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In recent years, large language models (LLM) have emerged as powerful tools for diverse natural language processing tasks. However, their potential for recommender systems under the generative recommendation paradigm remains relatively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jianchao Ji , Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Wenyue Hua , Yingqiang Ge , Juntao Tan , Yongfeng Zhang

Contemporary generative recommendation systems face significant challenges in handling multimodal data, eliminating algorithmic biases, and providing transparent decision-making processes. This paper introduces an enhanced generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bo Ma , Hang Li , ZeHua Hu , XiaoFan Gui , LuYao Liu , Simon Lau

Pioneering efforts have verified the effectiveness of the diffusion models in exploring the informative uncertainty for recommendation. Considering the difference between recommendation and image synthesis tasks, existing methods have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Haokai Ma , Ruobing Xie , Lei Meng , Xin Chen , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Zhanhui Kang

Latent reasoning has emerged as a promising paradigm for sequential recommendation, enabling models to capture complex user intent through multi-step deliberation. Yet existing approaches often rely on deterministic latent chains that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jie Jiang , Yang Wu , Qian Li , Yuling Xiong , Yihang Su , Junbang Huo , Longfei Lu , Jun Zhang , Huan Yu

Modern recommender systems must adapt to dynamic, need-specific objectives for diverse recommendation scenarios, yet most traditional recommenders are optimized for a single static target and struggle to reconfigure behavior on demand.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yijun Pan , Weikang Qiu , Qiyao Ma , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Rex Ying

Multi-objective re-ranking has become a critical component of modern multi-stage recommender systems, as it tasked to balance multiple conflicting objectives such as accuracy, diversity, and fairness. Existing multi-objective re-ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wei Zhou , Wuyang Li , Junkai Ji , Xueliang Li , Wenjing Hong , Zexuan Zhu , Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He

Session-based recommendation aims to predict user the next action based on historical behaviors in an anonymous session. For better recommendations, it is vital to capture user preferences as well as their dynamics. Besides, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Xiaoyong Huai , Zhiqi Fang , Songlin Hu

In the RAG paradigm, the information retrieval module provides context for generators by retrieving and ranking multiple documents to support the aggregation of evidence. However, existing ranking models are primarily optimized for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yongqi Fan , Yuxiang Chu , Zhentao Xia , Xiaoyang Chen , Jie Liu , Haijin Liang , Jin Ma , Ben He , Yingfei Sun , Dezhi Ye , Tong Ruan

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone for knowledge-intensive tasks. However, the efficacy of RAG is often bottlenecked by the ``one-size-fits-all'' retrieval paradigm, as different queries exhibit distinct…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tong Zhao , Yutao Zhu , Yucheng Tian , Zhicheng Dou

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are often bottlenecked by their reranking modules, which typically score passages independently and select a fixed Top-K size. This approach struggles with complex multi-hop queries that require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Siyuan Meng , Junming Liu , Yirong Chen , Song Mao , Pinlong Cai , Guohang Yan , Botian Shi , Ding Wang

Existing studies have optimized retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) across various sub-tasks, such as query understanding and retrieval refinement, but integrating these optimizations into a unified framework remains challenging. To tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yutao Zhu , Jiajie Jin , Hongjin Qian , Zheng Liu , Zhicheng Dou , Ji-Rong Wen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been integrated into recommendation systems to enhance user behavior comprehension. The Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technique is further incorporated into these systems to retrieve more relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jian Xu , Sichun Luo , Xiangyu Chen , Haoming Huang , Hanxu Hou , Linqi Song

Sequential recommendation methods can capture dynamic user preferences from user historical interactions to achieve better performance. However, most existing methods only use past information extracted from user historical interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiafeng Xia , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Li Shang , Ning Gu

Recommender models aimed at mining users' behavioral patterns have raised great attention as one of the essential applications in daily life. Recent work on graph neural networks (GNNs) or debiasing methods has attained remarkable gains.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xinfeng Wang , Fumiyo Fukumoto , Jin Cui , Yoshimi Suzuki , Jiyi Li , Dongjin Yu

Generative models have recently gained attention in recommendation systems by directly predicting item identifiers from user interaction sequences. However, existing methods suffer from significant information loss due to the separation of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yuhao Yang , Zhi Ji , Zhaopeng Li , Yi Li , Zhonglin Mo , Yue Ding , Kai Chen , Zijian Zhang , Jie Li , Shuanglong Li , Lin Liu

While the classic Prospect Theory has highlighted the reference-dependent and comparative nature of consumers' product evaluation processes, few models have successfully integrated this theoretical hypothesis into data-driven preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Liang Zhang , Guannan Liu , Junjie Wu , Yong Tan

Process discovery aims to automatically derive process models from historical execution data (event logs). While various process discovery algorithms have been proposed in the last 25 years, there is no consensus on a dominating discovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Tsung-Hao Huang , Tarek Junied , Marco Pegoraro , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

With the development of the online education system, personalized education recommendation has played an essential role. In this paper, we focus on developing path recommendation systems that aim to generating and recommending an entire…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Xianyu Chen , Jian Shen , Wei Xia , Jiarui Jin , Yakun Song , Weinan Zhang , Weiwen Liu , Menghui Zhu , Ruiming Tang , Kai Dong , Dingyin Xia , Yong Yu

Generative recommendation has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for sequential recommendation. It formulates the task as an autoregressive generation process, predicting tokens of the next item conditioned on user interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuanqing Yu , Yifan Wang , Weizhi Ma , Zhiqiang Guo , Min Zhang

Generative information retrieval, encompassing two major tasks of Generative Document Retrieval (GDR) and Grounded Answer Generation (GAR), has gained significant attention in the area of information retrieval and natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xiaoxi Li , Yujia Zhou , Zhicheng Dou