arXiv AI

DeGRe: Dense-supervised Generative Reranking for Recommendation

DeGRe is a dense‑supervised generative reranking framework designed to improve multi‑stage recommender systems by addressing label bias and credit assignment issues. It uses an offline Lookahead Evaluator with beam search to generate dense supervision signals, which are distilled into a lightweight Online Generator that can perform efficient greedy decoding at inference time. Experiments show that DeGRe outperforms baselines on public benchmarks and industrial datasets, and it has been successfully deployed on Taobao Flash Shopping to enhance online recommendations.

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
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Generative Reasoning Re-ranker

arXiv:2602. 07774v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies increasingly explore Large Language Models (LLMs) as a new paradigm for recommendation systems due to their scalability and world knowledge.

By Mingfu Liang, Yufei Li, Jay Xu, Kavosh Asadi, Xi Liu, Shuo Gu, Kaushik Rangadurai, Frank Shyu, Shuaiwen Wang, Song Yang, Zhijing Li, Jiang Liu, Mengying Sun, Fei Tian, Xiaohan Wei, Chonglin Sun, Jacob Tao, Shike Mei, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Sandeep Pandey, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon
arXiv AI
Sep 10

SequenceO1: End-to-End Ultra-Long (100K) Sequence Modeling in Recommendation with Low-Rank Caching

SequenceO1 is an end‑to‑end framework that enables ultra‑long (up to 100K interactions) sequence modeling for recommendation systems. It compresses raw user histories into a fixed‑size sketch using Sketch Attention and then models short‑term and long‑term interests with Target‑to‑History Cross Attention. The system incorporates low‑rank caching, batching, pipeline lift, and a FlashSA kernel to keep training and inference efficient, achieving consistent offline and online performance gains when deployed at full traffic on Douyin.

By Lin Guan, Jia-Qi Yang, Zhishan Zhao, Jiaqi Huang, Hangyu Wang, Longbin Li, Beichuan Zhang, Haonan Jiang, Jinan Ni, Xiangyu Fan, Xiaowen Li, Ziyao Ren, Yuhang Qi, Xiaolong Zhu, Xuanyuan Luo, Qiwei Chen, Yi Cheng, Lele Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 10

HiGR: Industrial-Scale Hierarchical Generative Slate Recommendation Framework in Tencent

arXiv:2512. 24787v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Slate recommendation, which presents users with a ranked item list in a single display, is ubiquitous across mainstream online platforms.

By Yunsheng Pang, Zijian Liu, Yudong Li, Shaojie Zhu, Zijian Luo, Chenyun Yu, Sikai Wu, Shichen Shen, Cong Xu, Bin Wang, Kai Jiang, Chengxiang Zhuo, Zang Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Less can be More: Relieving RAG Bottlenecks via Evidence Frontloading and Pressure-Adaptive Budgeting

The paper introduces “PACE”, a training‑free framework that tackles bottlenecks in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation by frontloading evidence and adaptively budgeting reranking. It first reorders candidate documents based on marginal evidence coverage—prioritizing query‑relevant, complementary, and chain‑forming documents—providing a $(1-1/e)$ approximation guarantee. Then it dynamically adjusts the reranking budget according to the relative pressure of the reranker and the language model, improving evidence recall and reducing p95 latency in multi‑hop QA workloads.

By Weibin Cai, Reza Zafarani
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Difficulty-Aware Semantic-ID Optimization for Generative Recommendation

The paper introduces Difficulty‑Aware Semantic‑ID Optimization (DASO), a post‑training method for generative recommendation that improves tree‑structured item ranking. DASO profiles rollout groups by prefix‑match depth, reallocates a portion of candidates to prefix‑guided completions, and uses a SID‑prefix reward with an auxiliary SFT anchor to address target‑missing failures. On public benchmarks, DASO outperforms MiniOneRec‑style GRPO on 11 of 12 metrics and achieves the best results on 9 of 12 metrics, also improving level‑wise recall on an internal recommendation task.

By Xin Yu, Stephen Li, Sina Aghaei, Zifan Zhu, Jiamu Bai, Guanjie Huang, Bo Peng, Yiyao Liu, Lingzhou Xue
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization

arXiv:2606. 26899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embedding-based retrieval ranks items by their similarity to a query in a shared vector space and usually aims to return the highest-scoring items.

By Chenghao Liu, Yu Zhang, Zhongtao Jiang, Kun Xu, Zhenwei An, Renzhi Wang, Zhao Wang, Jiachen Zhang, Yuxiao Zhang, Kun Xu, Songfang Huang