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Generative recommendation aims to learn the underlying generative process over the entire item set to produce recommendations for users. Although it leverages non-linear probabilistic models to surpass the limited modeling capacity of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Yu Wang , Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin

In recent years, substantial research efforts have been devoted to enhancing sequential recommender systems by integrating abundant side information with ID-based collaborative information. This study specifically focuses on leveraging the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm that replaces fragmented, scenario-specific architectures with unified Transformer-based models, exhibiting scaling-law behavior where recommendation quality improves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Huichao Chai , Zhixin Wu , Xuemiao Li , Shiqing Fan , Hengfeng Wang , Maojun Peng , Lu Xu , Yaoyuan Wang , Yibo Jin , Wei Guo , Yongxiang Feng

List-wise reranking arranges a request-specific pool of candidate items into an ordered slate that maximizes user satisfaction. Existing generative rerankers fall into two paradigms: Autoregressive (AR) rerankers construct the slate left to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Pengyue Jia , Hailan Yang , Shuchang Liu , Xiaobei Wang , Wanyu Wang , Xiang Li , Yongqi Liu , Kaiqiao Zhan , Kun Gai , Xiangyu Zhao

Modern commercial platforms typically offer both search and recommendation functionalities to serve diverse user needs, making joint modeling of these tasks an appealing direction. While prior work has shown that integrating search and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xiao Zhang , Xiaoxue Zang , Kai Zheng , Yang Song , Enyun Yu

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has renewed interest in whether recommender systems can achieve similar scaling benefits. Conventional recommenders, dominated by massive embedding tables, tend to plateau as embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xiaoyu Kong , Leheng Sheng , Junfei Tan , Yuxin Chen , Jiancan Wu , An Zhang , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He

Slate recommendation, which presents users with a ranked item list in a single display, is ubiquitous across mainstream online platforms. Recent advances in generative models have shown significant potential for this task via autoregressive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yunsheng Pang , Zijian Liu , Yudong Li , Shaojie Zhu , Zijian Luo , Chenyun Yu , Sikai Wu , Shichen Shen , Cong Xu , Bin Wang , Kai Jiang , Hongyong Yu , Chengxiang Zhuo , Zang Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for modeling graph-structured data and have been widely used in recommender systems, such as for capturing complex user-item and item-item relations. However, most industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rui Xue , Shichao Zhu , Liang Qin , Tianfu Wu

Sequential recommendation (SR) is traditionally formulated as next-item prediction over a chronological sequence of interacted items. Although recent generative recommendation (GR) methods introduce new machinery, such as semantic IDs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yingyi Zhang , Junyi Li , Yejing Wang , Wenlin Zhang , Xiaowei Qian , Sheng Zhang , Yue Feng , Yichao Wang , Yong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xianneng Li

Modern search systems play a crucial role in facilitating information acquisition. Traditional search engines typically rely on a cascaded architecture, where results are retrieved through recall, pre-ranking, and ranking stages. The…

Personalized models have demonstrated remarkable success in understanding and generating concepts provided by users. However, existing methods use separate concept tokens for understanding and generation, treating these tasks in isolation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ruichuan An , Sihan Yang , Renrui Zhang , Zijun Shen , Ming Lu , Gaole Dai , Hao Liang , Ziyu Guo , Shilin Yan , Yulin Luo , Bocheng Zou , Chaoqun Yang , Wentao Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong potential for generative recommendation by leveraging rich semantic knowledge. However, existing LLM-based recommender systems struggle to effectively incorporate collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Fake Lin , Binbin Hu , Zhi Zheng , Xi Zhu , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Tong Xu

Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same idea also applies naturally to sequential decision-making,…

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

In recent years, significant progress has been made in both image generation and generated image detection. Despite their rapid, yet largely independent, development, these two fields have evolved distinct architectural paradigms: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yanran Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yifei Li , Bingyao Yu , Yu Zheng , Lei Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie 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…

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

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

Generative recommendation (GR) is an emerging paradigm that tokenizes items into discrete tokens and learns to autoregressively generate the next tokens as predictions. While this token-generation paradigm is expected to surpass traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yijie Ding , Jiacheng Li , Julian McAuley , Yupeng Hou

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yidan Wang , Zhaochun Ren , Weiwei Sun , Jiyuan Yang , Zhixiang Liang , Xin Chen , Ruobing Xie , Su Yan , Xu Zhang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Xin Xin