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LinkedIn develops PAIR for intent-based people recommendations

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Researchers have developed a new retrieval framework called PAIR (Preference-Aligned Intent Retrieval) for LinkedIn's Premium people recommendation service. Unlike traditional methods that rely on profile similarity, PAIR focuses on modeling user intent and complementary roles, such as job seekers engaging with recruiters. The system incorporates user interaction history and uses a preference-learning approach inspired by Direct Preference Optimization, enabling efficient updates and personalized recommendations. AI

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LinkedIn develops PAIR for intent-based people recommendations

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhongkai Shangguan, Yanbin Kang, Yihan Cao, Ruijie Jiang, Qiannan Yin, Chang Yue, Zijian Zhou, Girish Kathalagiri, Changshuai Wei, Zhengming Xing ·

    PAIR: Preference-Aligned Intent Retrieval for Premium People Recommendation at LinkedIn

    arXiv:2610.30941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose embeddings trained on profile similarity often misrank candidates in professional networks, where relevance is inherently complementary rather than symmetric. For example, job seekers usually engage with recruiters…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhengming Xing ·

    PAIR: Preference-Aligned Intent Retrieval for Premium People Recommendation at LinkedIn

    General-purpose embeddings trained on profile similarity often misrank candidates in professional networks, where relevance is inherently complementary rather than symmetric. For example, job seekers usually engage with recruiters rather than peers with similar credentials. Curre…

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