@article{stepstepwisecurriculumlearningforcontext, title = {STEP: Stepwise Curriculum Learning for Context-Knowledge Fusion in Conversational Recommendation}, 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}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2508.10669}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10669}, }