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Publications (6)

cs.IR2026

Beyond Interleaving: Causal Attention Reformulations for Generative Recommender Systems

Hailing Cheng

Generative Recommender Systems (GR) increasingly model user behavior as a sequence generation task by interleaving item and action tokens. While effective, this formulation introdu…

cs.LG2026

Scalable Hyperparameter-Divergent Ensemble Training with Automatic Learning Rate Exploration for Large Models

Hailing Cheng, Tao Huang, Chen Zhu +1

Training large neural networks with data-parallel stochastic gradient descent allocates N GPU replicas to compute effectively identical updates -- a practice that leaves the rich s…

cs.IR2026

An Industrial-Scale Sequential Recommender for LinkedIn Feed Ranking

Lars Hertel, Gaurav Srivastava, Syed Ali Naqvi +21

LinkedIn Feed enables professionals worldwide to discover relevant content, build connections, and share knowledge at scale. We present Feed Sequential Recommender (Feed SR), a tra…

cs.AI2026

Learning to Rotate: Temporal and Semantic Rotary Encoding for Sequential Modeling

Hailing Cheng, Daqi Sun, Xinyu Lu

Every Transformer architecture dedicates enormous capacity to learning rich representations in semantic embedding space -- yet the rotation manifold acted upon by Rotary Positional…

cs.IR2026

Isotonic Layer: A Unified Framework for Recommendation Calibration and Debiasing

Hailing Cheng, Yafang Yang, Hemeng Tao +1

Model calibration and debiasing are fundamental yet operationally expensive challenges in large-scale recommendation systems. Existing approaches treat them as separate problems re…

cs.LG2024

LiRank: Industrial Large Scale Ranking Models at LinkedIn

Fedor Borisyuk, Mingzhou Zhou, Qingquan Song +31

We present LiRank, a large-scale ranking framework at LinkedIn that brings to production state-of-the-art modeling architectures and optimization methods. We unveil several modelin…