Schedule

(based on Washington D.C. time zone)

The First Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval (AgentIR) will take place in room Ohio (also online via Zoom) at Capital Hilton Hotel, in Washington D.C., US. on July 18th, 2024.

Star End Type Event
09:00 10:00 Invited talk Mechanism Design for Large Language Model (WWW 2024 best paper)
Song Zuo (Google)
10:00 10:30 Coffee break  
10:30 11:00 Paper talk EasyRL4Rec: An Easy-to-use Library for Reinforcement Learning Based Recommender Systems
Yuanqing Yu(Tsinghua University)
11:00 11:30 Paper talk Modeling User Retention through Generative Flow Networks
Ziru Liu (City University of Hong Kong)
11:30 14:00 Lunch break  
14:00 15:00 Invited talk AI Agent: From Application to System
Yongfeng Zhang (Rutgers University)
15:00 15:30 Coffee break  
15:30 16:00 Invited talk Data, methods, and evaluation for knowledge-grounded conversational recommendation systems
Julian McAuley (UC San Diego)
16:00 16:30 Paper talk TRAD: Enhancing LLM Agents with Step-Wise Thought Retrieval and Aligned Decision
Ruiwen Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
16:30 17:00 Paper talk Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation
Wentao Shi (University of Science and Technology of China)