Recently, Generative Recommenders (GRs) have emerged as a transformative recommendation paradigm by replacing traditional item IDs with semantic indices (SIDs). Owing to the exceptional generative capabilities of diffusion models, a few pioneering works explore developing GRs with diffusion architectures as the backbone.
arXiv:2606. 14260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic IDs are crucial in generative recommendation, but with a fundamental limitation: temporal information is not well incorporated into semantic IDs.
By Dongdong Nian, Dongqi Fu, Chenliang Xu, Yinglong Xia, Hong Li, Hong Yan, Jian Kang
arXiv:2608.23400v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Discrete Diffusion Models (DDMs) have recently been introduced to recommendation systems, modeling user history as a token generation process via ite...
By Jiaqi Wang, Tianying Liu, Heng Chang, Jihong Guan, Wengen Li, Shuigeng Zhou
Discrete Diffusion Models (DDMs) have recently been introduced to recommendation systems, modeling user history as a token generation process via iterative denoising. However, while effective at captu...
arXiv:2608. 10983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal recommenders fuse collaborative signals with item modalities such as text, images, and audio, but the usefulness of each drifts over time and at different rates.
By Pengyu Zhang, Yangqin Jiang, Klim Zaporojets, Congfeng Cao, Paul Groth
Multi-modal recommenders fuse collaborative signals with item modalities such as text, images, and audio, but the usefulness of each drifts over time and at different rates. For example, chocolate purchases typically guided by textual ingredient cues can shift toward visual packaging and ambient audio around Valentine's Day.