arXiv:2607. 17017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As scalability becomes increasingly important in recommendation modeling, recent architectures have advanced the modeling of two broad sources of ranking signals along separate paths: non-sequence features, including user, item, context, and cross features; and sequence features from user behavior histories.
By Renqin Cai, Dawei Sun, Yuanjun Yao, Zhiyong Wang, Velvin Fu, Maggie Zhuang, Yu Shi, Zhongnan Fang, Xuan Cao, Jing Qian, Rui Li
arXiv:2607. 10910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present ZoRRO (Zero-Weight Personalized Recommender System), a zero-weight, training-free framework for personalized news recommendation designed for scalable real-world deployment.
By Johannes Kruse, Ryotaro Shimizu, Kasper Lindskow, Jon Tofteskov, Michael Riis Andersen, Julian McAuley, Jes Frellsen
arXiv:2607. 10016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as backbone architectures for recommender systems because of their strong sequence modeling and representation learning capabilities.
By Zhe Xu, Ankit Peshin, Chiyu Zhang, Feng Qi, Johnson Lui, Anil Ramakrishna, Justin Johnson, Carl Hu, Kaushik Rangadurai, Luke Simon
arXiv:2607. 24025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains; however, directly applying their standard self-attention mechanism to recommendation often yields suboptimal performance, sometimes even trailing behind well-designed simple recommendation models.
By Yu Cui, Yi Xu, Jiahao Wang, Hao Zhang, Yu Zhang, Xiaoyi Zeng, Can Wang, Jinxin Hu, Jiawei Chen
arXiv:2606. 01948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing popularity of group activities has increased the need for methods that provide recommendations to groups of users given their individual preferences.
By Mubaraka Sani Ibrahim, Lehel Csat\'o, Isah Charles Saidu
arXiv:2606. 06779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In multi-vertical e-commerce platforms like DoorDash, relatively newer product verticals such as grocery and retail present a significant opportunity for personalization innovation.
By Nimesh Sinha, Raghav Saboo, Martin Wang, Sudeep Das