arXiv AI

TSPORec: Token Selection via Preference Optimization for LLM-Based Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2608. 09605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for improving recommendation systems.

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 29

REPREC: Representation Driven Parameter-Efficient Recommendation System

arXiv:2607. 24845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been applied to sequential recommendation by formulating it as a natural language task.

By Harshini Kavuru, Dwipam Katariya, Giri Iyengar, Pranab Mohanty, Kalanand Mishra, Kalanand Mishra

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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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 10

Generative Archetype-Grounded Item Representations for Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 11023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior.

By Yifan Li, Jiahong Liu, Xinni Zhang, Hao Chen, Yankai Chen, Wenhao Yu, Jianting Chen, Irwin King

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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

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jul 5

LBR: Towards Mitigating Length Bias in Large Language Models for Recommendation

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful backbones for recommender systems by reformulating recommendation as a token-level generation task. Despite their promise, we identify a pervasive yet underexplored issue: $\textit{Length Bias}$.

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arXiv AI

Jul 7

LBR: Towards Mitigating Length Bias in Large Language Models for Recommendation

arXiv:2607. 04270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful backbones for recommender systems by reformulating recommendation as a token-level generation task.

By Hongchen Li, Bohao Wang, Jingbang Chen, Weiqin Yang, Hang Pan, Bingde Hu, Can Wang, Jiawei Chen

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jun 9

Generative Archetype-Grounded Item Representations for Sequential Recommendation

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior. However, the limited quality of item representations remains a critical bottleneck.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 17

On the Memorization Behavior of LLMs in Generative Recommendation: Observations, Implications, and Training Strategies

arXiv:2606. 17276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising direction for recommender systems.

By Sunwoo Kim, Sunkyung Lee, Clark Mingxuan Ju, Donald Loveland, Bhuvesh Kumar, Kijung Shin, Neil Shah, Liam Collins

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arXiv AI

Jun 19

Token Factory: Efficiently Integrating Diverse Signals into Large Recommendation Models

arXiv:2606. 19635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Recommendation Models (LRMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in industry-scale recommendation tasks.

By Xilun Chen, Shao-Chuan Wang, Baykal Cakici, Lukasz Heldt, Lichan Hong, Raghu Keshavan, Aniruddh Nath, Li Wei, Xinyang Xi

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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

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arXiv AI

Jun 3

Taiji: Pareto Optimal Policy Optimization with Semantics-IDs Trade-off for Industrial LLM-Enhanced Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 03866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling recommender systems via large language models (LLMs) has become a prominent trend in the industry.

By Yuecheng Li, Zeyu Song, Jing Yao, Chi Lu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai

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