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Narimawa Watanabe

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › model-based reinforcement learning › model learning
world model learning
1.012026
AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System Evaluation · ACL (1) 2026
Information retrieval › evaluation › user simulation
LLM-based user simulation
1.012026
AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System Evaluation · ACL (1) 2026
Recommender systems
recommender system evaluation
1.012026
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System Evaluation
abstract
Evaluating 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