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From Clues to Generation: Language-Guided Conditional Diffusion for Cross-Domain Recommendation

sigir26-039 · Full research paper · Ziang Lu, Lei Sang, Lin Mu, Yiwen Zhang
Diffusion and Flow Recommenders · 33% Sequential and Session-based Recomme · 17% LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion · 17% Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendati · 11%
Abstract

Cross-domain Recommendation (CDR) exploits multi-domain correlations to alleviate data sparsity. As a core task within this field, inter-domain recommendation focuses on predicting preferences for users who interact in a source domain but lack behavioral records in a target domain. Existing approaches predominantly rely on overlapping users as anchors for knowledge transfer. In real-world scenarios, overlapping users are often scarce, leaving the vast majority of users with only single-domain interactions. For these users, the absence of explicit alignment signals makes fine-grained preference transfer intrinsically difficult. To address this challenge, this paper proposes Language-Guided Conditional Diffusion for CDR (LGCD), a novel framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) and diffusion models for inter-domain sequential recommendation. Specifically, we leverage LLM reasoning to bridge the domain gap by inferring potential target preferences for single-domain users and mapping them to real items, thereby constructing pseudo-overlapping data. We distinguish between real and pseudo-interaction pathways and introduce additional supervision constraints to mitigate the semantic noise brought by pseudo-interaction. Furthermore, we design a conditional diffusion architecture to precisely guide the generation of target user representations based on source-domain patterns. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LGCD significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in inter-domain recommendation tasks.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Zhengyi Yang 0007
69
64 Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion (2023) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
64 On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based Recommenders (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
64 Addressing Missing Data Issue for Diffusion-based Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
2 Xuanhua Yang
57
71 Towards Personalized Bundle Creative Generation with Contrastive Non-Autoregressive Decoding (2022) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
57 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
52 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
3 Han Li 0005
55
71 DiffusionGS: Generative Search with Query Conditioned Diffusion in Kuaishou (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
61 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
54 OneSug: The Unified End-to-End Generative Framework for E-commerce Query Suggestion (2026) Recommendation with Search and Ranking

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Leyu Lin 56
Area-chair candidates (7)
Leyu Lin assigned 5615 papers
Kun Gai 555 papers
Yanan Niu 5415 papers
Maolin Wang 0001 5315 papers
Weiming Liu 0005 538 papers
Pengyue Jia 5110 papers
Xin Xin 0003 4910 papers

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64 On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based Recommenders (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
2 Bo Chen 0023 58 3
68 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
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3 Lantao Hu 57 3
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4 Xuanhua Yang assigned 57 3
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5 Bowen Zheng 0005 56 3
61 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
52 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
7 Shuchang Liu 0001 56 3
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64 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
8 Hao Liu 0078 56 3
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9 Jianling Wang 55 3
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56 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
10 Han Li 0005 assigned 55 3
71 DiffusionGS: Generative Search with Query Conditioned Diffusion in Kuaishou (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
61 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
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65 DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
56 OneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
13 Jiancan Wu 54 3
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59 Customizing Language Models with Instance-wise LoRA for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
15 Yang Song 0008 54 3
59 Mixed Attention Network for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
54 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) LLM-Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
16 Jieming Zhu COI: co-author 54 3
59 ROMA: Recommendation-Oriented Language Model Adaptation Using Multi-Modal Multi-Domain Item Sequences (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
58 EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
17 Huifeng Guo 54 3
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55 SELF: Surrogate-light Feature Selection with Large Language Models in Deep Recommender Systems (2025) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion
18 Jiangxia Cao 53 3
70 From Agnostic to Specific: Latent Preference Diffusion for Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommendation (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
59 Contrastive Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2022) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
19 Xiao Zhang 0034 53 3
59 MoRE: A Mixture of Reflectors Framework for Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
56 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
22 Yupeng Hou 52 3
56 Inductive Generative Recommendation via Retrieval-based Speculation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
55 Multi-Behavior Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
23 Chen Wang 0052 52 3
57 Pre-Training with Transferable Attention for Addressing Market Shifts in Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
52 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
24 Ke Wang 0038 52 3
76 LLM-Grounded Diffusion for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
60 Contrastive Multi-view Interest Learning for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
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52 Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
26 Seongmin Park 0002 51 3
57 MergeRec: Model Merging for Data-Isolated Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2026) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
53 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
27 Junwei Pan 51 3
65 Cross-Scale Collaboration between LLMs and Lightweight Sequential Recommenders with Domain-Specific Latent Reasoning (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
61 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
28 Riwei Lai 51 3
60 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
59 Proxy-enhanced cross-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
29 Qijiong Liu 51 3
58 ONCE: Boosting Content-based Recommendation with Both Open- and Closed-source Large Language Models (2024) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion
53 RecBase: Generative Foundation Model Pretraining for Zero-Shot Recommendation (2025) Generative Retrieval and Recommendation Architectures
30 Chongming Gao 51 3
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51 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
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50 $\mathop {\mathtt {HAM}}$HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
33 Yongjing Hao 51 3
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52 Feature-Level Deeper Self-Attention Network With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
34 Lianghao Xia 50 3
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57 DiffKG: Knowledge Graph Diffusion Model for Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion
35 Jiuqiang Li 0002 50 3
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