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VaLiDRec: Variable-Length LLM-Aligned Semantic IDs for Generative Recommendation

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arXiv:2607. 25209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation commonly represents items using fixed-length semantic identifiers (SIDs) constructed through clustering and quantization.

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