arXiv:2607. 23762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional recommenders capture users' preferences by optimizing observed user-item relations, whereas continuous generative recommendation additionally learns the trajectory of synthesizing a target item.
arXiv:2607. 10541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommender systems typically infer user preferences through single-pass encoding of interaction histories without iterative refinement, relying on increasingly deep architectures to capture complex patterns.
arXiv:2606. 11023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior.
arXiv:2606. 12245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cold-start item recommendation remains a persistent challenge in real-world systems due to the absence of interaction histories.
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.
arXiv:2608.21243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation predicts the next item from a user's interaction history, but not every interaction is equally informative. Real logs combi...
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.
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.
arXiv:2607. 25209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation commonly represents items using fixed-length semantic identifiers (SIDs) constructed through clustering and quantization.
EPIC: Explicit Posterior Item Conditioning for Semantic ID Diffusion Recommendation proposes a method that adds explicit item-level competition into the denoising process of Semantic ID (SID) generative recommendation. The approach builds a personalized posterior over feasible candidate items based on the current generation context and the user's recent interactions, then projects this distribution back to unresolved SID positions to guide subsequent token decisions. Experiments on four Amazon benchmarks show consistent improvements over strong baselines, with diagnostic analyses indicating that the gains stem from personalized transition evidence that preserves promising item hypotheses during denoising.
The paper introduces Evo-Rec, a three‑stage framework that improves generative recommendation by learning better reasoning traces for Semantic ID (SID) generation. It first aligns SIDs with textual and behavioral contexts, then selects candidate reasoning traces that improve ground‑truth item prediction, and finally refines the reasoning policy via reinforcement learning with catalog‑constrained generation and ranking‑aware feedback. Experiments on Amazon Review datasets show Evo‑Rec consistently outperforms existing discriminative, generative, and reasoning‑enhanced recommenders across all metrics.
arXiv:2608.23400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete Diffusion Models (DDMs) have recently been introduced to recommendation systems, modeling user history as a token generation process via ite...
arXiv:2511.22707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In web environments, user preferences are often refined progressively as users move from browsing broad categories to exploring specific item...