Personalized Generative AI

9:00 - 9:15                    Opening Remarks

9:15 - 10:00                  Keynote 1: Chenlei (Edward) Guo "Towards Personalized Experience  in Large-scale Conversational Agents"       

10:00 - 10:15               Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:00                Keynote 2: Jianmo Ni "Large Language Models for Recommender Systems"            

11:00 - 12:00               Contributed Talks Session I

• ChatCounselor: A Large Language Models for Mental Health Support

• Do LLMs Understand User Preferences? Evaluating LLMs on User Rating Prediction

• Integrating Summarization and Retrieval for Enhanced Personalization via Large Language Models

• Hiformer: Heterogeneous Feature Integrations with Transformers for Recommender Systems

12:00 - 13:00              Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:00              Contributed Talks Session II

• On the Effectiveness of Creating Conversational Agent Personalities Through Prompting

• LlamaRec: Two-stage Recommendation using Large Language Models for Ranking

• Recmind: large language model powered agent for recommendation

• On the steerability of large language models toward data-driven personas

• Probing Large Language Models as User Simulators for Conversational Recommendation

14:00 - 14:15               Coffee Break

14:15 - 15:00               Keynote 3: Heng Ji "Personalized Generation for Lurkers"

15:00 - 15:45               Keynote 4: Misha Sra "Human Augmentation"

15:45 - 16:00              Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00              Panel Discussion (Michelle Zhou , Yinglong Xia, Ruhi Sarikaya)

17:00 - 17:15                Adjourn