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In web environments, user preferences are often refined progressively as users move from browsing broad categories to exploring specific items. However, existing generative recommenders overlook this natural refinement process. Generative…

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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

Semantic ID (SID)-based recommendation is a promising paradigm for scaling sequential recommender systems, but existing methods largely follow a semantic-centric pipeline: item embeddings are learned from foundation models and discretized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Liang , Zhongjin Zhang , Yuxuan Zhu , Kerui Zhang , Zhiluohan Guo , Wenhang Zhou , Zonqi Yang , Kangle Wu , Yabo Ni , Anxiang Zeng , Cong Fu , Jianxin Wang , Jiazhi Xia

Recently, generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm, attracting significant research attention. The basic framework involves an item tokenizer, which represents each item as a sequence of codes serving as its identifier,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Bowen Zheng , Hongyu Lu , Yu Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Generative recommendation models often struggle with two key challenges: (1) the superficial integration of collaborative signals, and (2) the decoupled fusion of multimodal features. These limitations hinder the creation of a truly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yuzhen Lin , Hongyi Chen , Xuanjing Chen , Shaowen Wang , Ivonne Xu , Dongming Jiang

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

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item a user is likely to prefer based on their sequential interaction history. Recently, text-based sequential recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that uses pre-trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hyunsoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Jongwuk Lee

Generative recommendation has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm that unifies retrieval and generation, representing items as discrete semantic tokens and enabling flexible sequence modeling with autoregressive models. Despite its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zheng Hui , Xiaokai Wei , Reza Shirkavand , Chen Wang , Weizhi Zhang , Alejandro Peláez , Michelle Gong

Generative Recommendation (GR) reframes retrieval and ranking as autoregressive decoding over Semantic IDs (SIDs), unifying the multi-stage pipeline into a single model. Yet a fundamental expressive gap persists: discriminative models score…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ziliang Wang , Gaoyun Lin , Xuesi Wang , Shaoqiang Liang , Yili Huang , Weijie Bian , Li Zhang , Mingchen Cai , Jian Dong , Guanxing 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

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-based models such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

Recommender systems increasingly incorporate textual reviews to enrich user and item representations. However, most review-aware models remain optimized for rating prediction rather than ranking quality. This misalignment limits their…

Generative recommendation is emerging as a powerful paradigm that directly generates item predictions, moving beyond traditional matching-based approaches. However, current methods face two key challenges: token-item misalignment, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chang Liu , Yimeng Bai , Xiaoyan Zhao , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Wenge Rong

Generative recommendation is emerging as a transformative paradigm by directly generating recommended items, rather than relying on matching. Building such a system typically involves two key components: (1) optimizing the tokenizer to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yimeng Bai , Chang Liu , Yang Zhang , Dingxian Wang , Frank Yang , Andrew Rabinovich , Wenge Rong , Fuli Feng

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…

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

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

The retrieval phase is a vital component in recommendation systems, requiring the model to be effective and efficient. Recently, generative retrieval has become an emerging paradigm for document retrieval, showing notable performance. These…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zihua Si , Zhongxiang Sun , Jiale Chen , Guozhang Chen , Xiaoxue Zang , Kai Zheng , Yang Song , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu , Kun Gai

Generative Recommendation (GR) has become a promising end-to-end approach with high FLOPS utilization for resource-efficient recommendation. Despite the effectiveness, we show that current GR models suffer from a critical \textbf{bias…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Xinyu Lin , Pengyuan Liu , Wenjie Wang , Yicheng Hu , Chen Xu , Fuli Feng , Qifan Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Generative recommendation (GR) with semantic IDs (SIDs) has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional recommendation approaches due to its performance gains, capitalization on semantic information provided through language model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kulin Shah , Bhuvesh Kumar , Neil Shah , Liam Collins