Difficulty-Aware Semantic-ID Optimization for Generative Recommendation
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arXiv:2608.20611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic-ID-based generative recommendation casts retrieval and ranking as autoregressive generation over hierarchical item identifiers. A common recipe is SFT followed by GRPO, yet vanilla GRPO is poorly matched to this tree-structured task. Under the frozen SFT checkpoint, the exact target is absent from the first 16 candidates of the 50-beam constrained ranking for many prompts, and in harder cases none of these candidates enters the target SID branch. This prompt-level diagnostic motivates a training concern: when on-policy GRPO groups are si
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.20611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic-ID-based generative recommendation casts retrieval and ranking as autoregressive generation over hierarchical item identifiers.
- A common recipe is SFT followed by GRPO, yet vanilla GRPO is poorly matched to this tree-structured task.
- Under the frozen SFT checkpoint, the exact target is absent from the first 16 candidates of the 50-beam constrained ranking for many prompts, and in harder cases none of these candidates enters the target SID branch.
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