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Learning Decomposed Contextual Token Representations from Pretrained and Collaborative Signals for Generative Recommendation

sigir26-054 · Full research paper · Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Zelin Li, Zhenrui Yue, Ruichen Yao, Yang Zhang, Dong Wang
Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs · 50% Generative Recommendation and Item T · 25% Collaborative-Semantic Representatio · 25%
Abstract

Recent advances in generative recommenders adopt a two-stage paradigm: items are first tokenized into semantic IDs using a pretrained tokenizer, and then large language models (LLMs) are trained to generate the next item via sequence-to-sequence modeling. However, these two stages are optimized for different objectives: semantic reconstruction during tokenizer pretraining versus user interaction modeling during recommender training. This objective misalignment leads to two key limitations: (i) suboptimal static tokenization, where fixed token assignments fail to reflect diverse usage contexts; and (ii) discarded pretrained semantics, where pretrained knowledge—typically from language model embeddings—is overwritten during recommender training on user interactions. To address these limitations, we propose to learn DEcomposed COntextual Token Representations (DECOR), a unified framework that preserves pretrained semantics while enhancing the adaptability of token embeddings. DECOR introduces contextualized token composition to refine token embeddings based on user interaction context, and decomposed embedding fusion that integrates pretrained codebook embeddings with newly learned collaborative embeddings. Experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that DECOR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in recommendation performance. Our code is available at https://github.com/yliuaa/DECOR.git.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Yupeng Hou
59
76 ActionPiece: Contextually Tokenizing Action Sequences for Generative Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
73 Towards Large Generative Recommendation: A Tokenization Perspective (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
72 Learning Vector-Quantized Item Representation for Transferable Sequential Recommenders (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
2 Bowen Zheng 0005
57
76 Adapting Large Language Models by Integrating Collaborative Semantics for Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
73 Bridging Textual-Collaborative Gap through Semantic Codes for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
64 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Maolin Wang 0001 55
Area-chair candidates (3)
Maolin Wang 0001 assigned 5515 papers
Xiaoyi Zeng 4811 papers
Kun Gai 445 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Yang Zhang 0072 COI: author 60 3
67 IGD: Token Decisiveness Modeling via Information Gain in LLMs for Personalized Recommendation (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
67 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
2 Jizhi Zhang COI: co-author 60 3
87 Learnable Item Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
76 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
3 Yupeng Hou assigned 59 3
76 ActionPiece: Contextually Tokenizing Action Sequences for Generative Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
73 Towards Large Generative Recommendation: A Tokenization Perspective (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
4 Zhengyi Yang 0007 COI: co-author 58 3
76 Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
67 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
5 Bowen Zheng 0005 assigned 57 3
76 Adapting Large Language Models by Integrating Collaborative Semantics for Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
73 Bridging Textual-Collaborative Gap through Semantic Codes for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
6 Jieming Zhu COI: co-author 55 3
74 EAGER-LLM: Enhancing Large Language Models as Recommenders through Exogenous Behavior-Semantic Integration (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
73 CoST: Contrastive Quantization based Semantic Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
8 Hao Deng 0011 51 3
63 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
62 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
9 Han Li 0005 50 3
74 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
63 LEARN: Knowledge Adaptation from Large Language Model to Recommendation for Practical Industrial Application (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
10 Ed H. Chi 49 3
76 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
74 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
11 Junwei Pan 49 3
87 Incremental Learning for LLM-based Tokenization and Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
63 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
12 Qijiong Liu 48 3
73 CoST: Contrastive Quantization based Semantic Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
73 Learning Multi-aspect Item Palette: A Semantic Tokenization Framework for Generative Recommendation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
13 Keqin Bao COI: co-author 48 3
67 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
67 Decoding Matters: Addressing Amplification Bias and Homogeneity Issue in Recommendations for Large Language Models (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
14 Jiancan Wu COI: co-author 48 3
73 Towards Large Generative Recommendation: A Tokenization Perspective (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
62 Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
15 Lianghao Xia 48 3
62 RecGPT: A Foundation Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
59 Representation Learning with Large Language Models for Recommendation (2024) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment
17 Lichan Hong 47 3
76 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
73 Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
18 Qiang Luo 0004 47 3
62 DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
61 OneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
19 Chongming Gao COI: co-author 47 3
63 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
63 MGFRec: Towards Reinforced Reasoning Recommendation with Multiple Groundings and Feedback (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
20 Julian J. McAuley COI: co-author 47 3
76 Towards Large Generative Recommendation: A Tokenization Perspective (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
71 Learning Vector-Quantized Item Representation for Transferable Sequential Recommenders (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
21 Lantao Hu 47 3
74 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
72 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
22 Bo Chen 0023 COI: co-author 47 3
51 Generative Representational Learning of Foundation Models for Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
50 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
23 Jie Jiang 0015 46 3
87 Incremental Learning for LLM-based Tokenization and Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
75 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
24 Jinxin Hu 46 3
73 HeterRec: Heterogeneous Information Transformer for Scalable Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
63 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
25 Ke Wang 0038 46 3
61 Enhancing Cross-Domain Recommendation with Plug-In Contrastive Representations from Large Language Models (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
60 LLM-Grounded Diffusion for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
26 Yu Zhang 0206 46 3
76 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
70 HeterRec: Heterogeneous Information Transformer for Scalable Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
27 Jiangxia Cao 46 3
59 Enhancing Content-based Recommendation via Large Language Model (2024) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment
50 A Multi-modal Modeling Framework for Cold-start Short-video Recommendation (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
28 Yongxin Ni 45 3
50 Online Distillation-enhanced Multi-modal Transformer for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
49 Multi-Modality is All You Need for Transferable Recommender Systems (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
29 Seongmin Park 0002 45 3
57 LLM-Enhanced Linear Autoencoders for Recommendation (2025) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment
44 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
30 Xuanhua Yang 45 3
58 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
57 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
31 Yongqi Li 0001 45 3
79 Learnable Item Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
71 Bridging Items and Language: A Transition Paradigm for Large Language Model-Based Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
32 Xubin Ren 45 3
62 RecGPT: A Foundation Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
59 EasyRec: Simple yet Effective Language Models for Recommendation (2025) Collaborative-Semantic Representation Alignment