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Workshop Program

IEEE ICDM International Workshop on AI for Personalization (WAIP)
Room: Rome
November 12, 2026
Time Slot Topic & Presenter(s)
8:30-8:40 Opening Remarks
8:40-9:20 Session Chair: Prof. Pengyang Wang
Keynote: TBD
9:20-9:35 Naofumi Osawa
"Raw Histories or Compact Profiles? A Cost-Aware Empirical Study of User History Representations for Personalized Review Generation with LLMs"
9:35-9:50 Nikhil Bhale, Apurva Pathak, SaiSujithKumarReddy MarapaReddy, Xiao Yin, and Prateek Bhansali
"Improving Ads Ranking Models with Auxiliary Supervision: Techniques and Insights"
9:50-10:10 Break
Session Chair: Prof. Pengyang Wang
10:10-10:25 Apurva Pathak, Yuya Shiraki, Iman Jenabzadeh, Nikhil Bhale, Yuwen Tan, Shashank Rangarajan, and Amirmehdi Sharifzad
"Dynamic Click Destinations: Personalizing Post Ad-Click Landing Experiences"
10:25-10:40 Chang Xu
"Profile-Based Ranking When Interaction History Is Unavailable: A Randomized-Exposure Study"
10:40-10:55 Jin Ju, Sicong Zang, Yongquan Wan, Xiaodi Zhang, and Cairong Yan
"CrossTutor: A Neural Contextual Bandit Framework for Cross-Course Cold-Start Tutoring"
10:55-11:10 Faranak Solat
"AllerFed: Privacy-Preserving Personalized Federated Learning with Lightweight LLMs for Consumer Food-Sensitivity Support"
11:10-11:25 Xiuling Liu, Xiaodi Zhang, Yongquan Wan, and Cairong Yan
"CogPrompt: A Cognitive-Aware Prompt-Augmented Agent for Personalized Tutoring"
11:25-11:40 Yajie Dong, Yanting Zhang, Yongquan Wan, and Cairong Yan
"BCPM: Disentangling Auxiliary Behaviors for MOOC Video Recommendation"