8 papers
RAG: Retriever Routing for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Tong Zhao, Yutao Zhu, Yucheng Tian +1
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone for knowledge-intensive tasks. However, the efficacy of RAG is often bottlenecked by the ``one-size-fits-all'' retriev…
Semantic IDs for Recommender Systems at Snapchat: Use Cases, Technical Challenges, and Design Choices
Clark Mingxuan Ju, Tong Zhao, Leonardo Neves +15
Effective item identifiers (IDs) are an important component for recommender systems (RecSys) in practice, and are commonly adopted in many use cases such as retrieval and ranking.…
FlexRec: Adapting LLM-based Recommenders for Flexible Needs via Reinforcement Learning
Yijun Pan, Weikang Qiu, Qiyao Ma +4
Modern recommender systems must adapt to dynamic, need-specific objectives for diverse recommendation scenarios, yet most traditional recommenders are optimized for a single static…
Exploiting ID-Text Complementarity via Ensembling for Sequential Recommendation
Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Clark Mingxuan Ju +4
Modern Sequential Recommendation (SR) models commonly utilize modality features to represent items, motivated in large part by recent advancements in language and vision modeling.…
MemRec: Collaborative Memory-Augmented Agentic Recommender System
Weixin Chen, Yuhan Zhao, Jingyuan Huang +6
The evolution of recommender systems has shifted from traditional collaborative filtering to LLM-based agentic systems, which rely on semantic user and item memories to make predic…
Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs: A Practitioner's Handbook
Clark Mingxuan Ju, Liam Collins, Leonardo Neves +4
Generative recommendation (GR) has gained increasing attention for its promising performance compared to traditional models. A key factor contributing to the success of GR is the s…