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In the Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction scenario, user's sequential behaviors are well utilized to capture the user interest in the recent literature. However, despite being extensively studied, these sequential methods still suffer from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Kai Zhang , Hao Qian , Qing Cui , Qi Liu , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou , Jianhui Ma , Enhong Chen

While generative recommendations (GR) possess strong sequential reasoning capabilities, they face significant challenges when processing extremely long user behavior sequences: the high computational cost forces practical sequence lengths…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yu Zhou , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Ji Liu , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

With the dynamic evolution of user interests and the increasing multimodal demands in internet applications, personalized content generation strategies based on static interest preferences struggle to meet practical application…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Tian Miao

Generative Recommendation (GR) has excelled by framing recommendation as next-token prediction. This paradigm relies on Semantic IDs (SIDs) to tokenize large-scale items into discrete sequences. Existing GR approaches predominantly generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jie Jiang , Xinxun Zhang , Enming Zhang , Yuling Xiong , Jun Zhang , Jingwen Wang , Huan Yu , Yuxiang Wang , Hao Wang , Xiao Yan , Jiawei Jiang

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict future user-item interactions based on historical interactions. While many SR approaches concentrate on user IDs and item IDs, the human perception of the world through multi-modal signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Yuanqi He , Junchen Fu , Xiangyan Liu , Qi Guo

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

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

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has long been dominated by discriminative paradigms that optimize local decision boundaries within candidate-specific subspaces. However, these models often fail to capture the global joint distribution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chen Gao , Zixin Zhao , Lv Shao , Tong Liu

Generative recommendation systems have achieved significant advances by leveraging semantic IDs to represent items. However, existing approaches that tokenize each modality independently face two critical limitations: (1) redundancy across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Haven Kim , Yupeng Hou , Julian McAuley

Sequential Recommendation (SR) plays a pivotal role in recommender systems by tailoring recommendations to user preferences based on their non-stationary historical interactions. Achieving high-quality performance in SR requires attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Wuchao Li , Rui Huang , Haijun Zhao , Chi Liu , Kai Zheng , Qi Liu , Na Mou , Guorui Zhou , Defu Lian , Yang Song , Wentian Bao , Enyun Yu , Wenwu Ou

Generative retrieval is an emerging approach in information retrieval that generates identifiers (IDs) of target data based on a query, providing an efficient alternative to traditional embedding-based retrieval methods. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Sungyeon Kim , Xinliang Zhu , Xiaofan Lin , Muhammet Bastan , Douglas Gray , Suha Kwak

Precise user modeling is critical for online personalized recommendation services. Generally, users' interests are diverse and are not limited to a single aspect, which is particularly evident when their behaviors are observed for a longer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jianxun Lian , Iyad Batal , Zheng Liu , Akshay Soni , Eun Yong Kang , Yajun Wang , Xing Xie

While generative modeling has become prevalent across numerous research fields, its integration into the realm of image retrieval remains largely unexplored and underjustified. In this paper, we present a novel methodology, reframing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yidan Zhang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Yujing Wang , Qi Chen , Xing Xie , Hao Sun , Weiwei Deng , Qi Zhang , Fan Yang , Mao Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jingdong Wang , Baining Guo

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…

Industrial recommender systems usually consist of the matching stage and the ranking stage, in order to handle the billion-scale of users and items. The matching stage retrieves candidate items relevant to user interests, while the ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Chao Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Mengmeng Wu , Yuchi Xu , Pipei Huang , Huan Zhao , Guoliang Kang , Qiwei Chen , Wei Li , Dik Lun Lee

Modeling ultra-long user sequences involves a difficult trade-off between efficiency and effectiveness. While current paradigms rely on either item-specific search or item-agnostic compression, we propose UxSID, a framework exploring a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongwei Zhang , Qiqiang Zhong , Jiangxia Cao , Yiyang Lv , Huanjie Wang , Liwei Guan , Jing Yao , Yiyu Wang , Junfeng Shu , Zhaojie Liu , Han Li

Industrial-scale recommender systems rely on a cascade pipeline in which the retrieval stage must return a high-recall candidate set from billions of items under tight latency. Existing solutions either (i) suffer from limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yijia Sun , Shanshan Huang , Zhiyuan Guan , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Learning effective feature interactions is central to modern recommender systems, yet remains challenging in industrial settings due to sparse multi-field inputs and ultra-long user behavior sequences. While recent scaling efforts have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Fangye Wang , Guowei Yang , Xiaojiang Zhou , Song Yang , Pengjie Wang

Multimodal recommender systems leverage diverse data sources, such as user interactions, content features, and contextual information, to address challenges like cold-start and data sparsity. However, existing methods often suffer from one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

In this work, we propose a Unified framework of Sequential Search and Recommendation (UnifiedSSR) for joint learning of user behavior history in both search and recommendation scenarios. Specifically, we consider user-interacted products in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiayi Xie , Shang Liu , Gao Cong , Zhenzhong Chen