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Exploring the Design Space of Permutation Diffusion LLMs
Zhe Xu, Mingfu Liang, Kavosh Asadi +16
Permutation generation with language models requires both text-conditioned ranking and a global one-to-one assignment between candidates and output positions. We study this problem…
The Case Against Generation for Retrieval: Discriminative Language Models as Effective Retrievers
Zhe Xu, Prachi Agrawal, Kavosh Asadi +17
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful assets for recommender systems. However, deploying them as generative recommenders or zero-shot rankers at web-scale remains b…
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…
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…
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…
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…