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New CAPE method restores long-tail item recall in generative recommenders

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A new arXiv paper introduces CAPE (Co-occurrence-Aware Pool Expansion), a method designed to improve generative recommender systems by restoring their ability to recall long-tail items. Current generative models often forget these less popular items because their retrieval and ranking mechanisms are based on shared scores, which favors more popular "head" items. CAPE acts as a plug-in that reintroduces item-level memorization, enhancing both retrieval and ranking accuracy without significantly increasing latency. Experiments in product and music domains demonstrated CAPE's effectiveness in improving long-tail accuracy compared to existing methods. AI

IMPACT Enhances the ability of generative AI systems to recommend niche or less popular items, potentially improving user experience and discovery in various domains.

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiang Wang ·

    Generative Recommenders Forget the Long Tail: Restoring Memorization in Retrieval and Ranking

    Generative recommenders replace the retrieve-then-rank cascade with a single model: beam search over semantic item identifiers performs retrieval, and the same likelihood performs ranking. We show that this shared score makes them forget long-tail items twice. In retrieval, beam …

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