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Yupeng Hou

16 papers at tracked venues · 12 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×4SIGKDD ×3CIKM ×2WWW ×2AAAI ×1ICDE ×1ICML ×1NAACL ×1RecSys ×1

Frequent coauthors

Julian J. McAuley
×11
Wayne Xin Zhao
×4
Jiacheng Li
×3
Zhankui He
×3
Ji-Rong Wen
×3
An Zhang
×2
Leheng Sheng
×2
Xiang Wang
×2
Tat-Seng Chua
×2
Hongyu Lu
×2
Yu Chen
×2
Junda Wu
×2

Papers

  1. Bridging Language and Items for Retrieval and Recommendation: Benchmarking LLMs as Semantic Encoders
    ACL 2026 · Yupeng Hou,
    Jiacheng Li
    ,
    Xiangjun Fu
    ,
    Zhankui He
    ,
    An Yan
    ,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  2. Deriving Character Logic from Storyline as Codified Decision Trees
    ACL 2026 ·
    Letian Peng
    ,
    Kun Zhou
    ,
    Longfei Yun
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Jingbo Shang
  3. Inductive Generative Recommendation via Retrieval-based Speculation
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Yijie Ding
    ,
    Jiacheng Li
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    , Yupeng Hou
  4. ActionPiece: Contextually Tokenizing Action Sequences for Generative Recommendation
    ICML 2025 · Yupeng Hou,
    Jianmo Ni
    ,
    Zhankui He
    ,
    Noveen Sachdeva
    ,
    Wang-Cheng Kang
    ,
    Ed H. Chi
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Derek Zhiyuan Cheng
  5. Generating Long Semantic IDs in Parallel for Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2025 · Yupeng Hou,
    Jiacheng Li
    ,
    Ashley Shin
    ,
    Jinsung Jeon
    ,
    Abhishek Santhanam
    ,
    Wei Shao
    ,
    Kaveh Hassani
    ,
    Ning Yao
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  6. Generative Recommendation Models: Progress and Directions
    WWW 2025 · Yupeng Hou,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Leheng Sheng
    ,
    Zhengyi Yang
    ,
    Xiang Wang
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  7. Mosaic-IT: Cost-Free Compositional Data Synthesis for Instruction Tuning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Ming Li
    ,
    Pei Chen
    ,
    Chenguang Wang
    ,
    Hongyu Zhao
    ,
    Yijun Liang
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Fuxiao Liu
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
  8. Towards Large Generative Recommendation: A Tokenization Perspective
    CIKM 2025 · Yupeng Hou,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Leheng Sheng
    ,
    Jiancan Wu
    ,
    Xiang Wang
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  9. Unlocking Decoding-time Controllability: Gradient-Free Multi-Objective Alignment with Contrastive Prompts
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Tingchen Fu
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Rui Yan
  10. Adapting Large Language Models by Integrating Collaborative Semantics for Recommendation
    ICDE 2024 ·
    Bowen Zheng
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Hongyu Lu
    ,
    Yu Chen
    ,
    Wayne Xin Zhao
    ,
    Ming Chen
    ,
    Ji-Rong Wen
  11. AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems
    WWW 2024 ·
    Junjie Zhang
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Ruobing Xie
    ,
    Wenqi Sun
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Wayne Xin Zhao
    ,
    Leyu Lin
    ,
    Ji-Rong Wen
  12. CoRAL: Collaborative Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models Improve Long-tail Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Cheng-Chun Chang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Zhankui He
    ,
    Jianing Wang
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Julian J. McAuley
  13. InstructGraph: Boosting Large Language Models via Graph-centric Instruction Tuning and Preference Alignment
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jianing Wang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Yao Liu
    ,
    Ming Gao
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  14. Multi-Behavior Generative Recommendation
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Zihan Liu
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Julian J. McAuley
  15. Revisiting Reciprocal Recommender Systems: Metrics, Formulation, and Method
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Chen Yang
    ,
    Sunhao Dai
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Wayne Xin Zhao
    ,
    Jun Xu
    ,
    Yang Song
    ,
    Hengshu Zhu
  16. Scaling Law of Large Sequential Recommendation Models
    RecSys 2024 ·
    Gaowei Zhang
    , Yupeng Hou,
    Hongyu Lu
    ,
    Yu Chen
    ,
    Wayne Xin Zhao
    ,
    Ji-Rong Wen