8 papers
ReasonRec: A Reasoning-Augmented Multimodal Agent for Unified Recommendation
Yihua Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Jiyan Yang +11
Recent advances in multimodal recommenders excel at feature fusion but remain opaque and inefficient decision-makers, lacking explicit reasoning and self-awareness of uncertainty.…
LoopFM: Learning frOm HistOrical RePresentations of Foundation Model for Recommendation
Shali Jiang, Hua Zheng, Boyang Liu +40
Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers a single scalar prediction from a large foundation model (FM) to compact vertical models (VMs), suffering from diminishing transfer ratio -- t…
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…
Mixture of Sequence: Theme-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Sequence Recommendation
Xiao Lin, Zhicheng Tang, Weilin Cong +14
Sequential recommendation has rapidly advanced in click-through rate prediction due to its ability to model dynamic user interests. A key challenge, however, lies in modeling long…
External Large Foundation Model: How to Efficiently Serve Trillions of Parameters for Online Ads Recommendation
Mingfu Liang, Xi Liu, Rong Jin +104
Ads recommendation is a prominent service of online advertising systems and has been actively studied. Recent studies indicate that scaling-up and advanced design of the recommenda…
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…