arXiv AI

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Two Tower Recommendation Models

arXiv:2403. 00802v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Production-grade recommender systems rely heavily on a large-scale corpus used by online media services, including Netflix, Pinterest, and Amazon.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

ZoRRO: A Zero-Weight Personalized Recommender System for Scalable News Recommendation

arXiv:2607. 10910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present ZoRRO (Zero-Weight Personalized Recommender System), a zero-weight, training-free framework for personalized news recommendation designed for scalable real-world deployment.

By Johannes Kruse, Ryotaro Shimizu, Kasper Lindskow, Jon Tofteskov, Michael Riis Andersen, Julian McAuley, Jes Frellsen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

The Value of Personalized Recommendations: Evidence from Netflix

arXiv:2511. 07280v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personalized recommendation systems shape much of user choice online, yet their targeted nature makes separating out the value of recommendation and the underlying goods challenging.

By Kevin Zielnicki, Guy Aridor, Aur\'elien Bibaut, Allen Tran, Winston Chou, Nathan Kallus
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Probabilistic Residual Learning for Online Recommendations

arXiv:2607. 20863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern recommender systems are typically based on deep learning (DL) models, where a dense encoder learns representations of users and items.

By Wenyuan Wang, Yusong Zhao, Zihao Xu, Hengyi Wang, Qi Xu, Zhigang Hua, Yan Xie, Yi Wang, Zihao Zhao, Bo Long, Chengzhi Mao, Shuang Yang, Hengguan Huang, Hao Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

Probabilistic Residual Learning for Online Recommendations

Modern recommender systems are typically based on deep learning (DL) models, where a dense encoder learns representations of users and items. As a result, these systems often suffer from the black-box nature and computational complexity of the underlying models, making it difficult to systematically enhance their recommendation capabilities.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Tokenizing Numerical and Embedding Features for LLM RecSys

arXiv:2607. 10016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as backbone architectures for recommender systems because of their strong sequence modeling and representation learning capabilities.

By Zhe Xu, Ankit Peshin, Chiyu Zhang, Feng Qi, Johnson Lui, Anil Ramakrishna, Justin Johnson, Carl Hu, Kaushik Rangadurai, Luke Simon
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

SpecFormer: Mitigating Embedding and Attention Collapse via Spectral-Aware Transformer for Recommendation

arXiv:2607. 24025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains; however, directly applying their standard self-attention mechanism to recommendation often yields suboptimal performance, sometimes even trailing behind well-designed simple recommendation models.

By Yu Cui, Yi Xu, Jiahao Wang, Hao Zhang, Yu Zhang, Xiaoyi Zeng, Can Wang, Jinxin Hu, Jiawei Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

DUET -- Dual User Embedding Transformers for Offsite Conversion Prediction

arXiv:2606. 10243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offsite conversion rate (OCVR) prediction is an important ranking problem in computational recommendation systems.

By Reazul Hasan Russel, Mingwei Tang, Rostam Shirani, Xinlong Liu, Navid Madani, Leo Ding, Yawen He, Xiangyu Wang, Mustafa Acar, Ashish Katiyar, Yuhai Li, Alan Yang, Metarya Ruparel, Derek Qiang Xu, Rupert Wu, Rui Yang, Liang Tao, Xinyi Zhao, Larry Zhang, Sri Reddy, Rob Malkin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

RecRec: Recursive Refinement for Sequential Recommendation

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.

By Pervez Shaik, Prosenjit Biswas, Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar