arXiv AI

Breaking the Information Silo: Semantic Personas for Cross-Domain Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 01783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital platforms increasingly operate as isolated information silos, limiting their ability to construct comprehensive user representations across domains.

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 Computation and Language
Aug 25

PersonaMem-v3: Toward Omni-Platform Personal Intelligence for Holistic User Understanding, Recommendation, and Agentic Tasks

PersonaMem-v3 is a benchmark and evaluation harness designed to assess omni-platform personal intelligence for AI agents. It is built from over one million anonymized real-world engagement histories, covering social media, chatbots, calendars, and AI companions, and tracks user preferences and habits over time. The benchmark tests agents on personalization, LLM-powered recommendation, proactiveness, agentic tool use, and geo-temporal reasoning, evaluating their ability to infer holistic user understanding, personalize responses, rerank recommendations, follow user steering, and avoid inappropriate personalization.

By Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan, Zhuoqun Hao, Yuchen Liu, Maohao Shen, Sihao Chen, Gregory Wornell, Chris Callison-Burch, Lyle Ungar, Dan Roth, Qi Guo, Xiangjun Fan, Camillo J. Taylor, Hanchao Yu
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Realizing Scaling Laws in Recommender Systems: A Foundation-Expert Paradigm for Hyperscale Model Deployment

arXiv:2508. 02929v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling laws have been established for recommender systems, yet efficiently deploying foundation model (FM) across multiple recommendation surfaces remains a major unsolved challenge.

By Dai Li, Kevin Course, Wei Li, Hongwei Li, Jie Hua, Yiqi Chen, Zhao Zhu, Rui Jian, Xuan Cao, Bi Xue, Yu Shi, Jing Qian, Kai Ren, Matt Ma, Qunshu Zhang, Rui Li
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
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
Sep 2

VIBE-Bench: Evaluating Personalized Large Language Models When Profiles Don't Mean Preferences

The paper introduces VIBE‑Bench, a new benchmark designed to test personalized large language models (PLLMs) in a regime where user profile cues and query‑specific preferences do not share the same conceptual space, a situation termed profile‑preference conceptual misalignment (PRCM). VIBE‑Bench contains 3,504 personas, 12,239 dialogues, and a manually verified gold test set, and includes two psychology‑grounded tasks that require cross‑concept preference reasoning beyond surface semantic overlap. Experiments show that existing PLLMs largely depend on shallow semantic correlations and struggle to learn robust cross‑concept mappings, highlighting PRCM as a distinct failure mode for personalization models.

By Yiwen Jiang, Yang Deng, Stephanie Fong, Zimu Wang, Yaling Shen, Wei Feng, Hongxi Yang, Xiangyu Zhao, Zhongxing Xu, Deval Mehta, Xuelian Cheng, Zongyuan Ge
arXiv AI
Jun 26

The Best of the Two Worlds: Harmonizing Semantic and Hash IDs for Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2512. 10388v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conventional Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) typically assign unique hash IDs (HID) to construct item embeddings, which mainly capture collaborative signals from historical user-item interactions.

By Ziwei Liu, Yejing Wang, Wanyu Wang, Wang Zejian, Qidong Liu, Zijian Zhang, Chong Chen, Wei Huang, Xiangyu Zhao