arXiv AI

Decomposing Staleness in Recommender Systems: A Dual-Filter Framework for Supersession and Decay

arXiv:2608. 15780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stale recommendations are a pervasive challenge and a leading source of user complaints on large-scale content platforms.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 6

Multi-Objective Ranking for Live-Streaming: Balancing Fresh and Delayed Signals with Segment-Aware Targeting

arXiv:2608. 04455v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One of the most challenging problems entertainment live-streaming services face in recommendation systems is that user behaviors are sparse and delayed, and interaction data exhibits bias for different user segments.

By Xiaoyi Gu, Julia Tavares, Eder Santana, Carlos Mendoza-Cardenas, Nikita Mishra, Saad Ali
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Incremental Recommendation via Causal Models

The paper proposes an incremental recommendation system that uses causal modeling to avoid delivering redundant recommendations. By leveraging existing holdback data and a dual‑threshold targeting policy, the authors reduce recommendation impressions by 7% without harming overall content consumption. Joint training with holdback data also improves the calibration of the treated model, suggesting better generalisable representations than purely observational models.

By Athanasios Vlontzos, David Gustafsson, Michael O'Riordan, Ciar\'an M. Gilligan-Lee
arXiv AI
4d ago

FairDiff: Mitigating the Self-Reinforcing Matthew Effect in Diffusion Recommender Models

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.

By Song-Li Wu, Xianquan Wang, Zhaocheng Du, Weinan Gan, Jingyi Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 27

Incremental Recommendation via Causal Models

The paper proposes an incremental recommendation approach that uses a causal model built from existing holdback data to avoid delivering redundant recommendations. By applying a dual‑threshold targeting policy, the system only recommends content when the likelihood of a treated stream is high and the likelihood of an organic stream is low, thereby reducing recommendation impressions by 7% without hurting overall consumption. Joint training with holdback data also improves the calibration of the treated head, suggesting that causal models capture more generalisable representations than purely observational models.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

Self-Evolving Memory for Generative Recommendation

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...

By Xinyu Lin, Zhuosong Jiang, Zixiao Suo, Siqin Wang, Hanqing Zeng, Hanchao Yu, Yinglong Xia, Jiang Zhang, Aashu Singh, Fei Liu, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Yang Song, Qifan Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9

Robust Federated Learning Under Real-World Client Churn

arXiv:2607. 06979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables training shared models on private, on-device data, but production deployments remain constrained to slow, multi-day refresh cycles due to the complexity of coordinating massive client populations.

By Dhruv Garg, Neha Lakhani, Debopam Sanyal, Myungjin Lee, Alexey Tumanov, Ada Gavrilovska
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Continual Graph Memory for Adaptive Recommendation under Intent Drift

The paper introduces CGM-Rec, a continual graph memory framework designed for adaptive recommendation in the presence of intent drift. CGM-Rec treats the knowledge graph as writable memory, comprising a conservative Semantic Graph Memory for stable relational knowledge and a fast-reactive Episodic Lesson Memory for recent outcomes and corrective hints. Experiments show that, with frozen model parameters and one-pass reranking, CGM-Rec outperforms neural and LLM-based baselines across multiple recommendation settings, achieving significant gains such as a 29.58% improvement in HR@1 over the strongest LLM baseline on Bundle.

By Hao Nguyen Ngoc, Tung Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Hanh, Hoang Thai Dinh, Nguyen Xuan Tung
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Safety as a Constraint: Fine-Tuning a LLM Recommender to Explain Itself

The paper presents a method for fine‑tuning a large language model (LLM) recommender to generate personalized, non‑harmful explanations for its recommendations. By training two LLM‑judge reward models and using constrained GRPO, the authors achieve a significant increase in the PASS rate for all three criteria, from 0.649 to 0.956 on their own judges and from 0.677 to 0.931 on an independent judge. The fine‑tuned model maintains its original recommendation performance, demonstrating that LLM‑based recommenders can be adapted to complex tasks without loss of effectiveness.

By Jiashu He, Emma Yanyang Kong, JJ Tan, David Fagnan