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cs.IR2026

CAMIE: Co-Engagement-Aware Multimodal Item Embeddings for Snap Dynamic Product Ads Retrieval

Xiaodong Liu, Siman Wang, Congfei Zhang +9

Item-to-item (I2I) retrieval is a core primitive in large-scale recommendation and advertising systems. In production Snap Dynamic Product Ads (DPA), I2I retrieval faces two challe…

cs.IR2026

SetMIR: Multi-Interest Retrieval as Set Prediction

Xiaodong Liu, Congfei Zhang, Hsiang-wei Chao +13

Embedding-based retrieval is at the core of industrial recommender systems, but a single user embedding is often too limited to capture a user's diverse interests. Multi-interest r…

cs.IR2026

SMART: LLM-Augmented Hybrid Retrieval for Dynamic Product Ads

Congfei Zhang, Jingxiao Ma, Xiaodong Liu +14

Dynamic Product Ads (DPA) require retrieving relevant items from multi-million product catalogs, balancing two competing objectives: retargeting (re-surfacing known interests) and…

cs.IR2026

EGR: Embedding-Native Generative Retrieval with a Shared LLM

Xiaodong Liu, Congfei Zhang, Hsiang-wei Chao +13

Generative retrieval is increasingly popular in large-scale recommendation and advertising systems, yet current methods introduce practical complications. Semantic-ID methods rely…

cs.IR2021

Hybrid Encoder: Towards Efficient and Precise Native AdsRecommendation via Hybrid Transformer Encoding Networks

Junhan Yang, Zheng Liu, Bowen Jin +7

Transformer encoding networks have been proved to be a powerful tool of understanding natural languages. They are playing a critical role in native ads service, which facilitates t…

cs.IR2021

Multi-Interest-Aware User Modeling for Large-Scale Sequential Recommendations

Jianxun Lian, Iyad Batal, Zheng Liu +4

Precise user modeling is critical for online personalized recommendation services. Generally, users' interests are diverse and are not limited to a single aspect, which is particul…