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20242026
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7 papers

cs.IR2026

When Text-as-Vision Meets Semantic IDs in Generative Recommendation: An Empirical Study

Shutong Qiao, Wei Yuan, Tong Chen +3

Semantic ID learning is a key interface in Generative Recommendation (GR) models, mapping items to discrete identifiers grounded in side information, most commonly via a pretrained…

cs.IR2025

ProEx: A Unified Framework Leveraging Large Language Model with Profile Extrapolation for Recommendation

Yi Zhang, Yiwen Zhang, Yu Wang +2

The powerful text understanding and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have brought new vitality to general recommendation with implicit feedback. One possible…

cs.DB2025

Relational Database Distillation: From Structured Tables to Condensed Graph Data

Xinyi Gao, Jingxi Zhang, Lijian Chen +3

Relational databases (RDBs) underpin the majority of global data management systems, where information is structured into multiple interdependent tables. To effectively use the kno…

cs.IR2025

Towards Distribution Matching between Collaborative and Language Spaces for Generative Recommendation

Yi Zhang, Yiwen Zhang, Yu Wang +2

Generative recommendation aims to learn the underlying generative process over the entire item set to produce recommendations for users. Although it leverages non-linear probabilis…

cs.LG2024

Progressive Generalization Risk Reduction for Data-Efficient Causal Effect Estimation

Hechuan Wen, Tong Chen, Guanhua Ye +3

Causal effect estimation (CEE) provides a crucial tool for predicting the unobserved counterfactual outcome for an entity. As CEE relaxes the requirement for ``perfect'' counterfac…

cs.LG2024

Contrastive Graph Condensation: Advancing Data Versatility through Self-Supervised Learning

Xinyi Gao, Yayong Li, Tong Chen +3

With the increasing computation of training graph neural networks (GNNs) on large-scale graphs, graph condensation (GC) has emerged as a promising solution to synthesize a compact,…