arXiv:2608.24207v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Semantic identifiers (SIDs) represent entities as hierarchical token sequences for generative retrieval and recommendation. Residual-quantization token...
By Yunxiao Luo, Siyuan Wang, Ben Chen, Chenyi Lei
The paper proposes replacing a static multi‑level small semantic codebook with a dynamic single‑level large semantic codebook for generative recommendation. It introduces an exposure‑aware update mechanism and an offline evaluation framework, achieving significant improvements in recall, NDCG, decoding efficiency, and online consumption metrics on public datasets and production traffic.
By Tianlu Xie, Xin Ku, Mingjie Sun, Yunhao Sha, Lixiang Wang, Peng Wang, Yiyu Wang, Wenjin Wu, Zhaojie Liu, Peng Jiang, Wenwu Ou
arXiv:2512. 10388v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conventional Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) typically assign unique hash IDs (HID) to construct item embeddings, which mainly capture collaborative signals from historical user-item interactions.
By Ziwei Liu, Yejing Wang, Wanyu Wang, Wang Zejian, Qidong Liu, Zijian Zhang, Chong Chen, Wei Huang, Xiangyu Zhao
The paper introduces Tlow, a flow-based item tokenizer that transforms raw semantic embeddings into a latent space following a standard normal distribution, enabling independent tokenization and simplifying distributional complexity. Tlow incorporates codebook guidance to align token embeddings with the codebook space, producing semantically clear token IDs. Experiments on four public datasets and an online multi‑modal retrieval task on WeChat show that Tlow improves recommendation performance and increases user click‑through rates by over 10%.
By Nian Li, Chonggang Song, Jingtao Ding, Lingling Yi, Yong Li, Qingmin Liao
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
arXiv:2607. 25216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic ID-based generative recommendation tokenizes each item into a sequence of discrete semantic IDs and predicts the next item by generating semantic IDs.
By Ziyu Zheng, Zhengshun Du, Yaming Yang, Bin Tong, Guan Wang, Meng Yan, Ziyu Guan, Wei Zhao
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
arXiv:2605. 17779v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative recommendation reformulates recommendation as next-token prediction over discrete semantic identifiers (IDs).
By Minhao Wang, Bowen Wu, Wei Zhang
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
arXiv:2608. 03276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context inference with large language models is constrained by the linear growth of the key-value cache to sequence length.
By Wonpyo Park, Seung-won Hwang
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
arXiv:2606. 04374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite rapid progress of continuous embeddings for e-commerce search relevance, a long-standing open problem is the difficulty in capturing fine-grained attribute distinctions.
By Bokang Wang, Xing Fang, Mingmin Jin, Jing Wang, Zhentao Song, Guangxin Song, Jianbo Zhu