EPIC: Explicit Posterior Item Conditioning for Semantic ID Diffusion Recommendation proposes a method that adds explicit item-level competition into the denoising process of Semantic ID (SID) generative recommendation. The approach builds a personalized posterior over feasible candidate items based on the current generation context and the user's recent interactions, then projects this distribution back to unresolved SID positions to guide subsequent token decisions. Experiments on four Amazon benchmarks show consistent improvements over strong baselines, with diagnostic analyses indicating that the gains stem from personalized transition evidence that preserves promising item hypotheses during denoising.
arXiv:2608.23400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete Diffusion Models (DDMs) have recently been introduced to recommendation systems, modeling user history as a token generation process via ite...
Discrete Diffusion Models (DDMs) have recently been introduced to recommendation systems, modeling user history as a token generation process via iterative denoising. However, while effective at captu...
arXiv:2607. 21101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic-ID-based generative recommendation represents items as sequences of shared semantic tokens, enabling token recombination beyond isolated item IDs.
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.
arXiv:2607. 24995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic IDs (SIDs) are now a central component of generative recommendation.
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.
arXiv:2510. 21805v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative recommendation (GR) is an emerging paradigm that represents each item via a tokenizer as an n-digit semantic ID (SID) and predicts the next item by autoregressively generating its SID conditioned on the user's history.
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.
arXiv:2511.22707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In web environments, user preferences are often refined progressively as users move from browsing broad categories to exploring specific item...
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: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.
arXiv:2608. 14011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation autoregressively generates the semantic IDs of the target item, unifying preference modeling and index retrieval within the shared token space.