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Ed H. Chi

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Real-Time LLM-Powered User Personas for Scalable Video Recommendations

This work introduces a novel framework for real-time generation of LLM-based user interest personas in large-scale video recommendation systems. It addresses challenges of semantic richness, adaptability, and interpretability by creating natural-language personas that balance exploration and exploitation. The system employs a cost-efficient architecture with knowledge distillation, asynchronous inference, and optimized video representations to enable online LLM inference at scale, validated by offline, user, and A/B testing.

Evo-Memory: A Streaming Benchmark Exposes Critical Gaps in LLM Agent Test-Time Memory Evolution

Current LLM agent memory evaluations are limited to static, passive retrieval from conversation history — failing to capture the dynamic, continuous learning required in real-world deployments. Evo-Memory addresses this by introducing a streaming benchmark that structures tasks into sequential streams, requiring agents to actively retrieve, adapt, and update memory after each interaction. The paper unifies 10+ memory modules across 10 diverse datasets and proposes ReMem, an action-think-memory refine pipeline designed to enable genuine continual improvement at test time.