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New LESSRec model enhances semantic ID-based recommendations

Researchers have introduced LESSRec, a novel approach to semantic ID-based recommendation systems. This method models historical token sequences at different semantic levels separately, focusing attention on the most relevant level during prediction to avoid interference. LESSRec+ further optimizes this by using distinct encoders for each semantic level, maintaining parameter efficiency while reducing computational load. Experiments on public datasets show that LESSRec and LESSRec+ significantly improve recommendation effectiveness and efficiency. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Min Gao ·

    LESSRec: Level-Specific History Modeling for Semantic ID-Based Recommendation

    Semantic ID-based recommendation represents each item as a sequence of semantic tokens obtained through residual quantization. This paradigm generates the next item's tokens autoregressively from coarse to fine, entailing each prediction attending to historical tokens at all sema…