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5 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…

cs.IR2026

Netflix Artwork Personalization via LLM Post-training

Hyunji Nam, Sejoon Oh, Emma Kong +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated success in various applications of user recommendation and personalization across e-commerce and entertainment. On many entertainment…

cs.IR2025

IntentRec: Predicting User Session Intent with Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning

Sejoon Oh, Moumita Bhattacharya, Yesu Feng +1

Recommender systems have played a critical role in diverse digital services such as e-commerce, streaming media, social networks, etc. If we know what a user's intent is in a given…