cs.IR · 2026-07-16 · No. 55

Information Retrieval, 2026-07-16.

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    Can We Steer the Black-Box? Towards Controllability-Centric Evaluation of Recommender Systems with Collaborative Agents

    Jiwen Zhou, Xiang Liu, Mingming Li, Pengbo Mo, Jiao Dai, Honglei Lv, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu

    cs.IR · cs.AI

    Recommender systems operate as Black-Boxes, leaving users and regulators unable to steer their outputs toward specific intentions or audit their behavior. This lack of controllability, defined as the system's ability to respond to explicit guidance, remains an unaddressed dimension in existing evaluation paradigms. To fill this gap, we propose CtrlBench-Rec, a collaborative multi-agent framework for systematic assessment of controllability....

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.13418 · PDF

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