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  1. Neither Black nor White: Balancing Semantic and Collaborative Signals with Graph-Informed Semantic IDs (GrIS)

    Oct 1, 2026Aleksei Medvedev, Alejandro Ariza-Casabona, Steven Derby +3Sequential RecommendationSemantic Relationships

    Huawei Ireland Research Centre Dublin, Ireland

  2. RouteRec: Behavior-Guided Sparse Routing for Sequential Recommendation

    Sep 30, 2026Junyeong Song, Jaemin YooSequential RecommendationRecommendation Quality

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Seoul National University Seoul, Republic of Korea

  3. From Interests to Semantic IDs: Retrieval-Grounded Credit Assignment for Generative Recommendation

    Sep 24, 2026Mengdan Zhu, Yufan Zhao, Yao Zhao +5Sequential RecommendationCredit Assignment

    Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA · Microsoft Redmond, WA, USA · Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

  4. Learning Better Reasoning for Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs

    Sep 24, 2026Mengdan Zhu, Yufan Zhao, Sophie Di +5Sequential RecommendationCross-Encoder Reranking

    Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA · Microsoft Redmond, WA, USA · Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

  5. A Systematic Benchmark of Explainable Methods for Temporal Attribution in Sequential Recommendation Systems

    Sep 23, 2026Akash Pandey, Kanisha Shah, Addrish Roy +5Multimodal Recommendation ModelSequential Recommendation

    Capital One, AI Foundations San Jose, CA, USA · Capital One, AI Foundations New York, NY, USA · Capital One, AI Foundations McLean, VA, USA +1

  6. LIGE-GR: A Smooth Leap from Ranking to Generative Recommendation in the LLM Era

    Sep 16, 2026Venkat Srinivas, Chenzhang He, Sam Woodmansee +63Sequential RecommendationRecommendation

  7. Generate to Explore, Select to Exploit: Aligning LLM-based Headline Generation with Personalized Recommendation

    Sep 14, 2026Yi Chen, Rufeng Cheng, Qiang Xie +1Sequential RecommendationRecommendation Quality

    Baidu Inc., Beijing, China

  8. Recommendation Retrievers Need Verifiers: Universal Generative Reranking for Sequential Recommendations

    Sep 14, 2026Benyu Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Rui Li +3Sequential RecommendationCross-Encoder Reranking

    Meta MRS

  9. SequenceO1: End-to-End Ultra-Long (100K) Sequence Modeling in Recommendation with Low-Rank Caching

    Sep 8, 2026Lin Guan, Jia-Qi Yang, Zhishan Zhao +15Multimodal Recommendation ModelSequential Recommendation

    ByteDance

  10. Quantifying the Engagement Trap: Impact of Short-form Video Recommender Systems on Users with ADHD

    Sep 7, 2026Vedad Misirlic, Gregor Mayr, Elisabeth LexSequential RecommendationAnalytics

    Graz University of Technology, Austria

  11. FSGR: Mitigating Token Frequency Bias for Fair SID-Based Generative Recommendation

    Aug 13, 2026Yuchen Zheng, Sihan Xu, Jingwen Yang +3Sequential RecommendationAlgorithmic Fairness

    1VCIP, TMCC, DISSec, College of Computer Science, Nankai University · 2VCIP, DISSec, College of Cryptology and Cyber Science, Nankai University

  12. HCGRec: Hint-Conditioned Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs

    Aug 12, 2026Kangning Zhang, Haotian Fang, Xukun Luo +6Sequential RecommendationCode Completion

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China · Mei Tuan Beijing, China

  13. From Prompting to Behavioral Alignment: Personalized LLM Judges for Recommendation Evaluation

    Aug 11, 2026Alireza S. Ziabari, Kat Ellis, Colleen Chan +1Sequential RecommendationLarge Language Model Evaluation

    Netflix Los Angeles, USA · Netflix Los Gatos, USA

  14. Stay or Stray - A Dynamical Systems Viewpoint of Popularity Bias

    Aug 11, 2026Sarvesh Shashidhar, Lankireddy Prabhat, Arpit Agarwal +3Sequential RecommendationDynamical Systems

    Centre of Machine Intelligence & Data Science Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA · Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India +3

  15. Adaptive Semantic Capacity Allocation for Parallel Generative Recommendation

    Aug 10, 2026Chenxi Li, Yuchen Lu, Xu YangSequential RecommendationReal-World Content Recommendation Problem

    University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  16. Preserving Item Semantics for Free: Rethinking Token Initialization in LLM-Based Generative Recommendation

    Aug 7, 2026Donald Loveland, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar +2Sequential RecommendationPrior Knowledge Integration

    Snap Inc. Bellevue, WA, USA · University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  17. Auditing Semantic Gains in Sequential Recommendation: A Lightweight Recovery Test

    Aug 2, 2026Kong Wang, Zhongke He, Xiang Chen +4Sequential RecommendationModel Auditing

    Hunan University · Dalian University of Technology · Tongji University +3

  18. Interpretable Representation via LLM-Driven Generative Disentanglement for Local-Life Service Recommendation

    Jul 30, 2026Long Zhang, Hao Jiang, Sheng Yu +3Sequential RecommendationRecommendation

    Kuaishou Technology Beijing, China

  19. ROCS: Request-Oriented Compute Sharing for Efficient Large-Scale Recommendation

    Jul 30, 2026Yuxin Chen, Liang Luo, Buyun Zhang +44Sequential RecommendationLoad Balancing

  20. ClockRoPE: Random Fourier Rotations for Temporal Routine Modeling

    Jul 29, 2026Yiwen Chen, Joshua Ainslie, Krzysztof Choromanski +4Rotary Position EmbeddingSequence Modeling

    YouTube · Google DeepMind

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

    Jul 28, 2026Shutong Qiao, Wei Yuan, Tong Chen +3Sequential RecommendationRecommendation

    University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia · Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China · Griffith University Gold Coast, Australia

  22. Understanding Semantic IDs: From Item Representation to Item Selection in Generative Recommendation

    Jul 27, 2026Junting Wang, Xinrui He, Yunzhe Li +1Sequential RecommendationCross-Encoder Reranking

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois, USA

  23. Escaping the Euclidean Void: Manifold-Informed Flow Matching for Sequential Recommendation

    Jul 26, 2026Dengzhao Fang, Jingtong Gao, Yu Li +2Sequential RecommendationRiemannian Flow Matching

    Jilin University · City University of Hong Kong

  24. REPREC: Representation Driven Parameter-Efficient Recommendation System

    Jul 24, 2026Harshini Kavuru, Dwipam Katariya, Giri Iyengar +3Multimodal Recommendation ModelSequential Recommendation

    The Ohio State University, USA · Capital One, AI Foundations, USA

  25. Can Generative Recommendation Reach Cold Items? A Temporal Perspective on Semantic-ID Generation

    Jul 23, 2026Jie Peng, Yanping Zheng, Zhewei Zhe +3Sequential RecommendationReachability

    Renmin University of China · Beijing, China · Alibaba

  26. Zero-Observation User Reactivation with Gap-Driven Dimensional Gating

    Jul 22, 2026Jiandong Ding, Tianying Liu, Fuyuan Liu +2Sequential RecommendationDiscontinuous Gating

    Fudan University Shanghai, China · Huawei Technologies Shanghai, China

  27. Empowering Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Hybrid Tokenization and Serial-Parallel Decoding

    Jul 21, 2026Yuxuan Hu, Yuhao Wang, Tianbo Huang +4Sequential RecommendationSequence Modeling

    City University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong, China · ByteDance Inc. +1

  28. MESH: Scaling Up Retrieval with Heterogeneous Content Unification

    Jul 14, 2026Jiaxing Qu, Yilin Chen, Junpeng Hou +4Real-World Content Recommendation ProblemSequential Recommendation

    Pinterest Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA

  29. ZoRRO: A Zero-Weight Personalized Recommender System for Scalable News Recommendation

    Jul 12, 2026Johannes Kruse, Ryotaro Shimizu, Kasper Lindskow +4Sequential Recommendation

    Technical University of Denmark Kongens Lyngby, Denmark · JP/Politikens Media Group Copenhagen, Denmark · ZOZO Research Tokyo, Japan +2

  30. RecRec: Recursive Refinement for Sequential Recommendation

    Jul 12, 2026Pervez Shaik, Prosenjit Biswas, Abhinav Thorat +2Multimodal Recommendation ModelSequential Recommendation

    Sony Research India India

  31. Toward Personalized Social Robots for Child Well-being: Data Requirement Principles from a Recommender-System Perspective

    Jul 6, 2026Jin Huang, Eric Nichols, Fethiye Irmak Dogan +1ChildrenProfile

    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom · Honda Research Institute Japan, Wako, Japan

  32. Breaking the Filter Bubble: A Semantic Pareto-DQN Framework for Multi-Objective Recommendation

    Jun 23, 2026Cláudio Lúcio Do Val Lopes, Lucca Machado da Silva, André de Oliveira BrandãoSequential RecommendationMulti-Objective Reinforcement Learning

    A3Data - MG, Brazil

  33. On the Memorization Behavior of LLMs in Generative Recommendation: Observations, Implications, and Training Strategies

    Jun 15, 2026Sunwoo Kim, Sunkyung Lee, Clark Mingxuan Ju +5Sequential RecommendationLarge Language Model Memory

    1KAIST · 2Sungkyunkwan University · 3Snap Inc.

  34. Implicit Reasoning for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation

    Jun 12, 2026Yinhan He, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar +3Sequential RecommendationReasoning Skills

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA · Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA, USA

  35. Generative Archetype-Grounded Item Representations for Sequential Recommendation

    Jun 9, 2026Yifan Li, Jiahong Liu, Xinni Zhang +5Multimodal Recommendation ModelSequential Recommendation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR, China · McGill University Montreal, Canada · Tongji University Shanghai, China

  36. Bradley-Terry Rankings for Recommender Systems Across Dataset Taxonomies

    Jun 5, 2026Ekaterina Grishina, Stepan Kuznetsov, Askar Tsyganov +8RankingSequential Recommendation

    HSE University Moscow, Russian Federation

  37. Distributional Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search for Uncertainty-Aware Retrieval

    Jun 3, 2026Olivier JeunenRetrieval LayerApproximate Nearest-Neighbor Search

    aampe · Antwerp, Belgium

  38. Taiji: Pareto Optimal Policy Optimization with Semantics-IDs Trade-off for Industrial LLM-Enhanced Recommendation

    Jun 2, 2026Yuecheng Li, Zeyu Song, Jing Yao +3Sequential RecommendationRetrievers

    Kuaishou Technology Beijing, China · Unaffiliated Beijing, China

  39. BAHSD: Bridging the Long-tail Gap via Adaptive Distillation in Black-box Sequential Recommendation

    Jun 2, 2026Xi Zhou, Famin Wu, Mingming Li +4Multimodal Recommendation ModelSequential Recommendation

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China

  40. Model Monotonicity in Autobidding Auctions: When Do Better Predictions Lead to Better Outcomes?

    May 29, 2026Ashwinkumar BadanidiyuruFirst-Price AuctionsBidding

    Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.

  41. ProRL: Effective Reinforcement Learning for Proactive Recommendation via Rectified Policy Gradient Estimation

    May 27, 2026Hongru Hou, Tiehua Mei, Denghui Geng +5Sequential RecommendationReward Functions

  42. Generative Spatiotemporal Intent Sequence Recommendation via Implicit Reasoning in Amap

    May 27, 2026Sicong Wang, Ruiting Dong, Yue Liu +7Large Language Model PlanningSpatio-Temporal Reasoning

    AMAP, Alibaba Group, Beijing, China

  43. Prominence-Stratified Failure Modes in Retrieval-Augmented Commercial Recommendation: A 37,000-Run Audit

    May 22, 2026Will Jack, Noah Lehman, Keller Maloney +1Brand-As-MemoryRecommendation

    Unusual

  44. LLM Retrieval for Stable and Predictable Ad Recommendations

    May 21, 2026Vinodh Kumar Sunkara, Satheeshkumar Karuppusamy, Hangjun Xu +13AdsSequential Recommendation

    Meta Platforms, Inc. Menlo Park and New York, USA

  45. SAPO: Step-Aligned Policy Optimization for Reasoning-Based Generative Recommendation

    May 17, 2026Zaiyi Zheng, Guanghui Min, Yaochen Zhu +4Sequential RecommendationFrictive Policy Optimization

    University of Virginia · 2Nokia

  46. Don't Let Bandit Feedback Pull Continual LLM-Recommender Updates Off Target

    May 17, 2026Taesan Kim, Hyeongjun Yun, Jaegul Choo +1Sequential RecommendationContextual Bandit Framework

    1SK Telecom · 2KAIST

  47. Echoes in Filter Bubble: Diagnosing and Curing Popularity Bias in Generative Recommenders

    May 16, 2026Jun Yin, Bangguo Zhu, Peng Huo +5Sequential RecommendationRecommendation Quality

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China · National Super Computing Center, Tianjin, China · Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Macau, China +1

  48. TurboGR: An Accelerated Training System for Large-Scale Generative Recommendation

    May 13, 2026Huichao Chai, Zhixin Wu, Xuemiao Li +8Sequential RecommendationNeural Processing Units

    Huawei

  49. Intent-Driven Semantic ID Generation for Grounded Conversational News Recommendation

    May 8, 2026Hongyang Su, Beibei Kong, Lei Cheng +3Sequential RecommendationText Corpora

    Platform and Content Group, Tencent, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China

  50. An Embarrassingly Simple Graph Heuristic Reveals Shortcut-Solvable Benchmarks for Sequential Recommendation

    May 8, 2026Haoyu Han, Li Ma, Hanbing Wang +9Sequential RecommendationHeuristics

    Michigan State University · Airbnb, Inc.

  51. A Production-Ready RL Framework for Personalized Utility Tuning with Pareto Sweeping in Pinterest Recommender Systems

    May 8, 2026Yichu Zhou, Mehdi Ben Ayed, Lin Yang +9Sequential RecommendationPareto Frontier

    Pinterest Inc. Seattle, Washington, USA · Pinterest Inc. New York City, New York, USA · Pinterest Inc. San Francisco, California, USA +1

  52. Investigating the Effects of Different Levels of User Control in an Interactive Educational Recommender System

    May 2, 2026Qurat Ul Ain, Mohamed Amine Chatti, William Kana Tsoplefack +2Sequential RecommendationControlled Comparison

    Social Computing Group, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  53. The Bandit's Blind Spot: The Critical Role of User State Representation in Recommender Systems

    Apr 29, 2026Pedro R. Pires, Gregorio F. Azevedo, Rafael T. Sereicikas +2Sequential RecommendationBandits

    Federal University of São Carlos Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil

  54. Spectral bandits

    Apr 28, 2026Tomáš Kocák, Rémi Munos, Branislav Kveton +2BanditsSequential Recommendation

    ENS de Lyon, 15 Parvis Ren´e Descartes, 69342 Lyon, France · Inria Lille – Nord Europe, SequeL team · DeepMind Paris, 14 Rue de Londres, 75009 Paris, France +2

  55. MTServe: Efficient Serving for Generative Recommendation Models with Hierarchical Caches

    Apr 24, 2026Xin Wang, Chi Ma, Shaobin Chen +14Sequential RecommendationGraphics Processing Unit Memory

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University · Meituan · Nvidia

  56. ReCast: Recasting Learning Signals for Reinforcement Learning in Generative Recommendation

    Apr 24, 2026Peiyan Zhang, Hanmo Liu, Chengxuan Tong +3Sequential RecommendationGroup-Based Reinforcement Learning

    1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  57. CAST: Modeling Semantic-Level Transitions for Complementary-Aware Sequential Recommendation

    Apr 21, 2026Qian Zhang, Lech Szymanski, Haibo Zhang +1Multimodal Recommendation ModelSequential Recommendation

    School of Computing, University of Otago · Dunedin, New Zealand · University of New South Wales +1

  58. GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation

    Apr 16, 2026Yanyan Zou, Junbo Qi, Lunsong Huang +7Sequential RecommendationRecommendation

    JD.com Beijing, China · Waseda University Tokyo, Japan

  59. xGR: Efficient Generative Recommendation Serving at Scale

    Dec 12, 2025Qingxiao Sun, Tongxuan Liu, Shen Zhang +13Sequential RecommendationBeam Search

    Beihang University · JD Company · University of Science and Technology Beijing +1

  60. The Best of the Two Worlds: Harmonizing Semantic and Hash IDs for Sequential Recommendation

    Dec 11, 2025Ziwei Liu, Yejing Wang, Wanyu Wang +6Sequential RecommendationText Embeddings

    City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China · Tongji University Shanghai, China · Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an, China +3