Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 38 of 38 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2505.20771.

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This paper cites A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems.

Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems

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Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Noise Contrastive Alignment of Language Models with Explicit Rewards.

Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems Noise Contrastive Alignment of Language Models with Explicit Rewards

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This paper cites On Softmax Direct Preference Optimization for Recommendation.

Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems On Softmax Direct Preference Optimization for Recommendation

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This paper cites Chat-REC: Towards Interactive and Explainable LLMs-Augmented Recommender System.

Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems Chat-REC: Towards Interactive and Explainable LLMs-Augmented Recommender System

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Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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This paper cites Session-based Recommendations with Recurrent Neural Networks.

Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems Session-based Recommendations with Recurrent Neural Networks

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This paper cites LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models.

Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

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This paper cites Large Language Models Can Self-Improve.

Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems Large Language Models Can Self-Improve

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Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems Zero-Shot Next-Item Recommendation using Large Pretrained Language Models

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Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions

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Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems Self-Distillation Bridges Distribution Gap in Language Model Fine-Tuning

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A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence cites this paper.

A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems

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Evaluation-driven Scaling for Scientific Discovery Bridging the Gap: Self-Optimized Fine-Tuning for LLM-based Recommender Systems

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