JM

Julian McAuley

0000-0003-0955-7588

cs.AIcs.CLcs.LGcs.IRcs.CVcs.SDeess.AScs.MMstat.MLcs.SI

On Valency

published · living versions

SPDMX: Large-Scale Open Stem Audio From Symbolic Music

with Phillip Long, Eduardo Escoto, Zachary Novack

1 version

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What Gets Hacked in a Collaborative Reward for LLM Recommenders: The Part That Does Not Depend on the User

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Preprints & journals

353 papers in the corpus · 2007–2026

RealControlBench: A Benchmark for Interpretability-Informed Fine-Grained Control of LLMs and Agents

Xinying Cai, Bin Hu, Mingyu Jin et al.

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2610.27295v12026arXiv

Does Latent Chain-of-Thought Actually Reason? A Single, Unifying Taxonomy for Latent Reasoning

Jingjie Qiu, Sheldon Yu, Xunyi Jiang et al.

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2610.21182v12026arXiv

Seeing, Maintaining, and Learning: The Evolution of Multimodal Agent Memory

Minghao Guo, Qingyue Jiao, Xiujin Liu et al.

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2610.19366v12026arXiv

Failure Is the Mother of Success: Recovering Supervision with Grounding Hindsight

Sheldon Yu, Tong Yu, Nikki Lijing Kuang et al.

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2610.21018v12026arXiv

Pack Light, CarryOn: Building Object-Oriented Context for Long-Horizon Agents

Yuchen Lu, Julian McAuley, Lei Zhang

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2610.18784v22026arXiv

Personal-Agent Mediated Recommendation with Cross-Platform User History

Yu Xia, Jiangfan Zhang, Jun Xiao et al.

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2610.07588v12026arXiv

Self-Retrospection Distillation: Turning Post-hoc Experiences into Prior Foresight

Haoxiang Zhang, Qinglin Chen, Hiroaki Hayashi et al.

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2610.08077v32026arXiv

OpticalRec: Unified Optical Vision-Language Representation for Multimodal Recommendation

Yueqi Wang, Zitian Guo, Yupeng Hou et al.

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2610.05432v12026arXiv

SPRINT: Single-Step Generative Recommendation via Average Probability Velocity

Zhuo Cai, Shoujin Wang, Peilin Zhou et al.

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2609.34306v12026arXiv

JazzSAMBA: A Synchronous and Asynchronous Multi-take Band Audio Dataset of Jazz Standards for Live Music Models

Phillip Long, Jacob Nguyen, Jace Hosto et al.

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2609.34931v12026arXiv

OPBackdoor: Opportunistic Backdoors via Alibi-Aligned Reasoning

Eric Xue, Ruiyi Zhang, Kevin Xue et al.

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2609.24826v12026arXiv

How Calibration Content Shapes Attention-Based Reranking

Petros Karypis, Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, Peter Chen et al.

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2609.17764v12026arXiv

Spurious Tool Use: When RL Agents Learn the Wrong Reason to Act

Yiwei Yang, Haoxiang Zhang, Bingbing Wen et al.

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2609.16268v12026arXiv

Agent2UCB: Agentic System for Generative Engine Optimization

Sheldon Yu, Rui Wang, Tong Yu et al.

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2608.29063v12026arXiv

Toward Latent Language Model Skills Steering and Optimization: An Empirical Study

Xunyi Jiang, Junda Wu, Yuxin Xiong et al.

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2608.29459v12026arXiv

On-Policy Self-Distillation in Diffusion Models

Wei Zhou, Xiongwei Zhu, Lingdong Kong et al.

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2608.24646v12026arXiv

MusPyExpress: Extending MusPy with Enhanced Expression Text Support

Phillip Long, Hao-Wen Dong, Julian McAuley et al.

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2608.21678v12026arXiv

Dialogue-Aware Video-to-Music Generation Using Public Domain Film Collections

Haven Kim, Zachary Novack, Julian McAuley et al.

0 citations

2608.11576v12026arXiv

Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence

Mengru Wang, Junfeng Fang, Shuofei Qiao et al.

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2608.12036v32026arXiv

Agentic Commerce World: An Auditable and Verifiable Environment for Vibe Commerce

Shicheng Fan, Mingdai Yang, Duohao Wang et al.

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2608.02441v12026arXiv

Filesystem-Based Memory for LLM Agents: Organization, Evolution, and Sustainability

Sizhe Zhou, Sheldon Yu, Hui Wei et al.

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2607.26637v12026arXiv

How Hard Does It Think? Analyzing Step-Aware Reasoning Energy in LLM Chain-of-Thought Trajectories

Hui Wei, Junda Wu, Sheldon Yu et al.

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2607.28674v12026arXiv

Can We Break LLMs Out of Self-Loops? Fine-Grained Reasoning Control with Activation Steering

Sheldon Yu, Tong Yu, Xunyi Jiang et al.

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2607.18100v12026arXiv

RRPO: Reference-Relative Policy Optimization with Stratified Conditional Rollouts

Yuxin Xiong, Xunyi Jiang, Rohan Surana et al.

0 citations

2607.18470v12026arXiv

ZoRRO: A Zero-Weight Personalized Recommender System for Scalable News Recommendation

Johannes Kruse, Ryotaro Shimizu, Kasper Lindskow et al.

0 citations

2607.10910v12026arXiv

Normative Alignment of Recommender Systems via Internal Label Shift

Johannes Kruse, Kasper Lindskow, Michael Riis Andersen et al.

1 citation

2607.10915v12026arXiv

LeRoPE: Learnable RoPE Frequencies Improve Language Modeling

Petros Karypis, Sean O'Brien, Shreyas Kadekodi et al.

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2607.10134v12026arXiv

Spider 2.0-AIFunc: Extending Real-World Text-to-SQL to AI-Native SQL Workflows

Tianyang Liu, Canwen Xu, Fangyu Lei et al.

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2607.06229v12026arXiv

Efficient and Trainable Language Model Test-Time Scaling via Local Branch Routing

Yutong Yin, Mingyu Jin, Jin Pan et al.

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2606.25354v22026arXiv

Agentic Chain-of-Thought Steering for Efficient and Controllable LLM Reasoning

Yu Xia, Zhouhang Xie, Xin Xu et al.

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2606.03965v22026arXiv

Masking Stale Observations Helps Search Agents -- Until It Doesn't: A Regime Map and Its Mechanism

Haoxiang Zhang, Qixin Xu, Zhuofeng Li et al.

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2606.00408v12026arXiv

Live Music Diffusion Models: Efficient Fine-Tuning and Post-Training of Interactive Diffusion Music Generators

Zachary Novack, Stephen Brade, Haven Kim et al.

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2605.22717v12026arXiv

Auto-Dreamer: Learning Offline Memory Consolidation for Language Agents

Chongrui Ye, Yuxiang Liu, Yu Wang et al.

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2605.20616v12026arXiv

F-GRPO: Factorized Group-Relative Policy Optimization for Unified Candidate Generation and Ranking

Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Junda Wu et al.

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2605.12995v12026arXiv

MLPs are Efficient Distilled Generative Recommenders

Zitian Guo, Yupeng Hou, Clark Mingxuan Ju et al.

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2605.12617v12026arXiv

FERA: Uncertainty-Aware Federated Reasoning for Large Language Models

Ruhan Wang, Chengkai Huang, Zhiyong Wang et al.

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2605.10082v12026arXiv

MASS-DPO: Multi-negative Active Sample Selection for Direct Policy Optimization

Rohan Surana, Xintong Li, Sheldon Yu et al.

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2605.10784v12026arXiv

OLIVIA: Online Learning via Inference-time Action Adaptation for Decision Making in LLM ReAct Agents

Sheldon Yu, Junda Wu, Xintong Li et al.

0 citations

2605.11169v12026arXiv

Skill-R1: Agent Skill Evolution via Reinforcement Learning

Yash Vishe, Rohan Surana, Xunyi Jiang et al.

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2605.09359v12026arXiv

Reddit2Deezer: A Scalable Dataset for Real-World Grounded Conversational Music Recommendation

Haven Kim, Julian McAuley

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2605.09120v12026arXiv

Skill-CMIB: Multimodal Agent Skill for Consistent Action via Conditional Multimodal Information Bottleneck

Zihan Huang, Junda Wu, Tong Yu et al.

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2605.08526v12026arXiv

Expressiveness Limits of Autoregressive Semantic ID Generation in Generative Recommendation

Yupeng Hou, Haven Kim, Clark Mingxuan Ju et al.

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2605.06331v12026arXiv

From Local Indices to Global Identifiers: Generative Reranking for Recommender Systems via Global Action Space

Pengyue Jia, Xiaobei Wang, Yingyi Zhang et al.

1 citation

2604.25291v12026arXiv

Sink-Token-Aware Pruning for Fine-Grained Video Understanding in Efficient Video LLMs

Kibum Kim, Jiwan Kim, Kyle Min et al.

0 citations

2604.20937v22026arXiv

CocoaBench: Evaluating Unified Digital Agents in the Wild

CocoaBench Team: Shibo Hao, Zhining Zhang, Zhiqi Liang et al.

0 citations

2604.11201v22026arXiv

Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learning

Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Xunyi Jiang et al.

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2605.02913v12026arXiv

Retrieval Augmented Conversational Recommendation with Reinforcement Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Honglei Zhuang, Zhen Qin et al.

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2604.04457v22026arXiv

Think in Strokes, Not Pixels: Process-Driven Image Generation via Interleaved Reasoning

Lei Zhang, Junjiao Tian, Zhipeng Fan et al.

1 citation

2604.04746v32026arXiv

Composer Vector: Style-steering Symbolic Music Generation in a Latent Space

Xunyi Jiang, Mingyang Yao, Jingyue Huang et al.

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2604.03333v12026arXiv

Learning to Hint for Reinforcement Learning

Yu Xia, Canwen Xu, Zhewei Yao et al.

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2604.00698v12026arXiv

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