arXiv:2603. 23183v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative recommendation have leveraged pretrained LLMs by formulating sequential recommendation as autoregressive generation over a unified token space comprising language tokens and itemic identifiers, where each item is represented by a compact sequence of discrete tokens, namely Semantic IDs (SIDs).
By Yingzhi He, Yan Sun, Junfei Tan, Yuxin Chen, Xiaoyu Kong, Chunxu Shen, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv:2602. 07774v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies increasingly explore Large Language Models (LLMs) as a new paradigm for recommendation systems due to their scalability and world knowledge.
By Mingfu Liang, Yufei Li, Jay Xu, Kavosh Asadi, Xi Liu, Shuo Gu, Kaushik Rangadurai, Frank Shyu, Shuaiwen Wang, Song Yang, Zhijing Li, Jiang Liu, Mengying Sun, Fei Tian, Xiaohan Wei, Chonglin Sun, Jacob Tao, Shike Mei, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Sandeep Pandey, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon
arXiv:2607. 26621v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, motivating their adoption as backbones for foundation recommendation models (FRMs).
By Hao Jiang, Peiru Du, Pengfei Yao, Mengting Li, Siyuan Lou, Kuo Cai, Sheng Yu, Qiang Luo, Jian Liang, Ruiming Tang, Fei Pan, Peng Jiang, Wenwu Ou
arXiv:2608. 07816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative recommendation (GR) leverage large language models (LLMs) as recommender backbones, enabling LLMs to directly generate recommendations conditioned on item-interaction histories.
By Donald Loveland, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Danai Koutra, Neil Shah
arXiv:2606. 31984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial recommendation systems serve billions of users through a multi-stage funnel -- retrieval, early-stage ranking, and re-ranking -- where the final re-ranking step disproportionately shapes user engagement and downstream performance, particularly for carousel and grid display formats.
By Yufei Li (Yongkang), Zaiwei Zhang (Yongkang), Mingfu Liang (Yongkang), Kavosh Asadi (Yongkang), Jay Xu (Yongkang), Jimmy Kim (Yongkang), Chongyang Bai (Yongkang), Jieyi Zhang (Yongkang), Hongye Xie (Yongkang), Prachi Agrawal (Yongkang), Dian Yu (Yongkang), Tianyi Chen (Yongkang), Jean-Pascal Billaud (Yongkang), Garret Buell (Yongkang), YK (Yongkang), Zhu (Yang), Sachin Patil (Yang), Brooke Bian (Yang), Zhou Fang (Yang), Kevin Huang (Yang), Shiva Sudanagunta (Yang), Yuzhen Huang (Yang), Emma Lu (Yang), Chris O'Brien (Yang), Yang Song (Yang), Lihong Li (Yang), Jacob Tao (Yang), Zhicheng Zhu (Yang), Chao Li (Yang), Gaoxiang Liu (Yang), Neil Wu (Yang), Zhongyin Hu (Yang), Li Han (Yang), Loki Chen (Yang), Ming Lei (Yang), Greg Rehm (Yang), Siyuan Song (Yang), Tianwei Zhang (Yang), Li Li (Yang), Ketan Singh (Yang), Yavuz Yetim (Yang), Ilyas Atishev (Yang), Satendra Gera (Yang), Ashkan Sadeghi (Yang), Rachel Yan (Yang), Nikko Mizutani (Yang), Shuaiwen Wang (Yang), Song Yang (Yang), Zhijing Li (Yang), Jiang Liu (Yang), Mengying Sun (Yang), Fei Tian (Yang), Xiaohan Wei (Yang), Chonglin Sun (Yang), Parish Aggarwal (Yang), Kaushik Rangadurai (Yang), Zhi Hua (Yang), Frank Shyu (Yang), Ruchit Sharma (Yang), Liyuan Li (Yang), Shike Mei (Yang), Wenlin Chen (Yang), Santanu Kolay (Yang), Ben Schulte (Yang), Deepak Chandra (Yang), Adam (Yang), Song, Sandeep Pandey, Xi Liu, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon
arXiv:2606. 15331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation models that formulate the task as sequence generation overcome the objective fragmentation problem of traditional cascade architectures, yet existing approaches still suffer from flat semantic representations lacking hierarchical structure for multi-step reasoning and an externally constructed chain-of-thought (CoT) that requires expensive annotations and remains disconnected from the generation objective.
By Shuqi Zhao, Jingsong Su, Xiang Liu, Xingzhi Yao, Yiming Qiu, Huimu Wang, Liang Lin, Pengbo Mo, Mingming Li, Jiao Dai, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu