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Modern recommender systems perform large-scale retrieval by first embedding queries and item candidates in the same unified space, followed by approximate nearest neighbor search to select top candidates given a query embedding. In this…

A core objective in recommender systems is to accurately model the distribution of user preferences over items to enable personalized recommendations. Recently, driven by the strong generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs),…

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Recommender systems typically retrieve items from an item corpus for personalized recommendations. However, such a retrieval-based recommender paradigm faces two limitations: 1) the human-generated items in the corpus might fail to satisfy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Wenjie Wang , Xinyu Lin , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , 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…

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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

Generative recommendation (GR) has shown strong potential for sequential recommendation in an end-to-end generation paradigm. However, existing GR models suffer from severe cold-start collapse: their recommendation accuracy on cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Chenglei Shen , Teng Shi , Weijie Yu , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

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

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

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in Multi-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation (MTCDR), which aims to enhance recommendation performance across multiple domains simultaneously. Existing MTCDR methods primarily rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jinqiu Jin , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

Recent work has explored generative recommender systems as an alternative to traditional ID-based models, reframing item recommendation as a sequence generation task over discrete item tokens. While promising, such methods often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Simon Lepage , Jeremie Mary , David Picard

Autoregressive Model (AR) has shown remarkable success in conditional image generation. However, these approaches for multiple reference generation struggle with decoupling different reference identities. In this work, we propose the…

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Generative models have emerged as a promising utility to enhance recommender systems. It is essential to model both item content and user-item collaborative interactions in a unified generative framework for better recommendation. Although…

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Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm by formulating item recommendation as a sequence-to-sequence generation task over item identifiers. Recent studies have incorporated multimodal signals to provide richer…

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Utilizing powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) for generative recommendation has attracted much attention. Nevertheless, a crucial challenge is transforming recommendation data into the language space of LLMs through effective item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wenjie Wang , Honghui Bao , Xinyu Lin , Jizhi Zhang , Yongqi Li , Fuli Feng , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Sequential recommendation is often considered as a generative task, i.e., training a sequential encoder to generate the next item of a user's interests based on her historical interacted items. Despite their prevalence, these methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Caiming Xiong

Integrating product catalogs and user behavior into LLMs can enhance recommendations with broad world knowledge, but the scale of real-world item catalogs, often containing millions of discrete item identifiers (Item IDs), poses a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Anushya Subbiah , Vikram Aggarwal , James Pine , Steffen Rendle , Krishna Sayana , Kun Su

Generative recommendation commonly adopts a two-stage pipeline in which a learnable tokenizer maps items to discrete token sequences (i.e. identifiers) and an autoregressive generative recommender model (GRM) performs prediction based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuebo Feng , Jiahao Liu , Mingzhe Han , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Tun Lu , Ning Gu

Generative Recommendation has revolutionized recommender systems by reformulating retrieval as a sequence generation task over discrete item identifiers. Despite the progress, existing approaches typically rely on static, decoupled…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Huanjie Wang , Xinchen Luo , Honghui Bao , Zhang Zixing , Lejian Ren , Yunfan Wu , Hongwei Zhang , Liwei Guan , Guang Chen

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…

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