Difficulty-Aware Semantic-ID Optimization for Generative Recommendation

arXiv cs.AIAugust 24, 2026en

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 similarly target-missing, item-level rewards may produce weak or degenerate reward variation even if s

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