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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

Modern recommender systems perform large-scale retrieval by first embedding queries and item candidates in the same unified space, followed by approximate nearest neighbor search to select top candidates given a query embedding. In this…

Generative Retrieval (GR) offers a promising paradigm for recommendation through next-token prediction (NTP). However, scaling it to large-scale industrial systems introduces three challenges: (i) within a single request, the identical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yanyan Zou , Junbo Qi , Lunsong Huang , Yu Li , Kewei Xu , Jiabao Gao , Binglei Zhao , Xuanhua Yang , Sulong Xu , Shengjie Li

Generative recommendation represents each item as a semantic ID, i.e., a sequence of discrete tokens, and generates the next item through autoregressive decoding. While effective, existing autoregressive models face two intrinsic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Teng Shi , Chenglei Shen , Weijie Yu , Shen Nie , Chongxuan Li , Xiao Zhang , Ming He , Yan Han , Jun Xu

In a multi-stage recommendation system, reranking plays a crucial role in modeling intra-list correlations among items. A key challenge lies in exploring optimal sequences within the combinatorial space of permutations. Recent research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhijie Lin , Zhuofeng Li , Chenglei Dai , Wentian Bao , Shuai Lin , Enyun Yu , Haoxiang Zhang , Liang Zhao

A core objective in recommender systems is to accurately model the distribution of user preferences over items to enable personalized recommendations. Recently, driven by the strong generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuanbo Zhao , Ruochen Liu , Senzhang Wang , Jun Yin , Yuxin Dong , Huan Gong , Hao Chen , Shirui Pan , Chengqi Zhang

Generative Recommendation (GR) has demonstrated remarkable performance in next-token prediction paradigms, which relies on Semantic IDs (SIDs) to compress trillion-scale data into learnable vocabulary sequences. However, existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yangchen Zeng , Jinze Wang

Generative Sequential Recommendation (GSR) has emerged as a promising paradigm, reframing recommendation as an autoregressive sequence generation task over discrete Semantic IDs (SIDs), typically derived via codebook-based quantization.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Dengzhao Fang , Jingtong Gao , Yu Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Yi Chang

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 retrieval (GR) has emerged as a transformative paradigm in search and recommender systems, leveraging numeric-based identifier representations to enhance efficiency and generalization. Notably, methods like TIGER employing…

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is crucial for improving recommendation accuracy and generalization, yet traditional methods are often hindered by the reliance on shared user/item IDs, which are unavailable in most real-world scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Peiyu Hu , Wayne Lu , Jia Wang

Leveraging the vast open-world knowledge and understanding capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop general-purpose, semantically-aware recommender systems has emerged as a pivotal research direction in generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhiyang Zhang , Junda She , Kuo Cai , Bo Chen , Shiyao Wang , Xinchen Luo , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Generative recommendation maps each item to a sequence of Semantic IDs (SIDs) and recasts retrieval as autoregressive token generation. In this paradigm the main bottleneck is the tokenizer rather than the Transformer: residual vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wenzhuo Cheng , Menghang Gong , Qixin Guo , Hang Zheng , Zhaobin Yang , Jianguo Lou , Zhengwei Zheng

Group Recommendation (GR), which aims to recommend items to groups of users, has become a promising and practical direction for recommendation systems. This paper points out two issues of the state-of-the-art GR models. (1) The pre-defined…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yue Liu , Shihao Zhu , Tianyuan Yang , Jian Ma , Wenliang Zhong

Semantic ID-based recommendation models tokenize each item into a small number of discrete tokens that preserve specific semantics, leading to better performance, scalability, and memory efficiency. While recent models adopt a generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yupeng Hou , Jiacheng Li , Ashley Shin , Jinsung Jeon , Abhishek Santhanam , Wei Shao , Kaveh Hassani , Ning Yao , Julian McAuley

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

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…

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shifted in recommendation systems from the discriminative paradigm to the LLM-based generative paradigm, where the recommender autoregressively generates sequences of semantic identifiers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiawei Feng , Xiaoyu Kong , Leheng Sheng , Bin Wu , Chao Yi , Feifang Yang , Xiang-Rong Sheng , Han Zhu , Xiang Wang , Jiancan Wu , Xiangnan He

Generative Recommendation (GR) has recently transitioned from atomic item-indexing to Semantic ID (SID)-based frameworks to capture intrinsic item relationships and enhance generalization. However, the adoption of high-granularity SIDs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tianyu Zhan , Kairui Fu , Chengfei Lv , Zheqi Lv , Shengyu Zhang

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…