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most citedThink before Recommendation: Autonomous Reasoning-enhanced Recommender

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cs.IR2026

SPARC: Sequence-aware Progressive Attribute Routing and Compression Framework for Generative Recommendation

Chang Liu, Changfa Wu, Hui Qian +5

Generative recommendation tokenizes items as discrete Semantic IDs (SIDs) and autoregressively generates target items from users' historical SID sequences. Although existing SIDs i…

cs.IR2026

TransRetrieval: Scaling Up Transformer-Based Retrieval for Industrial Recommendation

Zhifei Zheng, Yunfei Liu, Bin Liu +7

Applying scaling laws to recommendation retrieval is hindered by feature heterogeneity: naively stacking Transformer layers yields diminishing returns because heterogeneous fields…

cs.IR2026

Native Multimodal Representation Learning for Click-Through Rate Prediction in E-Commerce Scenarios

Chao Yi, Feifan Yang, Jiawei Feng +4

Multimodal representations have been widely adopted in industrial e-commerce recommendation systems. Due to their strong semantic understanding and generalization capabilities, the…

cs.IR2026

Towards Faithful Simulation of Human Shopping Behavior

Jiakai Tang, Yan Mi, Jing Yu +9

Simulating realistic user shopping behavior underpins offline evaluation and reinforcement learning in e-commerce scenarios. While recent LLM- and VLM-based simulators have made en…

cs.CL2026

Can Large Language Models Identify Meaningful Touchpoints in Conversion Attribution?

Jinqi Wu, Sishuo Chen, Zhangming Chan +9

Touchpoint selection in conversion attribution, namely identifying meaningful touchpoints contributing to conversions, is essential for e-commerce recommendation and online adverti…

cs.IR2026

DREAM Technical Report

Bin Zhang, Bowen Zheng, Chao Yi +74

Industrial recommender systems commonly use cascaded retrieval, ranking, and re-ranking pipelines. Although efficient, these pipelines fragment information and objectives across mo…

cs.IR2026

Learning from the Future: Privileged Self-Distillation for Sequential Recommendation

Jiakai Tang, Yang Zhang, See-Kiong Ng +4

Sequential recommenders are commonly trained with one-hot next-item labels under a causal (prefix-only) objective aligned with inference. While deployment-compatible, this supervis…

cs.IR2026

LoopMemGR: From Behavior Logs to Evolving Memory for Generative Recommendation

Hui Qian, Changfa Wu, Chang Liu +6

Generative recommendation formulates next-item prediction as conditional autoregressive generation over discrete Semantic IDs, enabling end-to-end recommendation over large-scale i…

cs.LG2026

MAC: A Conversion Rate Prediction Benchmark Featuring Labels Under Multiple Attribution Mechanisms

Jinqi Wu, Sishuo Chen, Zhangming Chan +9

Multi-attribution learning (MAL), which enhances model performance by learning from conversion labels yielded by multiple attribution mechanisms, has emerged as a promising learnin…

cs.IR2025

MUSE: A Simple Yet Effective Multimodal Search-Based Framework for Lifelong User Interest Modeling

Bin Wu, Feifan Yang, Zhangming Chan +8

Lifelong user interest modeling is crucial for industrial recommender systems, yet existing approaches rely predominantly on ID-based features, suffering from poor generalization o…

cs.LG2025

AIF: Asynchronous Inference Framework for Cost-Effective Pre-Ranking

Zhi Kou, Xiang-Rong Sheng, Shuguang Han +5

In industrial recommendation systems, pre-ranking models based on deep neural networks (DNNs) commonly adopt a sequential execution framework: feature fetching and model forward co…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Think before Recommendation: Autonomous Reasoning-enhanced Recommender

Xiaoyu Kong, Junguang Jiang, Bin Liu +6

The core task of recommender systems is to learn user preferences from historical user-item interactions. With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), recent researc…

cs.LG2025

See Beyond a Single View: Multi-Attribution Learning Leads to Better Conversion Rate Prediction

Sishuo Chen, Zhangming Chan, Xiang-Rong Sheng +6

Conversion rate (CVR) prediction is a core component of online advertising systems, where the attribution mechanisms-rules for allocating conversion credit across user touchpoints-…

cs.IR2025

Large Language Model as Universal Retriever in Industrial-Scale Recommender System

Junguang Jiang, Yanwen Huang, Bin Liu +6

In real-world recommender systems, different retrieval objectives are typically addressed using task-specific datasets with carefully designed model architectures. We demonstrate t…

cs.AI2024

WiS Platform: Enhancing Evaluation of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems Through Game-Based Analysis

Chengwei Hu, Jianhui Zheng, Yancheng He +7

Recent advancements in autonomous multi-agent systems (MAS) based on large language models (LLMs) have enhanced the application scenarios and improved the capability of LLMs to han…

cs.IR2024

Enhancing Taobao Display Advertising with Multimodal Representations: Challenges, Approaches and Insights

Xiang-Rong Sheng, Feifan Yang, Litong Gong +10

Despite the recognized potential of multimodal data to improve model accuracy, many large-scale industrial recommendation systems, including Taobao display advertising system, pred…

cs.IR2023

Robust Representation Learning for Unified Online Top-K Recommendation

Minfang Lu, Yuchen Jiang, Huihui Dong +9

In large-scale industrial e-commerce, the efficiency of an online recommendation system is crucial in delivering highly relevant item/content advertising that caters to diverse bus…

cs.IR2023

Rec4Ad: A Free Lunch to Mitigate Sample Selection Bias for Ads CTR Prediction in Taobao

Jingyue Gao, Shuguang Han, Han Zhu +4

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction serves as a fundamental component in online advertising. A common practice is to train a CTR model on advertisement (ad) impressions with user f…

cs.IR2023

COPR: Consistency-Oriented Pre-Ranking for Online Advertising

Zhishan Zhao, Jingyue Gao, Yu Zhang +8

Cascading architecture has been widely adopted in large-scale advertising systems to balance efficiency and effectiveness. In this architecture, the pre-ranking model is expected t…

cs.IR2022

Adaptive Domain Interest Network for Multi-domain Recommendation

Yuchen Jiang, Qi Li, Han Zhu +5

Industrial recommender systems usually hold data from multiple business scenarios and are expected to provide recommendation services for these scenarios simultaneously. In the ret…

cs.IR2022

WSLRec: Weakly Supervised Learning for Neural Sequential Recommendation Models

Jingwei Zhuo, Bin Liu, Xiang Li +2

Learning the user-item relevance hidden in implicit feedback data plays an important role in modern recommender systems. Neural sequential recommendation models, which formulates l…

cs.IR2022

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search under Neural Similarity Metric for Large-Scale Recommendation

Rihan Chen, Bin Liu, Han Zhu +8

Model-based methods for recommender systems have been studied extensively for years. Modern recommender systems usually resort to 1) representation learning models which define use…

cs.LG2022

MBCT: Tree-Based Feature-Aware Binning for Individual Uncertainty Calibration

Siguang Huang, Yunli Wang, Lili Mou +4

Most machine learning classifiers only concern classification accuracy, while certain applications (such as medical diagnosis, meteorological forecasting, and computation advertisi…