Recently, Generative Recommenders (GRs) have emerged as a transformative recommendation paradigm by replacing traditional item IDs with semantic indices (SIDs). Owing to the exceptional generative capabilities of diffusion models, a few pioneering works explore developing GRs with diffusion architectures as the backbone.
arXiv:2606. 01670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, Generative Recommenders (GRs) have emerged as a transformative recommendation paradigm by replacing traditional item IDs with semantic indices (SIDs).
arXiv:2606. 14260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic IDs are crucial in generative recommendation, but with a fundamental limitation: temporal information is not well incorporated into semantic IDs.
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: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...
arXiv:2608. 10983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal recommenders fuse collaborative signals with item modalities such as text, images, and audio, but the usefulness of each drifts over time and at different rates.
Multi-modal recommenders fuse collaborative signals with item modalities such as text, images, and audio, but the usefulness of each drifts over time and at different rates. For example, chocolate purchases typically guided by textual ingredient cues can shift toward visual packaging and ambient audio around Valentine's Day.
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.
Positional encoding is a fundamental component of Transformer-based generative recommendation models, where user histories are modeled as autoregressive item sequences. Most positional encoding methods are inherited from natural language processing and mainly represent discrete item order.
arXiv:2608. 16274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Positional encoding is a fundamental component of Transformer-based generative recommendation models, where user histories are modeled as autoregressive item sequences.
FairDiff is a new fairness‑aware diffusion framework designed to mitigate the self‑reinforcing Matthew Effect in Diffusion Recommender Models (DRMs). It introduces Popularity Condition Guidance (PCG) to reweight inference‑time gradients and penalize high‑popularity items, and a Semantic Calibration (SC) module that aligns forward and reverse distributions via optimal transport. Experiments show FairDiff achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance while reducing popularity bias in DRMs.
arXiv:2609.15598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising end-to-end paradigm for personalized recommendation. However, user preferences continuously evol...
arXiv:2606. 12245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cold-start item recommendation remains a persistent challenge in real-world systems due to the absence of interaction histories.