arXiv AI

Cross-Country Code-Mixing for Generative Recommendation

Cross-Country Code-Mixing for Generative Recommendation (CMRec) is a framework that enhances generative recommendation across different countries by injecting cross-country supervision at the data level. It learns a shared semantic codebook from multi-modal content and behavioral co-occurrence, then synthesizes mixed-country sequences through token-level substitutions that respect both static and dynamic constraints. A context-aware loss reweights these mixed samples based on their plausibility, leading to improved recommendation quality in data-sparse countries while maintaining performance in data-rich markets, as demonstrated by significant gains in advertising revenue and orders in real-world e-commerce experiments.

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 Machine Learning
Jun 9

Towards Personalized Bangla Book Recommendation: A Large-Scale Heterogeneous Book Graph Dataset

arXiv:2602. 12129v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personalized book recommendation in Bangla literature has been constrained by the lack of structured, large-scale, and publicly available datasets.

By Rahin Arefin Ahmed, Md. Anik Chowdhury, Sakil Ahmed Sheikh Reza, Devnil Bhattacharjee, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan, Julian McAuley, Nafis Sadeq
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Tlow: Flow-based Item Tokenizer for Recommendation

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 AI
Jun 2

Synthetic Data from Cross-Domain Events for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

arXiv:2606. 00282v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale recommendation systems operate across diverse domains, yet they face the challenges of data sparsity and noisy implicit feedback.

By Xiangyu Wang, Yawen He, Shivendra Pratap Singh, Han Huang, Mengtong Hu, Sharath Ciddu, Yi-Hsuan Hsieh, Erik Groving, Yi Ding, Jieming Di, Tony Wang, Min Yun, Xiaoyu Chen, Ling Leng, Rob Malkin
arXiv AI
Aug 12

FedCGR: Federated Cross-Domain Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2608. 10929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) transfers preference knowledge across related domains, but federated deployment makes cross-domain alignment difficult because the behavioral anchors that align item spaces, such as overlapping users and shared interaction signals, are often sparse, unavailable, or privacy-sensitive across clients.

By Zhuodong Liu, Hugen Lv, Xiangyu Li, Bohan Guo, Peiyu Hu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Preserving Item Semantics for Free: Rethinking Token Initialization in LLM-Based Generative Recommendation

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 Machine Learning
Jun 25

TokenMinds: Pretrained User Tokens and Embeddings for User Understanding in Large Recommender Systems

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.

By Qingyun Liu, Bo Yan, Yang Liu, Yuji Roh, Ekansh Sharma, Likang Yin, Emma Olowo, Min-hsuan Tsai, Yuxuan Li, Diego Uribe, Saksham Aggarwal, Siqi Wu, Yuan Hao, Vikas Kedigehalli, Lukasz Heldt, Lichan Hong, Li Wei, Xinyang Yi
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Grounded Token Initialization for New Vocabulary in LMs for Generative Recommendation

The paper examines how new vocabulary tokens are added to language models for generative recommendation tasks. It shows that the common practice of initializing these tokens as the mean of existing embeddings collapses them into a degenerate subspace, hindering fine‑tuning. The authors propose Grounded Token Initialization (GTI), which places new tokens at semantically meaningful positions in the pretrained embedding space using linguistic supervision, and demonstrate that GTI outperforms mean initialization and other adaptation methods across several benchmarks.

By Daiwei Chen, Zhoutong Fu, Chengming Jiang, Haichao Zhang, Ran Zhou, Tan Wang, Chunnan Yao, Guoyao Li, Rui Cai, Yihan Cao, Ruijie Jiang, Fedor Borisyuk, Jianqiang Shen, Jingwei Wu, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak