substantially different evidence than traditional search: only 44.4% of the top five results were cited by the corresponding AIO, which instead overrepresented commercial health publishers (e.g., WebMD, Healthline) at the expense of academic and government sources (e.g., Cleveland Clinic, National Health Service). AIO-cited pages scored lower than traditional results on four of six well-established credibility criteria. The grounding of AIO statements to their sources was poor: after correcting for classifier error, an estimated 56.7% of cited statements were supported by their cited page, and a further 20.8% of all statements were factual claims with no citation at all. When AIOs were graded against physicians' rubrics, they earned 38.2% of all available points (e.g., accuracy 54.2%, completeness 21.6%), and among the subset of AIOs whose physician rubric anticipated a specific inaccurate or potentially harmful claim, 22.2% of AIOs contained the harmful content. Notably, the accuracy of AIOs was unrelated to the grounding of their statements. We recommend AIO literacy interventions for users and holding AIOs at least to Google's own health-ranking standards.

cs.IR · cs.CL · cs.CY · cs.HC

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39289

Federated Recommender Agents

Jaehyung Lim, Woojoo Kim, Junyoung Kim, Dongha Kim, Wonbin Kweon, Hwanjo Yu

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LLM-powered recommender agents use reasoning and memory for personalization, but centralized access to user information raises privacy concerns, while isolated agents cannot learn from others' experiences. We formulate Federated Recommender Agents, a setting where local agents collaborate through natural-language knowledge while keeping interaction histories and personal memories local. We propose FedRecAgent, which enables this collaboration without updating LLM parameters. Its central challenge is determining which reasoning to integrate, since similar behavioral contexts can lead to different choices. FedRecAgent represents local experiences as Condition-Transition-Reasoning (C-T-R) units and hierarchically integrates reasoning by condition and transition. Within this structure, it consolidates related explanations and discriminates reasoning across alternative transitions. Each client maintains semantic and decision memories to capture preferences and conditional choice tendencies, guiding the retrieval and selection of shared reasoning for recommendation. Experiments across three domains under dense and sparse settings demonstrate improved recommendation performance over federated and LLM-based baselines, while ablations support the contributions of personalized memories and structured reasoning integration.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39273

PFA: Attention Can Be Progressively Focused in Long-Sequence Generative Recommendation

Pengjie Zhou, Weiqin Yang, Haibo Xing, Hao Deng, Jinxin Hu

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Long user behavioral sequences improve the performance of generative recommendation (GR), but computing full attention over long histories during autoregressive beam search decoding incurs substantial online inference latency. To accelerate long-sequence decoding, existing approaches typically rely on static history compression or dynamic top-k sparse attention; however, the former risks losing critical semantics, whereas the latter incurs significant overhead from repeated token selection and non-contiguous memory access. In this work, we thoroughly analyze attention patterns during GR decoding and reveal two key properties: (i) progressive attention focusing, where attention progressively focuses on a small subset of critical historical tokens; and (ii) cross-step ranking consistency, where their importance rankings remain relatively stable across subsequent decoding steps. Motivated by these observations, we propose Progressively Focused Attention (PFA), an efficient sparse decoding framework for long-sequence GR. PFA retains full attention at the initial decoding step to explore global historical preferences. It then establishes a shared importance ranking through cross-beam weighted aggregation and reorders the key-value cache of the selected tokens into a contiguous memory layout. Subsequent decoding steps reuse this ranking and geometrically reduce the token budget, preserving critical semantics while lowering computational and memory access overhead. Extensive experiments on two public benchmarks and a large-scale industrial dataset demonstrate that PFA outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. A 7-day online A/B test on a large-scale e-commerce advertising platform further confirms that PFA delivers substantial business gains while maintaining low inference latency. Our code is publicly available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PFA-review-088D.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39244

CASH: A Capability-Aware Subsidy Harness for Advertiser Subsidy Allocation

Minmao Wang, Huihuang Lin, Likang Wu, Hongke Zhao, Shijie Yi, Fei Pan

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Advertising platforms subsidize advertisers through billing discounts, and Advertiser Subsidy Allocation (ASA) chooses a subsidy level for every account to maximize total discounted revenue under a platform-wide subsidy-rate constraint. In practice, operators configure these subsidies from business rules, advertiser tiers and operating goals. Such configuration draws on rich business experience, yet as the advertiser base grows, tier-level policies can neither resolve how individual accounts respond across subsidy levels nor allocate a shared budget at the granularity of single accounts. We propose CASH, a Capability-Aware Subsidy Harness for ASA. CASH pairs a knowledge-guided large language model (LLM) with a data-driven numerical response model, learns from realized outcomes where each is locally reliable across accounts and subsidy levels, and turns this reliability into explicit capability licenses that govern source selection, agent review and budget allocation. Its Expected Policy Coverage Gain (EPCG) directs a limited feedback budget toward evidence expected to expand high-value reliable coverage, and the resulting feedback further improves the numerical model and updates capability estimates. In a one-month online experiment with CASH serving 60% of a large-scale advertising platform's traffic, CASH raises revenue per account by 15.35% and ADVV by 19.86% over Control at an essentially unchanged subsidy rate, with further gains in revenue quality, LTV and retention.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39231

A Sequential Decision Framework for Evaluating LLM-Guided Search

Siqing Huo, Andrew Parry, Debasis Ganguly, Mark Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke

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Recent systems applying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and "deep research" iteratively generate queries, retrieve documents, and examine their contents, using the resulting information to guide subsequent search steps. When this process is carried out autonomously rather than by a human searcher, the system must make explicit decisions about which search trajectories to explore and what objective the search is intended to optimize. We introduce a simple framework for reasoning about such search policies, providing a principled approach to evaluation. The framework models the search environment as a set of ranked lists and represents behavior using two primitive actions: select, which advances judgment through an existing ranking, and spawn, which generates a new ranking through query generation or reformulation. Each action produces a document to inspect, yields information that updates the search state, and contributes a reward for a task-specific objective. Within this abstraction, a variety of existing retrieval strategies can be expressed as policies operating over a common environment, while common retrieval objectives can be represented through reward and weighting functions over the resulting search trajectory, and the resulting formulation admits a natural reinforcement learning interpretation. We illustrate the approach using high-recall information retrieval (HRIR), where the goal is to identify as many relevant documents as possible with limited judging effort, showing how the framework provides a unified way to describe and reason about strategies for both classical retrieval tasks and emerging LLM-guided search systems. Through experiments, we demonstrate that both the underlying retrieval method and the "deep research" policy employed can materially affect performance.

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版本更新 · v5arXiv:2509.11080

Membership Inference Attacks on Recommender System: A Survey

Jiajie He, Xintong Chen, Xinyang Fang, Min-Chun Chen, Yuechun Gu, Wenjin Liu, Keke Chen

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Recommender systems (RecSys) have been widely applied to various applications, including E-commerce, finance, healthcare, social media and have become increasingly influential in shaping user behavior and decision-making, highlighting their growing impact in various domains. However, recent studies have shown that RecSys are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), which aim to infer whether user interaction record was used to train a target model or not. MIAs on RecSys models can directly lead to a privacy breach. For example, via identifying the fact that a purchase record that has been used to train a RecSys associated with a specific user, an attacker can infer that user's special quirks. In recent years, MIAs have been shown to be effective on other ML tasks, e.g., classification models and natural language processing. However, traditional MIAs are ill-suited for RecSys due to the unseen posterior probability. Although MIAs on RecSys form a newly emerging and rapidly growing research area, there has been no systematic survey on this topic yet. In this article, we conduct the first comprehensive survey on RecSys MIAs. This survey offers a comprehensive review of the latest advancements in RecSys MIAs, exploring the design principles, challenges, attack and defense associated with this emerging field. We provide a unified taxonomy that categorizes different RecSys MIAs based on their characterizations and discuss their pros and cons. Based on the limitations and gaps identified in this survey, we point out several promising future research directions to inspire the researchers who wish to follow this area. This survey not only serves as a reference for the research community but also provides a clear description for researchers outside this research domain.

cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CR

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39188

Read More, Reason Deeper: Latent Workspaces for Long-Sequence Recommendation

Renzhi Wu, Li Sheng, Zikun Cui, Junjie Yang, Tai Guo, Keke Zhai, Yan Li, Jerry Fu 等 11 位作者

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Long-sequence recommendation can improve along two axes: \emph{evidence scaling} exposes longer histories, while \emph{reasoning scaling} adds layers that interpret that evidence for a candidate. Existing models couple them: sequence encoders propagate every added event through depth, whereas one-shot selection prevents later layers from revisiting omitted evidence. We introduce the Latent Workspace Ranker (LWR), which keeps typed evidence in persistent banks and propagates a fixed-size candidate-local workspace. Each layer rereads the banks from its evolving workspace and archives compact post-interaction state, allowing history length and reasoning depth to grow independently. We compare four architectures across various history--depth configurations using evidence scaling at fixed depth, reasoning scaling at fixed 10K history, and their joint compute-efficient frontier. LWR leads all families at long histories, continues improving with reasoning compute, and converts additional training compute into quality gains at the fastest fitted rate on the joint frontier. At 10K history, it improves NE by 0.19% over HSTU while using 69.6% fewer forward GFLOP/request. It also outperforms existing baselines on two billion-scale ranking surfaces. These results show that separating addressable evidence from propagated state makes reading more and reasoning deeper independently controllable and jointly useful.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39175

PRISM: Personalized Item Representations in User History

Renzhi Wu, Zikun Cui, Junjie Yang, Li Sheng, Yongjun Xie, Jerry Fu, Nipun Mathur, Sri Reddy 等 9 位作者

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Sequential recommenders typically construct history inputs from item identifiers or content features using an embedding map shared across users. The same item therefore yields the same initial embedding representation, even when users have different relationships to the item. We propose personalized item representations in user history, where each item's embedding expresses its relationship to the user. Personalization becomes a property of the history inputs themselves, supplying richer evidence for later sequence modeling. We instantiate this idea with PRISM, which reuses upstream ranking computation to generate personalized item embeddings. An autoencoder jointly compresses all layer states from a user tower, a user--item tower, and same-request candidate mixing into one embedding per scored pair for downstream replay. Offline evaluation on Surface 1, a major recommendation surface at billion scale, reports an average downstream normalized entropy (NE) change of $-0.15\%$, compared with $-0.07\%$ for VISTA at similar history lengths. We further identify an empirical sequence-length scaling law: over history lengths of 26--240 events, NE gain follows a fitted power law with exponent 0.468, increasing from 0.06\% to 0.17\%. Therefore, personalized item representations in user history provide a new scaling dimension for improving recommendation quality.

cs.IR · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2605.05771

Beyond Long-Tail POIs: Transition-Centered Modeling for Human Mobility Prediction

Dingyang Lyu, Zhengjia Xu, Jey Han Lau, Jianzhong Qi

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Human mobility prediction, a core task of location-based web services, forecasts a user's next Point of Interest (POI) visit from historical trajectories, supporting applications from recommendation to urban planning. A general perception in the literature has been that visits to popular POIs are relatively easy to predict. Our analysis challenges this perception and shows that, even for visits to popular POIs, many predictions fail. The underlying cause is often transition-level sparsity, where a transition is a move from a source POI to a destination POI. While a POI may be popular, its transitions from other POIs may still be very sparse, since there are many POIs in a dataset. As a result, predicting a popular next POI can still be challenging if the transition from the source POI to it never appears in the training data. We therefore argue that a core bottleneck in human mobility prediction lies in the transition-level long tail, and propose REtrieval Combined with pArametric memory for next-POI prediction (RECAP). RECAP learns frequent transitions in the parameters of a small Transformer trained from scratch. Long-tail transitions give the parameters little or no training signal. RECAP retrieves evidence for them from two sources: (i) multi-hop transitivity learned from a global transition graph of all users, and (ii) revisit evidence from a target user's historical trajectory. RECAP further uses two-stage training to let the revisit component also learn from frequently seen transitions. Experiments on three real-world check-in datasets show that RECAP improves prediction accuracy, with clear gains on tail transitions. Our code is available at https://github.com/NiallLDY/RECAP.

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版本更新 · v3arXiv:2510.02219

Contrastive Retrieval Heads for Improved Attention-Based Reranking

Linh Tran, Yulong Li, Radu Florian, Stacy Patterson, Ana Milanova, Wei Sun

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The strong zero-shot and long-context capabilities of recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have paved the way for highly effective re-ranking systems. Attention-based re-rankers leverage attention weights from transformer heads to produce relevance scores, but not all heads are created equally: many contribute noise and redundancy, thus limiting performance. To address this, we introduce CoRe heads, a small set of retrieval heads identified via a contrastive scoring metric that explicitly rewards high attention heads that correlate with relevant documents, while downplaying nodes with higher attention that correlate with irrelevant documents. This relative ranking criterion isolates the most discriminative heads for re-ranking and yields a state-of-the-art list-wise re-ranker. Extensive experiments with three LLMs show that aggregated signals from CoRe heads, constituting less than 1% of all heads, substantially improve re-ranking accuracy over strong baselines. We further find that CoRe heads are concentrated in middle layers, and pruning the computation of final 50% of model layers preserves accuracy while significantly reducing inference time and memory usage.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39090

PALATE: Pretrained Autoregressive LATent Embeddings

Sizhang Zhao, Praveen Gondhi, Bin Li, Utsaw Kumar

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Local-commerce and food-delivery marketplaces run large ads businesses: across hundreds of thousands of stores, merchants pay to be surfaced on browse and search surfaces, and a ranker decides which ads each consumer sees. Ranking well demands strong per-consumer personalization, yet a consumer's raw interaction history is sparse and high-cardinality. Our production ranker had personalized only through hand-engineered signals: aggregate engagement counts, categorical embeddings, and order-agnostic pooled history, with no learned per-consumer sequence representation. We learn one by training a GPT-style generative model of the consumer's engagement sequence to predict their next few engagements, and read its last-token hidden state as the consumer embedding. That single frozen vector becomes one shared personalization input for every ad surface: a daily job refreshes it, and each ranker consumes it as an ordinary dense feature. Offline it is the largest single-feature gain in our ranking-AUC ladder, a relative Eval-AUC gain of +0.59% on a browse-driven feed and +0.57% on a query-driven search surface. Online, it shipped as one component of bundled ranker retrains on both surfaces: Discovery (revenue +0.79%, conversion rate +1.17%) and Search (revenue +0.94%, conversion rate +1.50%). Three design choices adapt the generative objective to a repurchase-heavy marketplace, and are the core of our contribution: an exploration-weighted loss that up-weights businesses new to the consumer over ones already engaged; a two-stage curriculum: a click pretrain that keeps the representation broad and exploratory, then a conversion fine-tune that sharpens purchase intent; and a designed negative set that pairs a fixed popular-business pool and businesses shown but not ordered with random and in-batch negatives.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.38854

Contextual Embeddings Beyond the Gold Chunk

Sedigheh Eslami, Markus Krimmel, William Barber, Antoine Chaffin, Maximilian Schall, Jonas Golde, Louis Milliken, Ekaterina Glazkova 等 10 位作者

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Contextual embeddings represent chunks of a document with respect to the document's global context. These models are typically trained and evaluated under the assumption that a relevant document contains only a single relevant chunk. In this work, we argue that in real-world use cases a retriever should not only find answers spread over several chunks but also surface the evidence needed to verify them. To address this, we introduce pplx-embed-v2-context, a family of contextual embedding models trained by distilling graded chunk-level relevance from a query-aware context compression model. This removes the need for gold-chunk labels and makes the training targets independent of the chunking. We utilize a vision-language backbone for training and release pplx-embed-v2-context in 9B and 0.6B sizes with compatible embedding spaces. On the evaluation side, we introduce two benchmarks that label both the chunks that answer a query and the evidence needed to verify the answer. Context-bench is a controlled diagnostic, and Q2D-Chunk is built from real-world search queries. To encourage further research, we also publish Q2D-Chunk as a public leaderboard. Our 9B model sets a new state of the art on both benchmarks and ConTEB. We find that the visual retrieval capabilities of our 9B model transfer from its vision-language base model and propose to extend chunking to image inputs. We demonstrate that our models achieve state-of-the-art performance among dense retrievers on visual ViDoRe-V3 and that performance improves with granular image chunking.

cs.LG · cs.CL · cs.IR

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.38755

Leaving, Staying, or Living There? Duration Commonsense Reasoning with Human-LLM Co-annotations

Chenyang Yu, Zhaomin Xiao, Yan Huang, Eduardo Blanco

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Gardening in the backyard implies living there, while checking into an Airbnb more likely means staying for a few days. Such duration judgments are important for understanding human mobility, travel behavior, and social context. However, duration is rarely stated explicitly in social media posts and must instead be inferred from noisy textual, visual, and contextual cues. In this paper, we investigate whether vision-language models possess such duration commonsense. We create a new corpus of geotagged tweets co-annotated by humans and LLMs to serve as a testbed for this task. We find that state-of-the-art models struggle with duration inference, even when guided by multi-turn Chain-of-Thought prompting. Error analyses further reveal that models often fail to integrate critical contextual information, or they overly rely on prominent visual details while overlooking subtle hashtags and semantic nuances. These findings underscore the significant challenges remaining in context-aware multimodal understanding.

cs.AI · cs.IR

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