arXiv Machine Learning

Heterogeneous Ranking in Industrial-Scale Recommender Systems: A Case Study

arXiv:2607. 27577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous recommendation feeds present complex challenges that extend beyond those found in highly homogeneous environments (e.

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
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
Sep 25

DeGRe: Dense-supervised Generative Reranking for Recommendation

DeGRe is a dense‑supervised generative reranking framework designed to improve multi‑stage recommender systems by addressing label bias and credit assignment issues. It uses an offline Lookahead Evaluator with beam search to generate dense supervision signals, which are distilled into a lightweight Online Generator that can perform efficient greedy decoding at inference time. Experiments show that DeGRe outperforms baselines on public benchmarks and industrial datasets, and it has been successfully deployed on Taobao Flash Shopping to enhance online recommendations.

By Chaotian Song, Jingyao Zhang, Chenghao Chen, Zisen Sang, Dehai Zhao, Guodong Cao, Boxi Wu, Deng Cai, Jia Jia
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Lightweight Ranking Heads: Accelerating Multi-Task Experimentation in Production Recommender Systems

The paper introduces Lightweight Ranking Heads (Light Heads), a framework that allows new prediction tasks to be added to large multi-task recommender systems without retraining the backbone model. By using stop‑gradients and stateless daily training, Light Heads isolate new tasks, preventing conflicts with existing ones. Deployed at YouTube scale, the approach cuts multi‑task experimentation cycles from weeks to days, enabling faster A/B testing and deployment of new ranking tasks.

By Sanjay Surendranath Girija, Aniruddh Nath, Li Wei, Yanhao Jiang, Shawn Andrews, Lukasz Heldt, Yi Wu, Aditya Mahajan, Mohit Sharma
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 28

MARS: Multi-Agent Re-ranking for Repeat-Order Food Delivery Recommendation

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in recommender systems, but it is often unclear how much performance can be obtained from strong pre-trained backbones alone when they are placed inside a structured recommendation pipeline. In this paper, we present MARS, a modular multi-agent re-ranking framework for repeat-order food delivery recommendation.

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
Aug 3

GALA: Generative Aligned Learning for Adaptive Multimodal Representation in the Taobao Shangou Recommender System

arXiv:2607. 29213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern recommender systems in food delivery increasingly leverage multimodal signals, including images, text, and user interaction histories, to enhance user experience, yet effective fusion of these heterogeneous modalities remains challenging, hindering both the joint modeling of multimodal signals and adaptation to evolving user intent.

By Jiping Liu, Zhongmin Zhang, Zisen Sang, Zhijia Fang, Tao Ouyang, Ma Jiang, Shaopeng Liang, Zeyang Hou, Guodong Cao, Jia Jia
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

LIGE-GR: A Smooth Leap from Ranking to Generative Recommendation in the LLM Era

LIGE‑GR is a framework that transitions traditional ranking‑based recommender systems to a generative, listwise approach inspired by large language models. It extends existing pointwise recommendation models into a listwise generation system, enabling sequence‑level optimization without overhauling the entire infrastructure. Experiments on Instagram Reels and Facebook Video show modest gains in user time spent—1.14 % and 0.72 % respectively—while adding only slight inference overhead.

By Venkat Srinivas, Chenzhang He, Sam Woodmansee, Shawn Lian, Wenjie Hu, Renjie Jiang, Ziheng Huang, Xinyuan Zhang, Zhihao Zheng, Zhuoran Yu, Rui Li, Lei Yuan, Ziwei Li, Jimmy Jia, Mert Terzihan, Ekrem Kocaguneli, Yiming Liao, Zhichen Zhao, Yue Yin, Yue Weng, Wanlin Ma, Xufeng Cai, Weimiao Wu, Yezhou Huang, Du Zhang, Yukun Ding, Aaron Johnston, Yueming Wang, Zhaojie Gong, Yuting Zhang, Serena Li, Adithya Ganesh, Boying Liu, Haichuan Yang, Xialu Li, Matt Ma, Qunshu Zhang, John Joshua Miller, Praveen Rathinavelu, Cheng Huang, Aadhar Sachdeva, Josh Karns, Andres Aaron Gutierrez, Neil Agarwal, Gustas Pladis, Vladimir Batygin, Gopal Ray, Aditya Priyadarshi, Shantanu Patil, Zhe Wang, Penny Pan, Yiping Han, Arun Singh, Guangdeng Liao, Bi Xue, Xinyao Hu, Yang Song, Yisong Song, Meihong Wang, Haotian Wu, Deepak Agarwal, Ji Liu