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

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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.

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