Picking is Not Ranking, and Explanation Quality Has Many Dimensions: Lessons for Conversational Music Recommendation
This work presents team FPMs_UMONS’s system for RecSys Challenge 2026 — hybrid four-channel retrieval, LLM reranking, and conversation-grounded response generation — and the lessons, negative results included, learned building it.
Maxime Manderlier, Fabian Lecron
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