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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 95/10
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Bandits for Efficient Experimentation: Adapting to Control Group, Preferences, and Context Drifts

Researchers introduce Dri-MED, a machine learning algorithm designed to handle multi-armed bandit problems with personalized user preferences, drifting context distributions, and baseline performance constraints. The algorithm achieves improved regret bounds while minimizing constraint violations, demonstrating practical advantages over conservative baseline approaches in experimental settings.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 86/10
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PaperFlow: Profiling, Recommending, and Adapting Across Daily Paper Streams

PaperFlow introduces a longitudinal framework for scientific paper recommendation that moves beyond static ranking to simulate real-world reading behavior across daily paper streams. The system profiles users, recommends papers under display constraints, and adapts to interest drift through multiple feedback signals, validated against a new benchmark of 1,200 user-day episodes and human expert evaluation.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 56/10
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Bridging the Semantic-Collaborative Gap: An Asymmetric Graph Architecture for Cold-Start Item Recommendation

Researchers at Tubi have developed Shallow-RHS, a graph-based recommendation system that addresses the cold-start problem for new content by using asymmetric neural architectures. The model separates user-interaction modeling from content feature encoding, enabling immediate embeddings for newly ingested items while maintaining collaborative filtering capabilities in production environments.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 56/10
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OneReason Technical Report

OneReason introduces a novel framework for improving reasoning capabilities in generative recommendation models by addressing perception and cognition limitations. The approach combines semantic grounding of item tokens with multi-level chain-of-thought sequences, demonstrating that effective reasoning requires both language understanding and coherent interest modeling rather than scaling alone.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 46/10
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DSIRM: Learning Query-Bridged Discrete Semantic Identifiers for E-commerce Relevance Modeling

Researchers have developed DSIRM, a machine learning model that improves e-commerce search relevance by combining discrete semantic identifiers with query-dependent ranking. The system achieved a 1.54% offline AUC improvement and significant online gains (+0.13% UCTR, +0.25% UCTCVR) when deployed on Tmall's platform, demonstrating practical value for large-scale recommendation systems.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 25/10
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Community-Aware Assessment of Social Textual Engagement and Resonance: A Human-Centric Perspective on User-Generated Content Evaluation

Researchers introduce CASTER, a new framework for evaluating user-generated content (UGC) based on community resonance rather than traditional visual quality metrics. The accompanying MEDEA architecture uses a novel Social Chain-of-Thought mechanism that simulates diverse viewer perspectives to predict how content will resonate socially, trained through supervised learning and reinforcement learning aligned with authentic human feedback.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10
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Synthetic Data from Cross-Domain Events for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

Researchers introduce SCALR, a framework that generates synthetic user-item interaction data across recommendation system domains by leveraging observed events from source domains. The approach addresses data sparsity challenges in large-scale recommendation systems and demonstrates statistically significant improvements in industrial A/B testing.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10
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LLMs Need Encoders for Semantic IDs Too

Researchers propose PrefixMem, a dedicated encoder for Semantic IDs (hierarchical codes used in generative recommendation systems), arguing that LLMs require specialized preprocessing for this modality just as they do for vision and audio. Testing at Pinterest shows accuracy improvements up to 46% and retrieval recall gains of 22%, particularly on difficult cases where standard decoding fails.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10
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COPF: An Online Framework for Deployment-Stable Counterfactual Fairness in Evolving Graphs

Researchers introduce COPF, a framework for monitoring and controlling fairness in online link recommendation systems on evolving graphs. The system addresses the challenge that recommendation algorithms are performative—they change user behavior and create feedback loops that make traditional fairness estimates unreliable after deployment.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10
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Time-Aware Diffusion based on Preference Disentanglement for Generative Recommendation

Researchers introduce TDPM, a novel generative recommendation framework that applies time-aware diffusion models to improve personalized item suggestions by distinguishing between long-term period preferences and short-term event-triggered preferences. The approach achieves significant performance improvements of up to 29.21% in Hit Rate and 25.45% in NDCG metrics compared to existing methods.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10
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Breaking the Information Silo: Semantic Personas for Cross-Domain Recommendation

Researchers introduce SPHERE, a semantic-based system that enables recommendation knowledge transfer across completely separate digital platforms without requiring shared users or items. Using large language models to create behavioral semantic personas, the approach demonstrates consistent improvements over traditional recommendation algorithms across Amazon Books, Goodreads, and Steam, suggesting a new paradigm for breaking down information silos in cross-domain systems.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 25/10
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Rank-Constrained Deep Matrix Completion for Group Recommendation

Researchers propose Group RC-DMC, a machine learning framework that improves group recommendation systems by combining low-rank matrix completion with attention-based deep learning. The method addresses data sparsity challenges in collaborative filtering and demonstrates superior performance on movie and book datasets.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10
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GFlowGR: Fine-tuning Generative Recommendation Frameworks with Generative Flow Networks

Researchers introduce GFlowGR, a new fine-tuning framework for generative recommendation systems that addresses the exposure bias problem in large language model-based recommenders. By leveraging Generative Flow Networks alongside collaborative filtering principles, the approach demonstrates improved performance over standard supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization methods.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 296/10
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Quotient DAGs for Off-Policy Evaluation:Forward-Flow Importance Sampling and Exact Slate Propensities

Researchers introduce Quotient DAGs, a novel framework for off-policy evaluation that addresses variance issues in importance sampling by recognizing when generation process details are irrelevant to evaluation targets. The method computes exact unordered slate propensities efficiently through Forward-DP, a dynamic programming approach that avoids factorial enumeration, enabling practical evaluation for autoregressive slate recommendation systems.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 296/10
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The Best of the Two Worlds: Harmonizing Semantic and Hash IDs for Sequential Recommendation

Researchers propose H2Rec, a novel framework that combines Semantic IDs (SID) and Hash IDs (HID) to improve sequential recommendation systems, particularly for long-tail items. The dual-branch architecture addresses the performance trade-off between head and tail recommendations, with validation across public benchmarks and a commercial platform.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 286/10
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Ocean4Rec: Offline LLM-Derived OCEAN Profiles for Request-Time VOD Reranking

Ocean4Rec presents a novel approach to video-on-demand recommendation by using LLMs offline to generate OCEAN personality profiles for content items, then performing request-time reranking without real-time model calls. The system demonstrates significant NDCG improvements (7.6-61.5%) on Samsung Smart TV data while maintaining deployment simplicity and predictable latency for production services.

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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 286/10
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Fine-Tuned LLM as a Complementary Predictor Improving Ads System

Researchers demonstrate a novel approach to advertising systems by using fine-tuned large language models as complementary predictors for advertiser forecasting rather than traditional ranking roles. Deployed in production-scale environments, this method improves candidate generation and downstream ranking by leveraging LLM knowledge to predict likely advertisers from user data, delivering measurable offline and online business improvements.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 286/10
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ProRL: Effective Reinforcement Learning for Proactive Recommendation via Rectified Policy Gradient Estimation

Researchers introduce ProRL, a reinforcement learning framework designed to improve proactive recommender systems that guide users toward target items through sequential recommendations. The approach addresses fundamental gradient estimation problems in policy learning by implementing stepwise reward centering and position-specific advantage estimation, demonstrating superior performance on real-world datasets.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 275/10
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Uniboost: Global Coordination with Value Alignment for Fair and Efficient Traffic Allocation

Uniboost is a new traffic allocation framework for recommendation systems that uses posterior value alignment and linear boosting to improve interpretability and efficiency in allocating traffic across business objectives. The system reduces score inflation and decouples allocation plans, demonstrating improved performance in online A/B tests with practical applications for large-scale industrial recommendation systems.

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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 276/10
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L2Rec: Towards Dual-View Understanding of LLMs for Personalized Recommendation

L2Rec introduces a novel framework that adapts large language models for personalized recommendations by unifying behavioral and semantic signals at the parameter level using a Dual-view Personalized Mixture-of-Experts mechanism. The approach demonstrates superior performance across multiple datasets and validates real-world applicability through industrial A/B testing.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 276/10
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Hi-SAM: A Hierarchical Structure-Aware Multi-modal Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation

Hi-SAM is a new hierarchical multi-modal recommendation framework that improves how AI systems process diverse data types (text, images) for personalized suggestions. The system addresses tokenization inefficiencies and architectural misalignments in existing approaches, achieving 6.55% improvement in core metrics when deployed at scale.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 276/10
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Echoes in Filter Bubble: Diagnosing and Curing Popularity Bias in Generative Recommenders

Researchers have identified and addressed popularity bias in Generative Recommenders (GRs), a emerging class of AI systems that use unified end-to-end frameworks for recommendations. The study reveals that this bias stems from token-level optimization flaws and undifferentiated item tokenization, proposing Ghost, a novel system using asymmetric unlikelihood optimization and skeleton-founded tokenization to mitigate the problem while maintaining recommendation quality.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 126/10
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UxSID: Semantic-Aware User Interests Modeling for Ultra-Long Sequence

UxSID is a new machine learning framework that models long user behavior sequences using semantic grouping and dual-level attention, achieving state-of-the-art performance with a 0.337% revenue lift in large-scale advertising tests. The approach balances computational efficiency with semantic awareness by using Semantic IDs rather than item-specific search methods.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 125/10
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Multi-Level Graph Attention Network Contrastive Learning for Knowledge-Aware Recommendation

Researchers propose a multi-level graph attention network framework that uses contrastive learning to improve knowledge-graph-based recommendation systems. The approach addresses limitations in existing methods by leveraging multi-view learning and self-supervised techniques to better model user preferences and item representations.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 116/10
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RRCM: Ranking-Driven Retrieval over Collaborative and Meta Memories for LLM Recommendation

Researchers propose RRCM, a novel framework that enhances Large Language Model-based recommendation systems by dynamically retrieving relevant collaborative and metadata information. The system learns optimal context construction through ranking-driven optimization, addressing key challenges in balancing context quality with efficiency limitations.

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