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cs.IR2026

An Event is Worth One Token: Event Tokenization for Industrial-scale LLM Recommendation

Fan Xia, Zhaoheng Zheng, Iman Setayesh +12

LLM-based recommendation has scaled along model capacity and sequence length, yet each position encodes only text, semantic IDs, or a few categorical features, discarding rich user…

cs.IR2026

NEXT: Reasoning-Driven Video Recommendation via a Vision-Language Model

Yuming Liu, Hongye Yang, Harrison Zhao +5

We present NEXT (Next-interest EXploration Transformer), a reasoning-driven video recommendation framework that reasons over the video a user has just watched, infers the viewer's…

cs.IR2026

Rethinking ANN-based Retrieval: Multifaceted Learnable Index for Large-scale Recommendation System

Jiang Zhang, Yubo Wang, Wei Chang +14

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is widely used in the retrieval stage of large-scale recommendation systems. In this stage, candidate items are indexed using their learne…

cs.IR2026

Reason to Contrast: A Cascaded Multimodal Retrieval Framework

Xuanming Cui, Hong-You Chen, Hao Yu +10

Traditional multimodal retrieval systems rely primarily on bi-encoder architectures, where performance is closely tied to embedding dimensionality. Recent work, Think-Then-Embed (T…

cs.IR2026

Principled Synthetic Data Enables the First Scaling Laws for LLMs in Recommendation

Benyu Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Jianpeng Cheng +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a promising frontier for recommender systems, yet their development has been impeded by the absence of predictable scaling laws, which are cr…