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Many sequential recommender systems suffer from the cold start problem, where items with few or no interactions cannot be effectively used by the model due to the absence of a trained embedding. Content-based approaches, which leverage item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Anton Pembek , Artem Fatkulin , Anton Klenitskiy , Alexey Vasilev

A widely held hypothesis for why generative recommendation (GR) models outperform conventional item ID-based models is that they generalize better. However, there is few systematic way to verify this hypothesis beyond a superficial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yijie Ding , Zitian Guo , Jiacheng Li , Letian Peng , Shuai Shao , Wei Shao , Xiaoqiang Luo , Luke Simon , Jingbo Shang , Julian McAuley , Yupeng Hou

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

Traditional recommendation models often rely on unique item identifiers (IDs) to distinguish between items, which can hinder their ability to effectively leverage item content information and generalize to long-tailed or cold-start items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Qijiong Liu , Jieming Zhu , Zhaocheng Du , Lu Fan , Zhou Zhao , Xiao-Ming Wu

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

With the rapid development of recommender systems, there is increasing side information that can be employed to improve the recommendation performance. Specially, we focus on the utilization of the associated \emph{textual data} of items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Lanling Xu , Zhen Tian , Bingqian Li , Junjie Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Mingchen Cai , Wayne Xin Zhao

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

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

Recommender systems traditionally represent items using unique identifiers (ItemIDs), but this approach struggles with large, dynamic item corpora and sparse long-tail data, limiting scalability and generalization. Semantic IDs, derived…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Xu , Moyu Zhang , Chenxuan Li , Zhihao Liao , Haibo Xing , Hao Deng , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Neural approaches to learning term embeddings have led to improved computation of similarity and ranking in information retrieval (IR). So far neural representation learning has not been extended to meta-textual information that is readily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Toshitaka Kuwa , Shigehiko Schamoni , Stefan Riezler

Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) methods heavily rely on explicit item IDs to capture user preferences over time. This reliance introduces critical limitations in cold-start scenarios and domain transfer tasks, where unseen items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Wuhan Chen , Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Xin Xia , Feng Jiang , Junhao Wen

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

Embedding models, which learn latent representations of users and items based on user-item interaction patterns, are a key component of recommendation systems. In many applications, contextual constraints need to be applied to refine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Syrine Krichene , Mike Gartrell , Clement Calauzenes

Recommender systems are a class of machine learning algorithms that provide relevant recommendations to a user based on the user's interaction with similar items or based on the content of the item. In settings where the content of the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xavier Thomas

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as promising recommendation systems, offering novel ways to model user preferences through generative approaches. However, many existing methods often rely solely on text semantics or incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Leo Feng , Leonid Sigal , Mohamed Osama Ahmed

Item recommendation task predicts a personalized ranking over a set of items for each individual user. One paradigm is the rating-based methods that concentrate on explicit feedbacks and hence face the difficulties in collecting them.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Guang-Neng Hu , Xin-Yu Dai

Generative recommendation maps each item to a sequence of Semantic IDs (SIDs) and recasts retrieval as autoregressive token generation. In this paradigm the main bottleneck is the tokenizer rather than the Transformer: residual vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wenzhuo Cheng , Menghang Gong , Qixin Guo , Hang Zheng , Zhaobin Yang , Jianguo Lou , Zhengwei Zheng

Recently, word embedding algorithms have been applied to map the entities of recommender systems, such as users and items, to new feature spaces using textual element-context relations among them. Unlike many other domains, this approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Arash Khoeini , Bita Shams , Saman Haratizadeh

Large scale recommender models find most relevant items from huge catalogs, and they play a critical role in modern search and recommendation systems. To model the input space with large-vocab categorical features, a typical recommender…