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cs.IR2026

Embedding Subspace Partitioning for Dynamic Multi-Objective Retrieval

Shaobo Zhang, Alice Leung, Yunxiang Ren +13

Modern industrial recommender systems must optimize across competing objectives, balancing semantic relevance with business metrics such as engagement and revenue. While bi-encoder…

cs.AI2026

Efficient GPU Retrieval for Semantic Search

Dhritiman Das, Chujie Zheng, Ronak Kaoshik +18

Semantic Search on LinkedIn must retrieve relevant profiles from a corpus of hundreds of millions in response to natural-language queries such as "a fintech founder in Berlin who w…

cs.CL2026

Grounded Token Initialization for New Vocabulary in LMs for Generative Recommendation

Daiwei Chen, Zhoutong Fu, Chengming Jiang +12

Language models (LMs) are increasingly extended with new learnable vocabulary tokens for domain-specific tasks, such as Semantic-ID tokens in generative recommendation. The standar…

cs.IR2026

High Fidelity Textual User Representation over Heterogeneous Sources via Reinforcement Learning

Rajat Arora, Ye Tao, Jianqiang Shen +7

Effective personalization on large-scale job platforms requires modeling members based on heterogeneous textual sources, including profiles, professional data, and search activity…

cs.IR2026

Semantic Search At LinkedIn

Fedor Borisyuk, Sriram Vasudevan, Muchen Wu +71

Semantic search with large language models (LLMs) enables retrieval by meaning rather than keyword overlap, but scaling it requires major inference efficiency advances. We present…

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.LG2026

CADET: Context-Conditioned Ads CTR Prediction With a Decoder-Only Transformer

David Pardoe, Neil Daftary, Miro Furtado +20

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is fundamental to online advertising systems. While Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) with explicit feature interactions have long dom…

cs.IR2026

MixLM: High-Throughput and Effective LLM Ranking via Text-Embedding Mix-Interaction

Guoyao Li, Ran He, Shusen Jing +21

Large language models (LLMs) excel at capturing semantic nuances and therefore show impressive relevance ranking performance in modern recommendation and search systems. However, t…

cs.IR2025

Scaling Up Efficient Small Language Models Serving and Deployment for Semantic Job Search

Kayhan Behdin, Qingquan Song, Sriram Vasudevan +17

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive quality when applied to predictive tasks such as relevance ranking and semantic search. However, deployment of such LLMs r…

cs.LG2025

Generative Sequential Notification Optimization via Multi-Objective Decision Transformers

Borja Ocejo, Ruofan Wang, Ke Liu +7

Notifications are an important communication channel for delivering timely and relevant information. Optimizing their delivery involves addressing complex sequential decision-makin…

cs.LG2025

Large Scalable Cross-Domain Graph Neural Networks for Personalized Notification at LinkedIn

Shihai He, Julie Choi, Tianqi Li +8

Notification recommendation systems are critical to driving user engagement on professional platforms like LinkedIn. Designing such systems involves integrating heterogeneous signa…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Scaling Down, Serving Fast: Compressing and Deploying Efficient LLMs for Recommendation Systems

Kayhan Behdin, Ata Fatahibaarzi, Qingquan Song +17

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of industrial applications, from search and recommendation systems to generative tasks. Al…

cs.LG2025

From Features to Transformers: Redefining Ranking for Scalable Impact

Fedor Borisyuk, Lars Hertel, Ganesh Parameswaran +14

We present LiGR, a large-scale ranking framework developed at LinkedIn that brings state-of-the-art transformer-based modeling architectures into production. We introduce a modifie…

cs.LG2024

Efficient user history modeling with amortized inference for deep learning recommendation models

Lars Hertel, Neil Daftary, Fedor Borisyuk +2

We study user history modeling via Transformer encoders in deep learning recommendation models (DLRM). Such architectures can significantly improve recommendation quality, but usua…

cs.LG2024

LiNR: Model Based Neural Retrieval on GPUs at LinkedIn

Fedor Borisyuk, Qingquan Song, Mingzhou Zhou +11

This paper introduces LiNR, LinkedIn's large-scale, GPU-based retrieval system. LiNR supports a billion-sized index on GPU models. We discuss our experiences and challenges in crea…

cs.IR2024

LiMAML: Personalization of Deep Recommender Models via Meta Learning

Ruofan Wang, Prakruthi Prabhakar, Gaurav Srivastava +10

In the realm of recommender systems, the ubiquitous adoption of deep neural networks has emerged as a dominant paradigm for modeling diverse business objectives. As user bases cont…

cs.IR2024

Learning to Retrieve for Job Matching

Jianqiang Shen, Yuchin Juan, Shaobo Zhang +21

Web-scale search systems typically tackle the scalability challenge with a two-step paradigm: retrieval and ranking. The retrieval step, also known as candidate selection, often in…

cs.LG2024

LinkSAGE: Optimizing Job Matching Using Graph Neural Networks

Ping Liu, Haichao Wei, Xiaochen Hou +11

We present LinkSAGE, an innovative framework that integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) into large-scale personalized job matching systems, designed to address the complex dynami…

cs.LG2024

LiGNN: Graph Neural Networks at LinkedIn

Fedor Borisyuk, Shihai He, Yunbo Ouyang +20

In this paper, we present LiGNN, a deployed large-scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) Framework. We share our insight on developing and deployment of GNNs at large scale at LinkedIn…

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…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

MultiSlot ReRanker: A Generic Model-based Re-Ranking Framework in Recommendation Systems

Qiang Charles Xiao, Ajith Muralidharan, Birjodh Tiwana +4

In this paper, we propose a generic model-based re-ranking framework, MultiSlot ReRanker, which simultaneously optimizes relevance, diversity, and freshness. Specifically, our Sequ…