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Federated recommender systems enable collaborative model training while keeping user interaction data local and sharing only essential model parameters, thereby mitigating privacy risks. However, existing methods overlook a critical issue,…

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Generative Recommendation (GR) reformulates recommendation as a next-token generation problem and has shown promise in industrial applications. However, extending GR to industrial advertising is non-trivial because the system must optimize…

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

In recommendation systems, the traditional multi-stage paradigm, which includes retrieval and ranking, often suffers from information loss between stages and diminishes performance. Recent advances in generative models, inspired by natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Luankang Zhang , Kenan Song , Yi Quan Lee , Wei Guo , Hao Wang , Yawen Li , Huifeng Guo , Yong Liu , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Large language models have recently shown promise for multimodal recommendation, particularly with text and image inputs. Yet real-world recommendation signals extend far beyond these modalities. To reflect this, we formalize recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zijie Lei , Tao Feng , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Guanyu Lin , Shuang Yang , Ge Liu , Jiaxuan You

Generative retrieval-based recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm aiming at directly generating the identifiers of the target candidates. However, in large-scale recommendation systems, this approach becomes increasingly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Penglong Zhai , Yifang Yuan , Fanyi Di , Jie Li , Yue Liu , Chen Li , Jie Huang , Sicong Wang , Yao Xu , Xin Li

Visual generative and understanding models typically rely on distinct tokenizers to process images, presenting a key challenge for unifying them within a single framework. Recent studies attempt to address this by connecting the training of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Junfeng Wu , Jihan Yang , Xin Yu , Zehuan Yuan , Bingyue Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

Effective recommendation is crucial for large-scale online platforms. Traditional recommendation systems primarily rely on ID tokens to uniquely identify items, which can effectively capture specific item relationships but suffer from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Guanyu Lin , Zhigang Hua , Tao Feng , Shuang Yang , Bo Long , Jiaxuan You

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

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Wei Chen , Xingyu Guo , Shuang Li , Fuwei Zhang , Meng Yuan , Jing Fan , Zhao Zhang , Deqing Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang

Generative recommendation (GR) models tokenize each action into a few discrete tokens (called semantic IDs) and autoregressively generate the next tokens as predictions, showing advantages such as memory efficiency, scalability, and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Qiyong Zhong , Jiajie Su , Yunshan Ma , Julian McAuley , Yupeng Hou

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

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

Traditional recommendation systems suffer from inconsistency in multi-stage optimization objectives. Generative Recommendation (GR) mitigates them through an end-to-end framework; however, existing methods still rely on matching mechanisms…

The dominant retrieve-then-rank pipeline in large-scale recommender systems suffers from mis-calibration and engineering overhead due to its architectural split and differing optimization objectives. While recent generative sequence models…

Deep learning-based code generation has completely transformed the way developers write programs today. Existing approaches to code generation have focused either on the Sequence-to-Sequence paradigm, which generates target code as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Liangying Shao , Yanfu Yan , Denys Poshyvanyk , Jinsong Su

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 based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the traditional ranking-based recommendation style into a text-to-text generation paradigm. However, in contrast to standard NLP tasks that inherently operate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Juntao Tan , Shuyuan Xu , Wenyue Hua , Yingqiang Ge , Zelong Li , Yongfeng Zhang

Generative recommendation reformulates recommendation as next-token prediction over discrete semantic identifiers (IDs). A fundamental yet unexplored design choice is that existing methods employ fixed-length tokenization for all items,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhao Wang , Bowen Wu , Wei Zhang

Recommender systems have long been built upon the modeling of interactions between users and items, while recent studies have sought to broaden this paradigm by generalizing to new users and items, incorporating diverse information sources,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chanyoung Chung , Kyeongryul Lee , Sunbin Park , Joyce Jiyoung Whang