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MVIGER: Multi-View Variational Integration of Complementary Knowledge for Generative Recommender

sigir26-067 · Full research paper · Tongyoung Kim, Soojin Yoon, SeongKu Kang, Jinyoung Yeo, Dongha Lee
Generative Retrieval and Ranking · 50% Generative Recommendation and Item T · 25% LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion · 25%
Abstract

Language Models (LMs) have been widely used in recommender systems to incorporate textual information of items into item IDs, leveraging their advanced language understanding and generation capabilities. Recently, generative recommender systems have utilized the reasoning abilities of LMs to directly generate index tokens for potential items of interest based on the user's interaction history. To inject diverse item knowledge into LMs, prompt templates with detailed task descriptions and various indexing techniques derived from diverse item information have been explored. This paper focuses on the inconsistency in outputs generated by variations in input prompt templates and item index types, even with the same user's interaction history. Our in-depth quantitative analysis reveals that preference knowledge learned from diverse prompt templates and heterogeneous indices differs significantly, indicating a high potential for complementarity. To fully exploit this complementarity and provide consistent performance under varying prompts and item indices, we propose MVIGER, a unified variational framework that models selection among these information sources as a categorical latent variable with a learnable prior. During inference, this prior enables the model to adaptively select the most relevant source or aggregate predictions across multiple sources, thereby ensuring high-quality recommendation across diverse template-index combinations. We validate the effectiveness of MVIGER on three real-world datasets, demonstrating its superior performance over existing generative recommender baselines through the effective integration of complementary knowledge.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Han Li 0005
55
76 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
74 DualGR: Generative Retrieval with Long and Short-Term Interests Modeling (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
74 Making Transformer Decoders Better Differentiable Indexers (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
2 Yongqi Li 0001
51
79 Efficient Inference for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
79 EARN: Efficient Inference Acceleration for LLM-based Generative Recommendation by Register Tokens (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
73 Bridging Items and Language: A Transition Paradigm for Large Language Model-Based Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
3 Julian J. McAuley
46
75 Inductive Generative Recommendation via Retrieval-based Speculation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
73 Multi-Behavior Generative Recommendation (2024) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
54 Towards Large Generative Recommendation: A Tokenization Perspective (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Maolin Wang 0001 46
Area-chair candidates (5)
Maolin Wang 0001 assigned 4615 papers
Xiaoyi Zeng 4611 papers
Pengyue Jia 4510 papers
Weiming Liu 0005 448 papers
Jun Xu 0001 442 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Zhengyi Yang 0007 56 3
67 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
60 Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
2 Han Li 0005 assigned 55 3
76 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
74 DualGR: Generative Retrieval with Long and Short-Term Interests Modeling (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
3 Bo Chen 0023 55 3
73 Generative Representational Learning of Foundation Models for Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
61 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
4 Yang Zhang 0072 55 3
67 IGD: Token Decisiveness Modeling via Information Gain in LLMs for Personalized Recommendation (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
5 Bowen Zheng 0005 53 3
63 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
60 Adapting Large Language Models by Integrating Collaborative Semantics for Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
6 Jizhi Zhang 52 3
67 Learnable Item Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
67 Decoding Matters: Addressing Amplification Bias and Homogeneity Issue in Recommendations for Large Language Models (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
7 Huifeng Guo 52 3
75 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
65 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
8 Jieming Zhu 51 3
65 EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
60 Efficient and Deployable Knowledge Infusion for Open-World Recommendations via Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
9 Hao Deng 0011 51 3
74 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
65 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
10 Yongqi Li 0001 assigned 51 3
79 Efficient Inference for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
79 EARN: Efficient Inference Acceleration for LLM-based Generative Recommendation by Register Tokens (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
11 Xuanhua Yang 50 3
76 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
59 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
12 Yupeng Hou 50 3
66 Inductive Generative Recommendation via Retrieval-based Speculation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
65 Multi-Behavior Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
13 Chongming Gao 49 3
64 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
64 MGFRec: Towards Reinforced Reasoning Recommendation with Multiple Groundings and Feedback (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
14 Qijiong Liu 49 3
70 Full Retraining, Incremental Fine-tuning, and Hybrid Serving: Model Updating and Serving for Industrial Generative Recommender Systems (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
60 ONCE: Boosting Content-based Recommendation with Both Open- and Closed-source Large Language Models (2024) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion
15 Ed H. Chi 48 3
78 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
76 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
16 Wei Guo 0006 48 3
75 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
70 Full Retraining, Incremental Fine-tuning, and Hybrid Serving: Model Updating and Serving for Industrial Generative Recommender Systems (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
17 Junjie Zhang 0009 47 3
74 Generative Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
53 Tapping the Potential of Large Language Models as Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Framework and Empirical Analysis (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
18 Wei Wei 0027 47 3
54 LLMRec: Large Language Models with Graph Augmentation for Recommendation (2024) Graph Pretraining and Foundation Models
51 GraphGPT: Graph Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models (2024) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning
19 Yongxin Ni 47 3
53 Where to Go Next for Recommender Systems? ID- vs. Modality-based Recommender Models Revisited (2023) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
52 Online Distillation-enhanced Multi-modal Transformer for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
20 Julian J. McAuley assigned 46 3
75 Inductive Generative Recommendation via Retrieval-based Speculation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
73 Multi-Behavior Generative Recommendation (2024) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
21 Lantao Hu 46 3
76 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
53 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
22 Shuchang Liu 0001 46 3
61 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
58 Recommendation as Language Processing (RLP): A Unified Pretrain, Personalized Prompt & Predict Paradigm (P5) (2022) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
23 Lichan Hong 46 3
78 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
63 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
25 Yu Zhang 0206 46 3
74 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
67 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
26 Yang Song 0008 46 3
58 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) LLM-Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
49 GenSAR: Unifying Balanced Search and Recommendation with Generative Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
27 Junwei Pan 46 3
67 Incremental Learning for LLM-based Tokenization and Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
64 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
29 Jinxin Hu 46 3
74 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
66 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
30 Qiang Luo 0004 46 3
63 OneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
51 DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
31 Jianling Wang 46 3
60 Fresh Content Recommendation at Scale: A Multi-funnel Solution and the Potential of LLMs (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
48 A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists (2019) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
32 Xiao Zhang 0034 45 3
61 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
50 MoRE: A Mixture of Reflectors Framework for Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation