VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Lunsong Huang
dblp:401/4674
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0001-4758-0925ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Recommender systems · 64% Information retrieval · 36% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › retrieval models
generative retrieval |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation · SIGIR 2026 |
Recommender systems
large-scale recommendation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation · SIGIR 2026 |
Recommender systems
preference alignment |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation · SIGIR 2026 |
Recommender systems
sequential recommendation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval › indexing › index compression
token compression |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation · SIGIR 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
semantic IDs · 1.0reward model · 1.0group relative policy optimization · 1.0decoder-only architecture · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale RecommendationabstractGenerative Retrieval (GR) offers a promising paradigm for recommendation through next-token prediction (NTP). However, scaling it to large-scale industrial systems introduces three challenges: (i) within a single request, the identical model inputs may produce inconsistent outputs due to the pagination request mechanism; (ii) the prohibitive cost of encoding long user behavior sequences with multi-token item representations based on semantic IDs, and (iii) aligning the generative policy with nuanced user preference signals. We present GenRec, a preference-oriented generative framework deployed on the JD App https://www.jd.com that addresses above challenges within a single decoder-only architecture. For training objective, we propose Page-wise NTP task, which supervises over an entire interaction page rather than each interacted item individually, providing denser gradient signal and resolving the one-to-many ambiguity of point-wise training. On the prefilling side, an asymmetric linear Token Merger compresses multi-token Semantic IDs in the prompt while preserving full-resolution decoding, reducing input length by ~2× with negligible accuracy loss. To further align outputs with user satisfaction, we introduce GRPO-SR, a reinforcement learning method that pairs Group Relative Policy Optimization with NLL regularization for training stability, and employs Hybrid Rewards combining a dense reward model with a relevance gate to mitigate reward hacking. In month-long online A/B tests serving production traffic, GenRec achieves 9.5% improvement in click count and 8.7% in transaction count over the existing pipeline. Yanyan Zou 0003, Junbo Qi, Lunsong Huang, Kewei Xu, Jiahao Gao, Binglei Zhao 0002, Xuanhua Yang, Sulong Xu, Shengjie Li 0001 |
SIGIR | 3 |