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Generative Archetype-Grounded Item Representations for Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 11023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior.

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Jun 9

Generative Archetype-Grounded Item Representations for Sequential Recommendation

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior. However, the limited quality of item representations remains a critical bottleneck.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 17

On the Memorization Behavior of LLMs in Generative Recommendation: Observations, Implications, and Training Strategies

arXiv:2606. 17276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising direction for recommender systems.

By Sunwoo Kim, Sunkyung Lee, Clark Mingxuan Ju, Donald Loveland, Bhuvesh Kumar, Kijung Shin, Neil Shah, Liam Collins

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 11

Preserving Item Semantics for Free: Rethinking Token Initialization in LLM-Based Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2608. 07816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative recommendation (GR) leverage large language models (LLMs) as recommender backbones, enabling LLMs to directly generate recommendations conditioned on item-interaction histories.

By Donald Loveland, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Danai Koutra, Neil Shah

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arXiv AI

Jul 29

VaLiDRec: Variable-Length LLM-Aligned Semantic IDs for Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2607. 25209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation commonly represents items using fixed-length semantic identifiers (SIDs) constructed through clustering and quantization.

By Shutong Qiao, Wei Yuan, Tong Chen, Hao Wang, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Hongzhi Yin

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arXiv AI

Jul 29

REPREC: Representation Driven Parameter-Efficient Recommendation System

arXiv:2607. 24845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been applied to sequential recommendation by formulating it as a natural language task.

By Harshini Kavuru, Dwipam Katariya, Giri Iyengar, Pranab Mohanty, Kalanand Mishra, Kalanand Mishra

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

Understanding Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs from a Model-scaling View

arXiv:2509. 25522v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in generative models have allowed the emergence of a promising paradigm for recommender systems (RS), known as Generative Recommendation (GR), which tries to unify rich item semantics and collaborative filtering signals.

By Jingzhe Liu, Liam Collins, Jiliang Tang, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Clark Mingxuan Ju

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1d ago

Learning from Unreachable Rewards: Hint-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2608. 11980v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semantic-ID generative recommenders represent each item as a short sequence of discrete semantic tokens and predict the next item by autoregressively generating this token sequence.

By Kangning Zhang, Haotian Fang, Xukun Luo, Hao Yin, Yang Gao, Peng Yan, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 25

TokenMinds: Pretrained User Tokens and Embeddings for User Understanding in Large Recommender Systems

arXiv:2606. 25147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: User modeling in industrial recommender systems typically produces dense embeddings, which suffer from representational constraints inherent to fixed-dimensional vectors.

By Qingyun Liu, Bo Yan, Yang Liu, Yuji Roh, Ekansh Sharma, Likang Yin, Emma Olowo, Min-hsuan Tsai, Yuxuan Li, Diego Uribe, Saksham Aggarwal, Siqi Wu, Yuan Hao, Vikas Kedigehalli, Lukasz Heldt, Lichan Hong, Li Wei, Xinyang Yi

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Jun 30

CMSL: Constructive Multi-Sequence Learning for Recommendation Systems

arXiv:2606. 28533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequence learning has emerged as the promising paradigm in recommendation systems, surpassing traditional Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRM) by capturing the temporal nuances of user behavior.

By Zikun Cui, Renzhi Wu, Junjie Yang, Li Sheng, Jijie Wei, Linfeng Liu, Tai Guo, Tao Jia, Xiaodong Wang, Hong Li, Li Yu, Sri Reddy, Hong Yan

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arXiv AI

6d ago

HCGRec: Hint-Conditioned Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs

arXiv:2608. 11980v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic-ID generative recommenders represent each item as a short sequence of discrete semantic tokens and predict the next item by autoregressively generating this token sequence.

By Kangning Zhang, Haotian Fang, Xukun Luo, Hao Yin, Yang Gao, Peng Yan, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu

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Aug 3

Empowering Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Hybrid Tokenization and Serial-Parallel Decoding

arXiv:2607. 28659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to model users' dynamic interest transitions and sequential patterns across multiple domains.

By Yuxuan Hu, Yuhao Wang, Tianbo Huang, Chao Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Lihua Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

GFlowGR: Fine-tuning Generative Recommendation Frameworks with Generative Flow Networks

arXiv:2506. 16114v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative recommendations (GR), which usually include item tokenizers and generative Large Language Models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of scenarios.

By Yejing Wang, Shengyu Zhou, Jinyu Lu, Qidong Liu, Xinhang Li, Wenlin Zhang, Feng Li, Pengjie Wang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiangyu Zhao

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