3 papers
cs.IR2026
Exponential Reward Weighting for Fine-Tuning Generative Recommenders under Sparse and Noisy Feedback
Keertana Chidambaram, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Qiuling Xu +2
In recommendation systems, users interact with only a small fraction of a vast item catalog, producing feedback that is both sparse and noisy. This challenges post-training generat…
cs.IR2026
Towards Generalizable and Efficient Large-Scale Generative Recommenders
Qiuling Xu, Ko-Jen Hsiao, Moumita Bhattacharya
Generative recommendation models can model user behavior as sequences of events and provide a shared backbone for multiple recommendation tasks. In production, however, pre-trainin…
cs.LG2026
Robust Post-Training for Generative Recommenders: Why Exponential Reward-Weighted SFT Outperforms RLHF
Keertana Chidambaram, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Qiuling Xu +2
Aligning generative recommender systems to user preferences via post-training is critical for closing the gap between next-item prediction and actual recommendation quality. Existi…