6 papers
Stochastic Primal-Dual Decoding for Multiobjective Generative Recommender Systems
Dmitrii Moor, Ben Carterette, Senthilkumar Krishnamoorthy +5
Recent advances in recommender systems (RS) have shown substantial performance gains through generative modelling. In practice, recommendation often involves constructing slates --…
Primal-Dual Guided Decoding for Constrained Discrete Diffusion
Federico Tomasi, Dmitrii Moor, Alice Wang +1
Discrete diffusion models generate structured sequences by progressively unmasking tokens, but enforcing global property constraints during generation remains an open challenge. We…
Deploying Semantic ID-based Generative Retrieval for Large-Scale Podcast Discovery at Spotify
Edoardo D'Amico, Marco De Nadai, Praveen Chandar +41
Podcast listening is often grounded in a set of favorite shows, while listener intent can evolve over time. This combination of stable preferences and changing intent motivates rec…
From IR to RecSys: Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Cranfield-style Recommendation Collections
Gustavo Penha, Aleksandr V. Petrov, Claudia Hauff +9
The Cranfield paradigm has long provided reliable, reproducible evaluation in ad hoc retrieval, and recent work has begun extending this framework to recommender systems. A recent…
Evaluating Podcast Recommendations with Profile-Aware LLM-as-a-Judge
Francesco Fabbri, Gustavo Penha, Edoardo D'Amico +7
Evaluating personalized recommendations remains a central challenge, especially in long-form audio domains like podcasts, where traditional offline metrics suffer from exposure bia…
Text2Tracks: Prompt-based Music Recommendation via Generative Retrieval
Enrico Palumbo, Gustavo Penha, Andreas Damianou +5
In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled users to provide highly specific music recommendation requests using natural language prompts (e.g. "Can you recommend so…