Minjie Hong

Traditional recommendation systems represent users and items as dense vectors and learn to align them in a shared latent space for relevance estimation. Recent LLM-based recommenders instead leverage natural-language representations that are easier to interpret and integrate with downstream reaso...

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are powerful at integrating diverse data but often struggle with complex reasoning. Reinforcement learning (RL) can enhance reasoning, yet it may cause performance degradation on general tasks and overthinking in MLLMs. We propose Asymmetric Policy Optimiz...