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:2511.22707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In web environments, user preferences are often refined progressively as users move from browsing broad categories to exploring specific item...
By Tianxin Wei, Xuying Ning, Xuxing Chen, Ruizhong Qiu, Yupeng Hou, Yan Xie, Shuang Yang, Zhigang Hua, Jingrui He
The paper introduces Evo-Rec, a three‑stage framework that improves generative recommendation by learning better reasoning traces for Semantic ID (SID) generation. It first aligns SIDs with textual and behavioral contexts, then selects candidate reasoning traces that improve ground‑truth item prediction, and finally refines the reasoning policy via reinforcement learning with catalog‑constrained generation and ranking‑aware feedback. Experiments on Amazon Review datasets show Evo‑Rec consistently outperforms existing discriminative, generative, and reasoning‑enhanced recommenders across all metrics.
By Mengdan Zhu, Yufan Zhao, Sophie Di, Yao Zhao, Tao Di, Yulan Yan, Sridhar Iyer, Liang Zhao
The paper introduces Evo-Rec, a three‑stage framework that improves generative recommendation by learning better reasoning traces for Semantic ID (SID) generation. First, it aligns SIDs with textual and behavioral contexts; second, it samples and selects reasoning traces that improve ground‑truth item prediction via supervised fine‑tuning; third, it refines the reasoning policy with reinforcement learning using catalog‑constrained generation and ranking‑aware feedback. Experiments on three Amazon Review datasets show Evo‑Rec consistently outperforms discriminative, generative, and other reasoning‑enhanced recommenders across all metrics.
arXiv:2608. 11061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale neural recommender systems are typically trained with a softmax cross-entropy objective over the full item vocabulary.
By Artyom Sabitov, Daniil Volkov, Alexey Zaytsev
arXiv:2609.15094v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In industrial recommendation feeds, presenting a static headline for an item often fails to satisfy the diverse, multimodal interests of the user pop...
By Yi Chen, Rufeng Cheng, Qiang Xie, Tao Li