Demo Data from EDBT 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Narimawa Watanabe
dblp:426/5681
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 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 · 50% Information retrieval · 50% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 100% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Human-AI interaction · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › model-based reinforcement learning › model learning
world model learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System Evaluation · ACL (1) 2026 |
Information retrieval › evaluation › user simulation
LLM-based user simulation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System Evaluation · ACL (1) 2026 |
Recommender systems
recommender system evaluation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System Evaluation · ACL (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
large language model · 3.0counterfactual trajectory generation · 3.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System EvaluationabstractEvaluating recommender systems remains challenging due to the gap between offline metrics and real user behavior, as well as the scarcity of interaction data.Recent work explores large language model (LLM) agents as synthetic users, yet they typically rely on few-shot prompting, which yields a shallow understanding of the environment and limits their ability to faithfully reproduce user actions.We introduce ALIGNUSER, a framework that learns world-model-driven agents from human interactions.Given rollout sequences of actions and states, we formalize world modeling as a next state prediction task that helps the agent internalize the environment.To align actions with human personas, we generate counterfactual trajectories around demonstrations and prompt the LLM to compare its decisions with human choices, identify suboptimal actions, and extract lessons.The learned policy is then used to drive agent interactions with the recommender system.We evaluate ALIGNUSER across multiple datasets and demonstrate closer alignment with genuine humans than prior work, both at the micro and macro levels. Nicolas Bougie, Gian Maria Marconi, Xiaotong Ye, Narimawa Watanabe |
ACL (1) | 4 |