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cs.IR2026

Token Factory: Efficiently Integrating Diverse Signals into Large Recommendation Models

Xilun Chen, Shao-Chuan Wang, Baykal Cakici +6

Large Recommendation Models (LRMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in industry-scale recommendation tasks. However, holistically integrating traditional signals into these…

cs.IR2026

Tokens are All You Need: Dual-purpose Semantic IDs for Achieving LLM-Level I/O Efficiency in recommendation systems

Baolei Li, Yiping Yuan, Yilin Zheng +6

Large-scale recommendation systems face "Memory Wall" bottlenecks due to massive, dense embedding tables. While generative retrieval uses discrete tokens for IDs, high-dimensional…

cs.IR2026

LLM-Based User Personas for Recommendations at Scale

Haoting Wang, Haokai Lu, Zheyun Feng +14

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer unprecedented potential for enhancing recommendation systems through their world knowledge and reasoning capabilities. However, existing approach…

cs.IR2026

TokenMinds: Pretrained User Tokens and Embeddings for User Understanding in Large Recommender Systems

Qingyun Liu, Bo Yan, Yang Liu +15

User modeling in industrial recommender systems typically produces dense embeddings, which suffer from representational constraints inherent to fixed-dimensional vectors. An emergi…

cs.IR2026

Vectorizing the Trie: Efficient Constrained Decoding for LLM-based Generative Retrieval on Accelerators

Zhengyang Su, Isay Katsman, Yueqi Wang +10

Generative retrieval has emerged as a powerful paradigm for LLM-based recommendation. However, industrial recommender systems often benefit from restricting the output space to a c…

cs.IR2025

Selecting User Histories to Generate LLM Users for Cold-Start Item Recommendation

Nachiket Subbaraman, Jaskinder Sarai, Aniruddh Nath +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, generalization, and simulating human-like behavior across a wide range of tasks. These strength…

cs.IR2025★ 3 cited

Balancing Fine-tuning and RAG: A Hybrid Strategy for Dynamic LLM Recommendation Updates

Changping Meng, Hongyi Ling, Jianling Wang +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) empower recommendation systems through their advanced reasoning and planning capabilities. However, the dynamic nature of user interests and content po…

cs.IR2025

PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations

Ruining He, Lukasz Heldt, Lichan Hong +20

Large Language Models (LLMs) pose a new paradigm of modeling and computation for information tasks. Recommendation systems are a critical application domain poised to benefit signi…

cs.IR2025

Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM

Haoting Wang, Jianling Wang, Hao Li +9

Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

cs.IR2025

User Feedback Alignment for LLM-powered Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems

Jianling Wang, Yifan Liu, Yinghao Sun +11

Exploration, the act of broadening user experiences beyond their established preferences, is challenging in large-scale recommendation systems due to feedback loops and limited sig…

cs.IR2024★ 3 cited

STAR: A Simple Training-free Approach for Recommendations using Large Language Models

Dong-Ho Lee, Adam Kraft, Long Jin +5

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) offers promising new approaches for recommendation system tasks. While the current state-of-the-art methods rely on fine-tuning LLMs…

cs.IR2024

Leveraging LLM Reasoning Enhances Personalized Recommender Systems

Alicia Y. Tsai, Adam Kraft, Long Jin +7

Recent advancements have showcased the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in executing reasoning tasks, particularly facilitated by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. While t…

cs.IR2024

Aligning Large Language Models with Recommendation Knowledge

Yuwei Cao, Nikhil Mehta, Xinyang Yi +5

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been used as backbones for recommender systems. However, their performance often lags behind conventional methods in standard tasks like…

cs.IR2023

Hiformer: Heterogeneous Feature Interactions Learning with Transformers for Recommender Systems

Huan Gui, Ruoxi Wang, Ke Yin +5

Learning feature interaction is the critical backbone to building recommender systems. In web-scale applications, learning feature interaction is extremely challenging due to the s…