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Generative recommendation with Semantic IDs (SIDs) has emerged as a promising paradigm, yet existing methods apply a fixed inference strategy, either fast direct generation or slow chain-of-thought reasoning, uniformly across all user…

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Semantic identifiers (IDs) have proven effective in adapting large language models for generative recommendation and retrieval. However, existing methods often suffer from semantic ID conflicts, where semantically similar documents (or…

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In cold-start scenarios, the scarcity of collaborative signals for new items exacerbates the Matthew effect, which undermines platform diversity and remains a persistent challenge in real-world recommender systems. Existing methods…

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Structured representation of product information is a major bottleneck for the efficiency of e-commerce platforms, especially in second-hand ecommerce platforms. Currently, most product information are organized based on manually curated…

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The exponential growth of online content has posed significant challenges to ID-based models in industrial recommendation systems, ranging from extremely high cardinality and dynamically growing ID space, to highly skewed engagement…

Generative Recommender Systems using semantic ids, such as TIGER (Rajput et al., 2023), have emerged as a widely adopted competitive paradigm in sequential recommendation. However, existing architectures are designed solely for semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yanchen Jiang , Zhe Feng , Christopher P. Mah , Aranyak Mehta , Di Wang

Generative recommendation systems, driven by large language models (LLMs), present an innovative approach to predicting user preferences by modeling items as token sequences and generating recommendations in a generative manner. A critical…

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

With the rapid development of recommender systems, there is increasing side information that can be employed to improve the recommendation performance. Specially, we focus on the utilization of the associated \emph{textual data} of items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Lanling Xu , Zhen Tian , Bingqian Li , Junjie Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Mingchen Cai , Wayne Xin Zhao

Conventional Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) typically assign unique hash IDs (HID) to construct item embeddings, which mainly capture collaborative signals from historical user-item interactions. However, such embeddings are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ziwei Liu , Yejing Wang , Wanyu Wang , Wang Zejian , Qidong Liu , Zijian Zhang , Chong Chen , Wei Huang , Xiangyu Zhao

Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a transformative paradigm with its end-to-end generation advantages. However, existing GR methods primarily focus on direct Semantic ID (SID) generation from interaction sequences, failing to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zihao Guo , Jian Wang , Ruxin Zhou , Youhua Liu , Jiawei Guo , Jun Zhao , Xiaoxiao Xu , Yongqi Liu , Kaiqiao Zhan

Sequential recommendation (SR) models often capture user preferences based on the historically interacted item IDs, which usually obtain sub-optimal performance when the interaction history is limited. Content-based sequential…

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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…

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Semantic ID learning is a key interface in Generative Recommendation (GR) models, mapping items to discrete identifiers grounded in side information, most commonly via a pretrained text encoder. However, these text encoders are primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Shutong Qiao , Wei Yuan , Tong Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Generative recommendation has emerged as a scalable alternative to traditional retrieve-and-rank pipelines by operating in a compact token space. However, existing methods mainly rely on discrete code-level supervision, which leads to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ziqi Xue , Dingxian Wang , Yimeng Bai , Shuai Zhu , Jialei Li , Xiaoyan Zhao , Frank Yang , Andrew Rabinovich , Yang Zhang , Pablo N. Mendes

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

Sequential recommendation plays a critical role in modern online platforms such as e-commerce, advertising, and content streaming, where accurately predicting users' next interactions is essential for personalization. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haofeng Huang , Ling Gai

Implicit feedback, such as user clicks, serves as the primary data source for modern recommender systems. However, click interactions inherently contain substantial noise, including accidental clicks, clickbait-induced interactions, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xikai Yang , Yang Wang , Yilin Li , Sebastian Sun

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.…

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