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Vedant Thakkar
dblp:369/8510
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0009-2473-7852ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Recommender systems · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Recommender systems
cold-start recommendation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Precision vs. Discovery: An Adaptive Agent Navigating the Cold-Start Trade-off · WSDM 2026 |
Recommender systems › collaborative filtering
hybrid recommendation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Precision vs. Discovery: An Adaptive Agent Navigating the Cold-Start Trade-off · WSDM 2026 |
Recommender systems
multi-agent recommendation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Precision vs. Discovery: An Adaptive Agent Navigating the Cold-Start Trade-off · WSDM 2026 |
Recommender systems › personalized ranking
bayesian personalized ranking |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Precision vs. Discovery: An Adaptive Agent Navigating the Cold-Start Trade-off · WSDM 2026 |
Recommender systems
collaborative filtering |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Precision vs. Discovery: An Adaptive Agent Navigating the Cold-Start Trade-off · WSDM 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
semantic search · 1.0multi-agent orchestration · 1.0Sentence-BERT · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Precision vs. Discovery: An Adaptive Agent Navigating the Cold-Start Trade-offabstractMonolithic recommender systems struggle to serve a diverse user base, often failing new 'cold-start' users while excelling for established 'warm-start' users. This paper introduces MARS (Multi-Agent Recommender System), a novel hybrid system where a central Manager Agent orchestrates recommendation tasks based on user context. MARS adaptively delegates requests to either a high-performing Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) model for established users or a Sentence-BERT (SBERT) semantic search model for new users. Our experiments on the MovieLens 20M dataset demonstrate the agent's orchestration logic is effective, perfectly matching the strong BPR baseline for warm-start users across all metrics. For cold-start users, we quantitatively prove a critical ''Precision vs. Discovery'' trade-off: while a popularity-based baseline achieves significantly higher precision (0.3068 vs 0.0115), the MARS semantic pathway functions as a true discovery engine, delivering recommendations with over 10x higher novelty (14.40 vs 1.24). Furthermore, we demonstrate that the MARS cold-start path is over 20 times faster, delivering a significant latency advantage for new users. This work contributes a robust, adaptive architecture, a key design pattern for building agentic systems, and a rigorous, quantitative benchmark of the trade-offs between precision and discovery in modern recommender systems. Our implementation and dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/Vedant-1012/Multi-Agent-Recommender-System-MARS Vedant Thakkar |
WSDM | 1 |