Zhiying Tu

Yong Wang, Hongliang Sun, Jinlan Liu et al.

Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for recommendation by interpreting item descriptions, user instructions, and external knowledge through natural-language prompts. However, existing graph-augmented LLM recommenders often use knowledge graphs mainly as prompt-level evidence, leaving ranking decisions weakly constrained by structured user-item relations. This is problematic for next-item recommendation, where the model must compare candidates under the same user context while preserving temporal preference, collaborative signals, and attribute matches. To address this issue, we propose \emph{GARDRec}, a Graph-grounded Adaptive Reasoning and Decision-aware Recommendation framework for LLM-based next-item ranking. GARDRec constructs semantic-structural item representations from textual node features and graph propagation, derives personalized graph contexts from temporally weighted histories and first-order neighborhoods, and aligns graph-derived representations with a frozen LLM through continuous multimodal prompts. Explicit interaction and matching features are injected through late-stage decision branches, while inter-candidate attention and restricted generative likelihood support final ranking. Experiments on three public benchmarks with multiple LLM backbones show that GARDRec generally improves candidate-ranking performance over representative baselines. Ablation and diagnostic analyses verify the contributions of graph projection, neighborhood retrieval, explicit decision features, ranking loss, and generative calibration.

Yicheng Liu, Bolin Zhang, Weiran Liu et al.

LLM-based agents now have strong general capabilities. However, they still struggle with domain-specific tasks, motivating the integration of external tools to broaden their capabilities. The open-source community offers a vast array of AI models typically released as heterogeneous research artifacts, whereas transforming them into ready-to-call APIs is costly and labor-intensive. Automated model deployment is therefore essential for bridging the gap between model resources and tool usability, yet it remains a long-horizon, multi-stage task that has not been sufficiently explored. To tackle this challenge, we introduce Model Automated Deployment Engine (MADE), a dual-agent coordination system. Specifically, given a model resource, MADE iteratively constructs and validates the deployment artifacts, updates its deployment belief based on execution feedback, and revisits invalid upstream artifacts until the model is successfully served as a ready-to-call API that can then be used by other agents. We further introduce M2ABench, a benchmark for the task of transforming Models to ready-to-call APIs. M2ABench comprises 122 real-world models with standardized test cases for evaluation. Experimental results demonstrate that MADE achieves a deployment success rate of 68.85%, outperforming SWE-agent and OpenHands by 13.93 and 44.26 percentage points, respectively. Our code and dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/HITDiSC/MADE.

Can Wang, Haoran Chen, Haowen Gao et al.

Deep research benchmarks require expert-level tasks and reliable evaluation grounded in task-specific knowledge. Existing benchmarks rely heavily on expert authoring or pre-existing human-authored materials, while fully automatic construction struggles to ensure consistent and traceable verification. To address this gap, we introduce a verifiable benchmark of 500 deep research tasks spanning 31 topics and 10 major categories, with three query forms designed to probe complementary capabilities required for deep research. The benchmark is constructed automatically using an iterative Explorer-Formalizer-Challenger pipeline that progressively transforms simple questions into deep research tasks. Each task is represented as a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of atomic steps and associated checkpoints, enabling the query, DAG, and rubrics to evolve together in a controlled manner. Experiments demonstrate that the benchmark clearly discriminates among models and query types, while its fact-grounded pointwise rubrics enable fine-grained, human-aligned, and stable evaluation. Our data, implementation, and results are publicly available.