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There is a growing interest in utilizing large-scale language models (LLMs) to advance next-generation Recommender Systems (RecSys), driven by their outstanding language understanding and in-context learning capabilities. In this scenario,…

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Recently, generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm, attracting significant research attention. The basic framework involves an item tokenizer, which represents each item as a sequence of codes serving as its identifier,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Bowen Zheng , Hongyu Lu , Yu Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Generative recommendation (GeneRec) has introduced a new paradigm that represents items as discrete semantic tokens and predicts items in a generative manner. Despite its strong performance across multiple recommendation tasks, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zezhong Fan , Ziheng Chen , Luyi Ma , Jin Huang , Lalitesh Morishetti , Kaushiki Nag , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

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 recommendation has recently emerged as a transformative paradigm that directly generates target items, surpassing traditional cascaded approaches. It typically involves two components: a tokenizer that learns item identifiers and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jialei Li , Yang Zhang , Yimeng Bai , Shuai Zhu , Ziqi Xue , Xiaoyan Zhao , Dingxian Wang , Frank Yang , Andrew Rabinovich , Xiangnan He

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 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…

Semantic ID-based generative recommendation represents items as sequences of discrete tokens, but it inherently faces a trade-off between representational expressiveness and computational efficiency. Residual Quantization (RQ)-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ming Xia , Zhiqin Zhou , Guoxin Ma , Dongmin Huang

Sequential recommendation is a task to capture hidden user preferences from historical user item interaction data and recommend next items for the user. Significant progress has been made in this domain by leveraging classification based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Panfeng Cao , Pietro Lio

In web environments, user preferences are often refined progressively as users move from browsing broad categories to exploring specific items. However, existing generative recommenders overlook this natural refinement process. Generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tianxin Wei , Xuying Ning , Xuxing Chen , Ruizhong Qiu , Yupeng Hou , Yan Xie , Shuang Yang , Zhigang Hua , Jingrui He

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-based models such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

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…

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