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Aligning Recommendations with User Popularity Preferences

Aligning Recommendations with User Popularity Preferences

Aligning Recommendations with User Popularity Preferences explores SPREE, an inference-time method for sequential recommenders that steers model activations to align recommendations with individual user popularity preferences, improving alignment while preserving quality.. Commercial viability score: 7/10 in Recommender Systems.

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"SPREE, an inference-time method for sequential recommenders that steers model activations to align recommendations with individual user popularity preferences, improving alignment while preserving quality."

Recommender Systems•Score: 7•View PDF ↗

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