Interplay: Training Independent Simulators for Reference-Free Conversational Recommendation.

@inproceedings{ramos-2026-interplay, author = {Jerome Ramos and Feng Xia and Xi Wang and Shubham Chatterjee and Xiao Fu and Hossein A. Rahmani and Aldo Lipani}, editor = {Ricardo Campos and Adam Jatowt and Yanyan Lan and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Christine Bauer and Sean MacAvaney and Avishek Anand and Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne and Nan Bai and Masoud Mansoury}, title = {{Interplay: Training Independent Simulators for Reference-Free Conversational Recommendation}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part I}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16483}, pages = {629--644}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21289-4_40}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21289-4_40} }