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most citedUnified Language-Vision Pretraining in LLM with Dynamic Discrete Visual Tokenization

3 citations · 5 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.LG2026

PRQ-KMeans: Projection Residual Quantization for Semantic ID Tokenization

Yunxiao Luo, Siyuan Wang, Ben Chen +2

Semantic identifiers (SIDs) represent entities as hierarchical token sequences for generative retrieval and recommendation. Residual-quantization tokenizers construct these sequenc…

cs.AI2026

SR-Agent: An Experience-Driven Agentic Framework for Post-Ranking Strategy Refinement in E-Commerce Recommendation

Hanchen Yang, Kaiwen Yang, Junpeng Zhuang +7

User experience is a first-class objective in industrial e-commerce recommender systems (RS). Post-ranking strategies, which govern diversity, similarity, and exposure over a ranke…

cs.IR2026

OneRetrieval: Unifying Multi-Branch E-commerce Retrieval with an Editable Generative Model

Xuxin Zhang, Ben Chen, Yue Lv +13

Industrial e-commerce search serves hundreds of millions of items through a multi-branch retrieval stage fused by hand-tuned merging without joint optimization. Generative retrieva…

cs.IR2026

OneBar: An End-to-End Content-Grounded Generative Query Recommendation Framework for E-Commerce Video Feeds

Yao Tang, Ying Yang, Ben Chen +5

Short-video platforms now expose clickable search entries beneath the video player, enabling users to easily express content-induced search intent. However, conventional query reco…

cs.AI2026

Plan Before Search: Search Agents Need Plan

Zhipeng Qian, Zihan Liang, Yufei Ma +7

Training large language models as retrieval-augmented reasoning agents typically combines reinforcement learning with an SFT cold start distilled from a stronger model. However, th…

cs.AI2026

SVFSearch: A Multimodal Knowledge-Intensive Benchmark for Short-Video Frame Search in the Gaming Vertical Domain

Lingtao Mao, Huangyu Dai, Xinyu Sun +4

Multimodal large language models are increasingly used as agent backbones that understand multimodal inputs, plan retrieval actions, invoke external tools, and reason over retrieve…

cs.IR2026

TIGER-FG: Text-Guided Implicit Fine-Grained Grounding for E-commerce Retrieval

Xinyu Sun, Huangyu Dai, Lingtao Mao +5

E-commerce image search often takes a cropped image as the query, while each candidate is represented by full item images and structured text. This image-to-multimodal retrieval se…

cs.AI2026

SD-Search: On-Policy Hindsight Self-Distillation for Search-Augmented Reasoning

Yufei Ma, Zihan Liang, Ben Chen +6

Search-augmented reasoning agents interleave internal reasoning with calls to an external retriever, and their performance relies on the quality of each issued query. However, unde…

cs.AI2026

Scale over Preference: The Impact of AI-Generated Content on Online Content Ecology

Tianhao Shi, Yang Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhao +8

The rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) is fundamentally restructuring online content ecologies, necessitating a rigorous examination of its beh…

cs.AI2026

Bian Que: An Agentic Framework with Flexible Skill Arrangement for Online System Operations

Bochao Liu, Zhipeng Qian, Yang Zhao +10

Operating and maintaining (O&M) large-scale online engine systems (eg, search, recommendation and advertising) demands substantial human effort for release monitoring, alert respon…

cs.AI2026

IG-Search: Step-Level Information Gain Rewards for Search-Augmented Reasoning

Zihan Liang, Yufei Ma, Ben Chen +6

Reinforcement learning has emerged as an effective paradigm for training large language models to perform search-augmented reasoning. However, existing approaches rely on trajector…

cs.IR2026

OneSearch-V2: The Latent Reasoning Enhanced Self-distillation Generative Search Framework

Ben Chen, Siyuan Wang, Yufei Ma +20

Generative Retrieval (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for modern search systems. Compared to multi-stage cascaded architecture, it offers advantages such as end-to-end join…

cs.IR2026

Awakening Dormant Users: Generative Recommendation with Counterfactual Functional Role Reasoning

Huishi Luo, Shuokai Li, Hanchen Yang +10

Awakening dormant users, who remain engaged but exhibit low conversion, is a pivotal driver for incremental GMV growth in large-scale e-commerce platforms. However, existing approa…

cs.IR2026

KuaiSearch: An E-Commerce Search Dataset with Authentic Queries and Product Texts for Recall, Ranking, and Relevance

Yupeng Li, Ben Chen, Mingyue Cheng +7

E-commerce search connects user needs with massive product inventories, yet real-world systems face challenges from ambiguous queries, noisy product texts, and diverse user prefere…

cs.CV2026

CSMCIR: CoT-Enhanced Symmetric Alignment with Memory Bank for Composed Image Retrieval

Zhipeng Qian, Zihan Liang, Yufei Ma +7

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables users to search for target images using both a reference image and manipulation text, offering substantial advantages over single-modality re…

cs.CV2025

UniDGF: A Unified Detection-to-Generation Framework for Hierarchical Object Visual Recognition

Xinyu Nan, Lingtao Mao, Huangyu Dai +8

Achieving visual semantic understanding requires a unified framework that simultaneously handles object detection, category prediction, and attribute recognition. However, current…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

OneSearch: A Preliminary Exploration of the Unified End-to-End Generative Framework for E-commerce Search

Ben Chen, Xian Guo, Siyuan Wang +25

Traditional e-commerce search systems employ multi-stage cascading architectures (MCA) that progressively filter items through recall, pre-ranking, and ranking stages. While effect…

cs.LG2025

GRADE: Personalized Multi-Task Fusion via Group-relative Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Dirichlet Exploration

Tingfeng Hong, Pingye Ren, Xinlong Xiao +4

Balancing multiple objectives is critical for user satisfaction in modern recommender and search systems, yet current Multi-Task Fusion (MTF) methods rely on static, manually-tuned…

cs.IR2025

Towards Context-aware Reasoning-enhanced Generative Searching in E-commerce

Zhiding Liu, Ben Chen, Mingyue Cheng +6

Search-based recommendation is one of the most critical application scenarios in e-commerce platforms. Users' complex search contexts--such as spatiotemporal factors, historical in…

cs.IR2025

COINS: SemantiC Ids Enhanced COLd Item RepresentatioN for Click-through Rate Prediction in E-commerce Search

Qihang Zhao, Zhongbo Sun, Xiaoyang Zheng +6

With the rise of modern search and recommendation platforms, insufficient collaborative information of cold-start items exacerbates the Matthew effect of existing platform items, c…

cs.CV2025

OneVision: An End-to-End Generative Framework for Multi-view E-commerce Vision Search

Zexin Zheng, Huangyu Dai, Lingtao Mao +8

Traditional vision search, similar to search and recommendation systems, follows the multi-stage cascading architecture (MCA) paradigm to balance efficiency and conversion. Specifi…

cs.IR2025

Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate Prediction

Qihang Zhao, Xiaoyang Zheng, Ben Chen +2

User behavior sequences in search systems resemble "interest fossils", capturing genuine intent yet eroded by exposure bias, category drift, and contextual noise. Current methods p…

cs.IR2025

InfoGain-RAG: Boosting Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Document Information Gain-based Reranking and Filtering

Zihan Wang, Zihan Liang, Zhou Shao +7

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising approach to address key limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as hallucination, outdated knowledge, and…

cs.IR2025

DiffusionGS: Generative Search with Query Conditioned Diffusion in Kuaishou

Qinyao Li, Xiaoyang Zheng, Qihang Zhao +6

Personalized search ranking systems are critical for driving engagement and revenue in modern e-commerce and short-video platforms. While existing methods excel at estimating users…