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Generative models powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as a unified solution for powering both recommendation and search tasks. A key design choice in these models is how to represent items, traditionally through unique…

Conversational recommender systems aim to provide personalized recommendations via natural language interactions. However, existing approaches either decouple recommendation from dialog generation or rely on retrieval-based pipelines,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long

Generative recommender systems have recently emerged as a promising paradigm by formulating next-item prediction as an auto-regressive semantic IDs generation, such as OneRec series works. However, with the next-item-agnostic prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yu Liu , Jiangxia Cao

The retrieval phase is a vital component in recommendation systems, requiring the model to be effective and efficient. Recently, generative retrieval has become an emerging paradigm for document retrieval, showing notable performance. These…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zihua Si , Zhongxiang Sun , Jiale Chen , Guozhang Chen , Xiaoxue Zang , Kai Zheng , Yang Song , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu , Kun Gai

Leveraging long-term user behavioral patterns is a key trajectory for enhancing the accuracy of modern recommender systems. While generative recommender systems have emerged as a transformative paradigm, they face hurdles in effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shiteng Cao , Junda She , Ji Liu , Bin Zeng , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Zhiheng Li , Cheng Yang

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-based models such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Sequential recommendation (SR) is traditionally formulated as next-item prediction over a chronological sequence of interacted items. Although recent generative recommendation (GR) methods introduce new machinery, such as semantic IDs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yingyi Zhang , Junyi Li , Yejing Wang , Wenlin Zhang , Xiaowei Qian , Sheng Zhang , Yue Feng , Yichao Wang , Yong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xianneng Li

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

Embedding-based retrieval serves as a dominant approach to candidate item matching for industrial recommender systems. With the success of generative AI, generative retrieval has recently emerged as a new retrieval paradigm for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jieming Zhu , Mengqun Jin , Qijiong Liu , Zexuan Qiu , Zhenhua Dong , Xiu Li

Semantic ID (SID)-based recommendation is a promising paradigm for scaling sequential recommender systems, but existing methods largely follow a semantic-centric pipeline: item embeddings are learned from foundation models and discretized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Liang , Zhongjin Zhang , Yuxuan Zhu , Kerui Zhang , Zhiluohan Guo , Wenhang Zhou , Zonqi Yang , Kangle Wu , Yabo Ni , Anxiang Zeng , Cong Fu , Jianxin Wang , Jiazhi Xia

Sequential dense retrieval models utilize advanced sequence learning techniques to compute item and user representations, which are then used to rank relevant items for a user through inner product computation between the user and all item…

Recent advances in generative recommendation have leveraged pretrained LLMs by formulating sequential recommendation as autoregressive generation over a unified token space comprising language tokens and itemic identifiers, where each item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yingzhi He , Yan Sun , Junfei Tan , Yuxin Chen , Xiaoyu Kong , Chunxu Shen , Xiang Wang , An Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Sequential recommendation is a task to capture hidden user preferences from historical user item interaction data and recommend next items for the user. Significant progress has been made in this domain by leveraging classification based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Panfeng Cao , Pietro Lio

Semantic ID-based recommendation models tokenize each item into a small number of discrete tokens that preserve specific semantics, leading to better performance, scalability, and memory efficiency. While recent models adopt a generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yupeng Hou , Jiacheng Li , Ashley Shin , Jinsung Jeon , Abhishek Santhanam , Wei Shao , Kaveh Hassani , Ning Yao , Julian McAuley

In Semantic-ID (SID) based generative recommendation, each item is represented as a sequence of discrete codes, and an autoregressive model is trained to generate the SID sequence of the next item; top-K performance is then measured by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qian Zhang , Lech Szymanski , Haibo Zhang , Jeremiah D. Deng

Generative recommendation (GR) is an emerging paradigm that tokenizes items into discrete tokens and learns to autoregressively generate the next tokens as predictions. While this token-generation paradigm is expected to surpass traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yijie Ding , Jiacheng Li , Julian McAuley , Yupeng Hou

Semantic ID learning is a key interface in Generative Recommendation (GR) models, mapping items to discrete identifiers grounded in side information, most commonly via a pretrained text encoder. However, these text encoders are primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Shutong Qiao , Wei Yuan , Tong Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Generative recommendation treats next-item prediction as autoregressive item-identifier generation. Specifically, items are encoded as semantic identifiers (SIDs), which are short coarse-to-fine token sequences whose early tokens capture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zaiyi Zheng , Guanghui Min , Yaochen Zhu , Liang Wu , Liangjie Hong , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Semantic identifiers (IDs) have proven effective in adapting large language models for generative recommendation and retrieval. However, existing methods often suffer from semantic ID conflicts, where semantically similar documents (or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ruohan Zhang , Jiacheng Li , Julian McAuley , Yupeng Hou
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