arXiv Computation and Language

SteerGR: Steering Generative Recommendation via Sparse Autoencoders for Controllable Game Discovery

SteerGR is a framework that enables concept-level control in generative recommendation for game discovery. It uses sparse autoencoders to define play concepts with an LLM, discover and select features associated with those concepts, and then intervene on the selected features to steer recommendations without retraining the model. Experiments on two industrial generative recommendation models demonstrate that the selected features can successfully steer recommendations toward or away from target concepts.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

Self-Evolving Memory for Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2609.15598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising end-to-end paradigm for personalized recommendation. However, user preferences continuously evol...

By Xinyu Lin, Zhuosong Jiang, Zixiao Suo, Siqin Wang, Hanqing Zeng, Hanchao Yu, Yinglong Xia, Jiang Zhang, Aashu Singh, Fei Liu, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Yang Song, Qifan Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
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
arXiv AI
Jun 30

ReasonRec: A Reasoning-Augmented Multimodal Agent for Unified Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 28357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal recommenders excel at feature fusion but remain opaque and inefficient decision-makers, lacking explicit reasoning and self-awareness of uncertainty.

By Yihua Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Jiyan Yang, Rong Jin, Wen-Yen Chen, Yiping Han, Huayu Li, Buyun Zhang, Liang Luo, Frank Shyu, Luke Simon, Sijia Liu, Tianlong Chen, Xi Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 18

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