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The Bandit's Blind Spot: The Critical Role of User State Representation in Recommender Systems

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Main Authors:	Pires, Pedro R., Azevedo, Gregorio F., Sereicikas, Rafael T., Campos, Pietro L., Almeida, Tiago A.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Information Retrieval Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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