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Tongyoung Kim

3 accepted papers

2026

RPM: Reasoning-Level Personalization for Black-Box Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

While black-box large language models are widely deployed, they produce generic outputs that overlook individual user preferences. Current personalization methods are fundamentally limited to response-level personalization; they only match final outputs, failing to model the underlying reasoning tha…

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2025

Stop Playing the Guessing Game! Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via Target-free User Simulation

EMNLP 2025

Recent developments in Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have focused on simulating real-world interactions between users and CRSs to create more realistic evaluation environments. Despite considerable advancements, reliably assessing the capability of CRSs in eliciting user preferences rema

2025

Towards Personalized Conversational Sales Agents: Contextual User Profiling for Strategic Action

EMNLP 2025

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to engage users in dialogue to provide tailored recommendations. While traditional CRSs focus on eliciting preferences and retrieving items, real-world e-commerce interactions involve more complex decision-making, where users consider multiple factors be