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12 papers

cs.IR2026

GRACE: Generative Recommender Acceleration Engine for Real-Time Ads Retrieval

Zhou Fang, Yuhang Huang, Ang Zhang +12

Productionizing generative recommenders for high-volume, real-time ads retrieval creates two serving challenges: eligibility, ensuring that each generated ad is eligible for the re…

cs.IR2026

Diffusion-GR2: Diffusion Generative Reasoning Re-ranker

Zhuoxuan Zhang, Kangqi Ni, Yuhang Chen +12

Generative reasoning re-rankers achieve strong recommendation accuracy by emitting a chain-of-thought before re-ordering a candidate list, but they are slow at inference: an autore…

cs.CL2026

Self-Guided Test-Time Training for Long-Context LLMs

Xinyu Zhu, Zhe Xu, Xiaohan Wei +10

Long-context processing has become increasingly important for large language models (LLMs), but simply extending the context window does not guarantee effective utilization of long…

cs.IR2026

SCOReD: Student-Aware CoT Optimization for Recommendation Distillation

Haz Sameen Shahgir, Yufei Li, Xiaohan Wei +8

Chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation in the recommendation domain is a necessary precursor to RL training, but raw teacher traces are ill-suited to this task. Large teachers approac…

cs.IR2026

GR2 Technical Report

Yufei Li, Zaiwei Zhang, Mingfu Liang +67

Industrial recommendation systems serve billions of users through a multi-stage funnel -- retrieval, early-stage ranking, and re-ranking -- where the final re-ranking step dispropo…

cs.IR2026

End-to-End Dynamic Sparsity for Resource-Adaptive LLM Inference

Yuhang Chen, Jinhao Duan, Ruichen Zhang +11

Large Language Models (LLMs) inference is typically deployed under a static resource assumption, where models execute a fixed computational graph regardless of the runtime environm…

cs.IR2026

Bifocal Diffusion Language Models: Asymmetric Bidirectional Context for Parallel Generation

Yuhang Chen, Xianfeng Wu, Jinhao Duan +11

Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) recover masked tokens in parallel, offering significant speedups over autoregressive (AR) generation. However, such promising frameworks…

cs.CL2026

Learning Evidence Highlighting for Frozen LLMs

Shaoang Li, Yanhang Shi, Yufei Li +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) can reason well, yet often miss decisive evidence when it is buried in long, noisy contexts. We introduce HiLight, an Evidence Emphasis framework that…

cs.LG2026

Feed m Birds with One Scone: Accelerating Multi-task Gradient Balancing via Bi-level Optimization

Xuxing Chen, Yun He, Jiayi Xu +9

In machine learning, the goal of multi-task learning (MTL) is to optimize multiple objectives together. Recent works, for example, Multiple Gradient Descent Algorithm (MGDA) and it…

cs.IR2026

GR2: Generative Reasoning Re-ranker

Mingfu Liang, Yufei Li, Jay Xu +20

Recent studies increasingly explore Large Language Models (LLMs) as a new paradigm for recommendation systems due to their scalability and world knowledge. However, existing work h…

cs.IR2025

Meta Lattice: Model Space Redesign for Cost-Effective Industry-Scale Ads Recommendations

Liang Luo, Yuxin Chen, Zhengyu Zhang +39

The rapidly evolving landscape of products, surfaces, policies, and regulations poses significant challenges for deploying state-of-the-art recommendation models at industry scale,…

cs.IR2025

Enhancing Embedding Representation Stability in Recommendation Systems with Semantic ID

Carolina Zheng, Minhui Huang, Dmitrii Pedchenko +15

The exponential growth of online content has posed significant challenges to ID-based models in industrial recommendation systems, ranging from extremely high cardinality and dynam…