STEP: Stepwise Curriculum Learning for Context-Knowledge Fusion in Conversational Recommendation.

@inproceedings{yang-2025-step, author = {Zhenye Yang and Jinpeng Chen and Huan Li and Xiongnan Jin and Xuanyang Li and Junwei Zhang and Hongbo Gao and Kaimin Wei and Senzhang Wang}, editor = {Meeyoung Cha and Carl Yang and Senjuti Basu Roy and Chanyoung Park and Zhenhui Jessie Li and Noseong Park and Carl Yang and Senjuti Basu Roy and Zhenhui Jessie Li and Jaap Kamps and Kijung Shin and Bryan Hooi and Lifang He}, title = {{STEP: Stepwise Curriculum Learning for Context-Knowledge Fusion in Conversational Recommendation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025}}, pages = {3824--3833}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2025}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3746252.3761186}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3746252.3761186} }