arXiv Machine Learning

Cardinality-Decomposed Loss: Matching Training Objectives to Relation Structure in Heterogeneous Recommendation Graphs

arXiv:2607. 20737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Neural Networks trained on heterogenous bipartite graphs form a common basis in recommendation systems.

arXiv AI

1d ago

LlamaRec-LKG-RAG: A Single-Pass, Learnable Knowledge Graph-RAG Framework for LLM-Based Ranking

arXiv:2506. 07449v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven their adoption in recommender systems through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks.

By Vahid Azizi, Fatemeh Koochaki

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 5

Bridging the Semantic-Collaborative Gap: An Asymmetric Graph Architecture for Cold-Start Item Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 06225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative filtering and graph-based recommendation models are highly effective because they leverage observed user interactions, but this dependence creates a fundamental cold-start challenge when newly added content has no interaction history.

By Anh Truong, John Trenkle, Yuanbo Chen, Honghong Zhao, Abdullah Alchihabi, Effy Fang, Michael Tamir

rag

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 11

PreGress: Ranking-Native Pre-training and Prompting for Graph Node Ranking

arXiv:2608. 09016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Node ranking is a fundamental problem in graph information retrieval, measuring the relative importance of nodes and supporting a wide range of applications such as influence analysis, recommendation, and graph-based retrieval augmented generation.

By Lujie Ban, Jiasheng shi, Yingli Zhou, Kaiwen Xue, Daiyin Wang, Xubin Li, Shuanghua Li, Chenhao Ma

llms rag benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 17

DualHNIE: Dual-Channel Hypergraph Learning for Node Importance Estimation in Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2512. 12477v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Estimating node importance in heterogeneous knowledge graphs is a fundamental problem underlying recommendation, search, and knowledge decision systems.

By Jiawen Chen, Yanyan He, Qi Shao, Mengli Wei, Duxin Chen, Wenwu Yu, Yanlong Zhao

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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 18

RankGraph-2: Lifecycle Co-Design for Billion-Node Graph Learning in Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 18379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-based retrieval at billion-node scale requires jointly solving three tightly coupled problems -- graph construction, representation learning, and real-time serving -- yet existing work addresses each in isolation.

By Renzhi Wu, Zikun Cui, Junjie Yang, Tai Guo, Hong Li, Xian Chen, Li Yu, Ke Pan, Sri Reddy, Mahesh Srinivasan, Nipun Mathur, Haomin Yu, Hong Yan

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arXiv AI

Jul 29

TRWH: A Text-Driven Random Walk Heterogeneous GNN for Semantic-Aware Sparse Recommendation

arXiv:2607. 25471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have each advanced recommendation systems by modeling structural and semantic signals, respectively.

By He Ma, Chen Liu

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arXiv AI

Jun 26

Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization

arXiv:2606. 26899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embedding-based retrieval ranks items by their similarity to a query in a shared vector space and usually aims to return the highest-scoring items.

By Chenghao Liu, Yu Zhang, Zhongtao Jiang, Kun Xu, Zhenwei An, Renzhi Wang, Zhao Wang, Jiachen Zhang, Yuxiao Zhang, Kun Xu, Songfang Huang

llms rag diffusion fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 9

GraphLoRA: Structure-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Model Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 07526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for recommendation (LLMRec) due to their powerful reasoning and generalization abilities.

By Lin Mu, Guoji Wang, Li Ni, Lei Sang, Zhize Wu, Peiquan Jin, Yiwen Zhang

llms rag benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 28

TextBridgeGNN: Pre-training Graph Neural Network for Cross-Domain Recommendation via Text-Guided Transfer

arXiv:2601. 02366v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph-based recommendation has achieved great success in recent years.

By Yiwen Chen, Yiqing Wu, Huishi Luo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Deqing Wang, Zhao Zhang

llms rag fine-tuning

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 31

Fully Inductive Cardinality Estimation

arXiv:2607. 28311v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Query optimization of Basic Graph Patterns (BGP) SPARQL queries over Knowledge Graphs (KG) requires accurate cardinality estimation.

By Tim Schwabe, Lukas Ketzer, Maribel Acosta

rag

arXiv AI

Jun 2

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.

By Jonathan Mayo, Moshe Unger, Konstantin Bauman

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