arXiv:2610.00737v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Personalized image generation has remained narrowly focused on conditional synthesis from curated visual exemplars, rather than capturing who a user...
By Bo Ni, Ngoc N. Tran, Qinwen Ge, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Samyadeep Basu, Sungchul Kim, Puneet Mathur, Nedim Lipka, Tong Yu, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Tyler Derr
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:2510. 11194v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized alignment is crucial for enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric interactions.
By Peiming Li, Zhiyuan Hu, Yang Tang, Shiyu Li, Xi Chen
The paper introduces Evo-Rec, a three‑stage framework that improves generative recommendation by learning better reasoning traces for Semantic ID (SID) generation. It first aligns SIDs with textual and behavioral contexts, then selects candidate reasoning traces that improve ground‑truth item prediction, and finally refines the reasoning policy via reinforcement learning with catalog‑constrained generation and ranking‑aware feedback. Experiments on Amazon Review datasets show Evo‑Rec consistently outperforms existing discriminative, generative, and reasoning‑enhanced recommenders across all metrics.
By Mengdan Zhu, Yufan Zhao, Sophie Di, Yao Zhao, Tao Di, Yulan Yan, Sridhar Iyer, Liang Zhao
The paper introduces Evo-Rec, a three‑stage framework that improves generative recommendation by learning better reasoning traces for Semantic ID (SID) generation. First, it aligns SIDs with textual and behavioral contexts; second, it samples and selects reasoning traces that improve ground‑truth item prediction via supervised fine‑tuning; third, it refines the reasoning policy with reinforcement learning using catalog‑constrained generation and ranking‑aware feedback. Experiments on three Amazon Review datasets show Evo‑Rec consistently outperforms discriminative, generative, and other reasoning‑enhanced recommenders across all metrics.
arXiv:2605.07872v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Multimodal reward models have advanced substantially in text and image domains, yet progress in video understanding reward modeling remains s...
By Yuancheng Wei, Linli Yao, Lei Li, Haojie Zhang, Hao Zhou, Fandong Meng, Xu Sun
arXiv:2603. 23183v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative recommendation have leveraged pretrained LLMs by formulating sequential recommendation as autoregressive generation over a unified token space comprising language tokens and itemic identifiers, where each item is represented by a compact sequence of discrete tokens, namely Semantic IDs (SIDs).
By Yingzhi He, Yan Sun, Junfei Tan, Yuxin Chen, Xiaoyu Kong, Chunxu Shen, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv:2606. 08841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly deployed in open-ended creative contexts, yet their outputs remain impersonal, optimized for aggregate aesthetics rather than individual taste.
By Harini SI, Somesh Singh, Yaman Kumar Singla, David Doermann, Rajiv Ratn Shah
arXiv:2608. 10447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model-based recommender systems are increasingly adopting slow-thinking models that generate step-by-step reasoning before making predictions, often achieving higher accuracy than fast-thinking models that predict directly.
By Linh Dieu Le, Tong Chen, Shazia Sadiq, Hongzhi Yin, Ming Jin, Junliang Yu
arXiv:2607. 00486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models are highly effective at modeling complex data distributions, including images and text.
By Anindya Sarkar, Nasik Muhammad Nafi, Isaac Lyngaas, Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
arXiv:2602. 07533v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reward models are critical for reinforcement learning from human feedback, as they determine the alignment quality and reliability of generative models.
By Yankai Yang, Yancheng Long, Hongyang Wei, Wei Chen, Tianke Zhang, Kaiyu Jiang, Haonan Fan, Changyi Liu, Jiankang Chen, Kaiyu Tang, Bin Wen, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao, Han Li, Shuo Yang
Large language model-based recommender systems are increasingly adopting slow-thinking models that generate step-by-step reasoning before making predictions, often achieving higher accuracy than fast-thinking models that predict directly. However, their reasoning traces are often unnecessarily verbose, increasing inference costs without commensurate accuracy gains.