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20242026
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9 papers

cs.IR2026

From Valid to Useful: Post-Verification Acquisition for Recursive Self-Improving Recommendation

Tonmoy Hasan, Taylor Foust, Shao Tang +6

Sequential recommenders can generate synthetic interaction sequences and retrain on the augmented corpus in a recursive self-improvement loop. To limit error accumulation, current…

cs.IR2026

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.…

cs.LG2026

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.…

cs.IR2025

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…

cs.LG2025

Learning Along the Arrow of Time: Hyperbolic Geometry for Backward-Compatible Representation Learning

Ngoc Bui, Menglin Yang, Runjin Chen +5

Backward compatible representation learning enables updated models to integrate seamlessly with existing ones, avoiding to reprocess stored data. Despite recent advances, existing…

cs.IR2025

Revisiting Self-attention for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation

Clark Mingxuan Ju, Leonardo Neves, Bhuvesh Kumar +7

Sequential recommendation is a popular paradigm in modern recommender systems. In particular, one challenging problem in this space is cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR)…

cs.IR2025

Learning Universal User Representations Leveraging Cross-domain User Intent at Snapchat

Clark Mingxuan Ju, Leonardo Neves, Bhuvesh Kumar +11

The development of powerful user representations is a key factor in the success of recommender systems (RecSys). Online platforms employ a range of RecSys techniques to personalize…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing Item Tokenization for Generative Recommendation through Self-Improvement

Runjin Chen, Mingxuan Ju, Ngoc Bui +7

Generative recommendation systems, driven by large language models (LLMs), present an innovative approach to predicting user preferences by modeling items as token sequences and ge…

cs.IR2024

GraphHash: Graph Clustering Enables Parameter Efficiency in Recommender Systems

Xinyi Wu, Donald Loveland, Runjin Chen +7

Deep recommender systems rely heavily on large embedding tables to handle high-cardinality categorical features such as user/item identifiers, and face significant memory constrain…