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Generative recommendation (GR) aligns with advances in generative AI by casting next-item prediction as token-level generation rather than score-based ranking. Most GR methods adopt a two-stage pipeline: (i) \textit{item tokenization},…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhenxiang Xu , Jiawei Chen , Sirui Chen , Yong He , Jieyu Yang , Chuan Yuan , Ke Ding , Can Wang

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 recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that formulates the recommendations into a text-to-text generation task, harnessing the vast knowledge of large language models. However, existing studies focus on considering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sunkyung Lee , Seongmin Park , Jonghyo Kim , Mincheol Yoon , Jongwuk Lee

Recommendation systems are essential tools in modern e-commerce, facilitating personalized user experiences by suggesting relevant products. Recent advancements in generative models have demonstrated potential in enhancing recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zida Liang , Changfa Wu , Dunxian Huang , Weiqiang Sun , Ziyang Wang , Yuliang Yan , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang , Bo Zheng , Ke Chen , Silu Zhou , Yu Zhang

This paper introduces SpecInfer, a system that accelerates generative large language model (LLM) serving with tree-based speculative inference and verification. The key idea behind SpecInfer is leveraging small speculative models to predict…

Generative recommendation systems, driven by large language models (LLMs), present an innovative approach to predicting user preferences by modeling items as token sequences and generating recommendations in a generative manner. A critical…

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) combines the generative abilities of large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge sources to provide more accurate and up-to-date responses. Recent RAG advancements focus on improving retrieval…

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

Generative recommendations (GR), which usually include item tokenizers and generative Large Language Models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of scenarios. The majority of existing research efforts primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yejing Wang , Shengyu Zhou , Jinyu Lu , Qidong Liu , Xinhang Li , Wenlin Zhang , Feng Li , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm that predicts target items by autoregressively generating their semantic identifiers (SID). Most GR methods follow a quantization-representation-generation pipeline, first…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ziwei Liu , Yejing Wang , Shengyu Zhou , Xinhang Li , Xiangyu Zhao

ChatGPT has achieved remarkable success in natural language understanding. Considering that recommendation is indeed a conversation between users and the system with items as words, which has similar underlying pattern with ChatGPT, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yabin Zhang , Wenhui Yu , Erhan Zhang , Xu Chen , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Generative recommendation (GR) is an emerging paradigm that represents each item via a tokenizer as an n-digit semantic ID (SID) and predicts the next item by autoregressively generating its SID conditioned on the user's history. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhao Liu , Yichen Zhu , Yiqing Yang , Guoping Tang , Rui Huang , Qiang Luo , Xiao Lv , Ruiming Tang , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Generative Retrieval (GR) is an emerging paradigm in information retrieval that leverages generative models to directly map queries to relevant document identifiers (DocIDs) without the need for traditional query processing or document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tzu-Lin Kuo , Tzu-Wei Chiu , Tzung-Sheng Lin , Sheng-Yang Wu , Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen

Reranking is attracting incremental attention in the recommender systems, which rearranges the input ranking list into the final rank-ing list to better meet user demands. Most existing methods greedily rerank candidates through the rating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yufei Feng , Binbin Hu , Yu Gong , Fei Sun , Qingwen Liu , Wenwu Ou

Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a new paradigm in recommender systems. This approach relies on quantized representations to discretize item features, modeling users' historical interactions as sequences of discrete tokens.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fuwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Dongbo Xi , Jishen Yin , Huan Chen , Peng Yan , Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhao Zhang

Generative Recommendation (GR) has become a promising paradigm for large-scale recommendation systems. However, existing GR models typically perform single-pass decoding without explicit refinement, causing early deviations to accumulate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haibo Xing , Hao Deng , Lingyu Mu , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

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

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…

With the rise of generative paradigms, generative recommendation has garnered increasing attention. The core component is the item code, generally derived by quantizing collaborative or semantic representations to serve as candidate items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Longtao Xiao , Haozhao Wang , Cheng Wang , Linfei Ji , Yifan Wang , Jieming Zhu , Zhenhua Dong , Rui Zhang , Ruixuan Li

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