Yongfeng Zhang

The evolution of recommender systems has shifted from traditional collaborative filtering to LLM-based agentic systems, which rely on semantic user and item memories to make predictions. However, existing agents maintain these memories in isolation. This overlooks crucial collaborative signals, s...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are exhibiting emergent human-like abilities and are envisioned as the tool for simulating an individual’s communication patterns, behaviors, and personality traits. However, current evaluations of LLM-based persona simulation remain limited: most rely on synthetic di...