On generative agents in recommendation

A Zhang, Y Chen, L Sheng, X Wang… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are the cornerstone of today's information dissemination, yet a
disconnect between offline metrics and online performance greatly hinders their …

Large language model can interpret latent space of sequential recommender

Z Yang, J Wu, Y Luo, J Zhang, Y Yuan, A Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Sequential recommendation is to predict the next item of interest for a user, based on her/his
interaction history with previous items. In conventional sequential recommenders, a common …

Llara: Aligning large language models with sequential recommenders

J Liao, S Li, Z Yang, J Wu, Y Yuan, X Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Sequential recommendation aims to predict the subsequent items matching user preference
based on her/his historical interactions. With the development of Large Language Models …

Gradient-based bi-level optimization for deep learning: A survey

C Chen, X Chen, C Ma, Z Liu, X Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.11719, 2022 - arxiv.org
Bi-level optimization, especially the gradient-based category, has been widely used in the
deep learning community including hyperparameter optimization and meta-knowledge …

Spatio-Temporal Graphical Counterfactuals: An Overview

M Kang, D Chen, Z Pu, J Gao, W Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01875, 2024 - arxiv.org
Counterfactual thinking is a critical yet challenging topic for artificial intelligence to learn
knowledge from data and ultimately improve their performances for new scenarios. Many …

Data Optimization in Deep Learning: A Survey

O Wu, R Yao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16499, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large-scale, high-quality data are considered an essential factor for the successful
application of many deep learning techniques. Meanwhile, numerous real-world deep …

PORCA: Root Cause Analysis with Partially Observed Data

C Gong, D Yao, J Wang, W Li, L Fang, Y Xie… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) aims at identifying the underlying causes of system faults by
uncovering and analyzing the causal structure from complex systems. It has been widely …

Causal structure learning for high-dimensional non-stationary time series

S Chen, HT Wu, G Jin - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Learning the causal structure of high-dimensional non-stationary time series can help in
understanding the data generation mechanism, which is a crucial task in machine learning …

Hierarchical topological ordering with conditional independence test for limited time series

A Wu, H Li, K Kuang, K Zhang, F Wu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08148, 2023 - arxiv.org
Learning directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to identify causal relations underlying
observational data is crucial but also poses significant challenges. Recently, topology-based …

$\textttcausalAssembly $: Generating Realistic Production Data for Benchmarking Causal Discovery

K Göbler, T Windisch, M Drton… - Causal Learning …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Algorithms for causal discovery have recently undergone rapid advances and increasingly
draw on flexible nonparametric methods to process complex data. With these advances …