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We present Expert-Token-Routing, a unified generalist framework that facilitates seamless integration of multiple expert LLMs. Our framework represents expert LLMs as special expert tokens within the vocabulary of a meta LLM. The meta LLM…

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Prior study has shown that pretrained language models (PLM) can boost the performance of text-based recommendation. In contrast to previous works that either use PLM to encode user history as a whole input text, or impose an additional…

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While collaborative filtering delivers predictive accuracy and efficiency, and Large Language Models (LLMs) enable expressive and generalizable reasoning, modern recommendation systems must bring these strengths together. Growing user…

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Sequential recommendation systems aim to predict users' next likely interaction based on their history. However, these systems face data sparsity and cold-start problems. Utilizing data from other domains, known as multi-domain methods, is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zuoli Tang , Zhaoxin Huan , Zihao Li , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Hu , Chilin Fu , Jun Zhou , Lixin Zou , Chenliang Li

We introduce UniToken, an auto-regressive generation model that encodes visual inputs through a combination of discrete and continuous representations, enabling seamless integration of unified visual understanding and image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yang Jiao , Haibo Qiu , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in recommender systems, either improving existing recommendation models or serving as the backbone. However, there exists a large semantic gap between LLMs and recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Bowen Zheng , Yupeng Hou , Hongyu Lu , Yu Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ming Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Generative recommendation autoregressively generates item identifiers to recommend potential items. Existing methods typically adopt a one-to-one mapping strategy, where each item is represented by a single identifier. However, this scheme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Bowen Zheng , Enze Liu , Zhongfu Chen , Zhongrui Ma , Yue Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse tasks has driven the research community to extend their capabilities to molecular applications. However, most molecular LLMs employ adapter-based architectures that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shuhan Guo , Yatao Bian , Ruibing Wang , Nan Yin , Zhen Wang , Quanming Yao

Large-scale models have exhibited remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, including automated medical services and intelligent customer support. However, as most large models are trained on single-modality corpora, enabling them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hao Sun , Yu Song , Jiaqing Liu , Jihong Hu , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

The development of unified multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is fundamentally challenged by the granularity gap between visual understanding and generation: understanding requires high-level semantic abstractions, while image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yan Li , Ning Liao , Xiangyu Zhao , Shaofeng Zhang , Xiaoxing Wang , Yifan Yang , Junchi Yan , Xue Yang

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

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

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for generative recommendation has attracted significant research interest, where item tokenization is a critical step. It involves assigning item identifiers for LLMs to encode user history and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xinyu Lin , Haihan Shi , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Qifan Wang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

The importance of recommender systems is growing rapidly due to the exponential increase in the volume of content generated daily. This surge in content presents unique challenges for designing effective recommender systems. Key among these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jiahao Tian , Jinman Zhao , Zhenkai Wang , Zhicheng Ding

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enhanced text-based recommendation by enriching traditional ID-based methods with semantic generalization capabilities. Text-based methods typically encode item textual information via…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hao Jiang , Guoquan Wang , Donglin Zhou , Sheng Yu , Yang Zeng , Wencong Zeng , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Generative models powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as a unified solution for powering both recommendation and search tasks. A key design choice in these models is how to represent items, traditionally through unique…

Large language models have drastically changed the prospects of AI by introducing technologies for more complex natural language processing. However, current methodologies to train such LLMs require extensive resources including but not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Noel Elias , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Kaan Kale , Sriram Vishwanath , Muriel Medard

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

Generative recommendation systems have gained increasing attention as an innovative approach that directly generates item identifiers for recommendation tasks. Despite their potential, a major challenge is the effective construction of item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Cheng Ling , Lantao Hu , Han Li , Wayne Xin Zhao

This letter proposes UniToCom, a unified token communication paradigm that treats tokens as the fundamental units for both processing and wireless transmission. Specifically, to enable efficient token representations, we propose a…

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