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Generative Recommender Systems using semantic ids, such as TIGER (Rajput et al., 2023), have emerged as a widely adopted competitive paradigm in sequential recommendation. However, existing architectures are designed solely for semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yanchen Jiang , Zhe Feng , Christopher P. Mah , Aranyak Mehta , Di Wang

Leveraging the vast open-world knowledge and understanding capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop general-purpose, semantically-aware recommender systems has emerged as a pivotal research direction in generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhiyang Zhang , Junda She , Kuo Cai , Bo Chen , Shiyao Wang , Xinchen Luo , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

With the rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs), generative recommendation is gradually reshaping the paradigm of recommender systems. However, most existing methods remain confined to the interaction-driven next-item prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yang Yu , Lei Kou , Huaikuan Yi , Bin Chen , Yayu Cao , Lei Shen , Chao Zhang , Bing Wang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Generative Recommendation (GR) has excelled by framing recommendation as next-token prediction. This paradigm relies on Semantic IDs (SIDs) to tokenize large-scale items into discrete sequences. Existing GR approaches predominantly generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jie Jiang , Xinxun Zhang , Enming Zhang , Yuling Xiong , Jun Zhang , Jingwen Wang , Huan Yu , Yuxiang Wang , Hao Wang , Xiao Yan , Jiawei Jiang

Recent advancements in generative models have allowed the emergence of a promising paradigm for recommender systems (RS), known as Generative Recommendation (GR), which tries to unify rich item semantics and collaborative filtering signals.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jingzhe Liu , Liam Collins , Jiliang Tang , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Clark Mingxuan Ju

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

Generative models are increasingly used in recommender systems, both for modeling user behavior as event sequences and for integrating large language models into recommendation pipelines. A key challenge in this setting is the extremely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kirill Khrylchenko

Many recommendation systems limit user inputs to text strings or behavior signals such as clicks and purchases, and system outputs to a list of products sorted by relevance. With the advent of generative AI, users have come to expect richer…

Generative recommendation systems have gained increasing attention as an innovative approach that directly generates item identifiers for recommendation tasks. Despite their potential, a major challenge is the effective construction of item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Cheng Ling , Lantao Hu , Han Li , Wayne Xin Zhao

Generative retrieval has recently emerged as a promising approach to sequential recommendation, framing candidate item retrieval as an autoregressive sequence generation problem. However, existing generative methods typically focus solely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ye Wang , Jiahao Xun , Minjie Hong , Jieming Zhu , Tao Jin , Wang Lin , Haoyuan Li , Linjun Li , Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao , Zhenhua Dong

Generative recommendation has emerged as a scalable alternative to traditional retrieve-and-rank pipelines by operating in a compact token space. However, existing methods mainly rely on discrete code-level supervision, which leads to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ziqi Xue , Dingxian Wang , Yimeng Bai , Shuai Zhu , Jialei Li , Xiaoyan Zhao , Frank Yang , Andrew Rabinovich , Yang Zhang , Pablo N. Mendes

Generative recommendation (GR) has gained increasing attention for its promising performance compared to traditional models. A key factor contributing to the success of GR is the semantic ID (SID), which converts continuous semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Clark Mingxuan Ju , Liam Collins , Leonardo Neves , Bhuvesh Kumar , Louis Yufeng Wang , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah

Conversational recommender systems have attracted immense attention recently. The most recent approaches rely on neural models trained on recorded dialogs between humans, implementing an end-to-end learning process. These systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach

Providing user-understandable explanations to justify recommendations could help users better understand the recommended items, increase the system's ease of use, and gain users' trust. A typical approach to realize it is natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Lei Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Li Chen

Generative recommendation (GR) models tokenize each action into a few discrete tokens (called semantic IDs) and autoregressively generate the next tokens as predictions, showing advantages such as memory efficiency, scalability, and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Qiyong Zhong , Jiajie Su , Yunshan Ma , Julian McAuley , Yupeng Hou

The goal of modern sequential recommender systems is often formulated in terms of next-item prediction. In this paper, we explore the applicability of generative transformer-based models for the Top-K sequential recommendation task, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Anna Volodkevich , Danil Gusak , Anton Klenitskiy , Alexey Vasilev

Generative recommender systems have recently attracted attention by formulating next-item prediction as an autoregressive sequence generation task. However, most existing methods optimize standard next-token likelihood and implicitly treat…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei-Ning Chiu , Chuan-Ju Wang , Pu-Jen Cheng

Recommender systems serve as foundational infrastructure in modern information ecosystems, helping users navigate digital content and discover items aligned with their preferences. At their core, recommender systems address a fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Min Hou , Le Wu , Yuxin Liao , Yonghui Yang , Zhen Zhang , Yu Wang , Changlong Zheng , Han Wu , Richang Hong

Training recommender systems for next-item recommendation often requires unique embeddings to be learned for each item, which may take up most of the trainable parameters for a model. Shared embeddings, such as using content information,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 M. Jeffrey Mei , Florian Henkel , Samuel E. Sandberg , Oliver Bembom , Andreas F. Ehmann

Generative recommendation is an emerging paradigm that leverages the extensive knowledge of large language models by formulating recommendations into a text-to-text generation task. However, existing studies face two key limitations in (i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sunkyung Lee , Minjin Choi , Eunseong Choi , Hye-young Kim , Jongwuk Lee