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GenRecEdit: Adapting Model Editing for Generative Recommendation with Cold-Start Items

sigir26-138 · Full research paper · Chenglei Shen, Teng Shi, Weijie Yu, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu
Generative Retrieval and Ranking · 50% Generative Retrieval and Recommendat · 25% Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Sta · 25%
Abstract

Generative recommendation (GR) has demonstrated substantial potential for sequential recommendation in an end-to-end generation paradigm. However, existing models suffer from severe cold-start collapse, i.e., recommendation accuracy on cold-start items drops to near zero. Current solutions rely on retraining with cold-start interactions, which faces sparse feedback, high computational cost, and delayed updates, diminishing practical utility in rapidly evolving catalogs in recommendation. Inspired by NLP model editing (enabling training-free knowledge injection into large language models), we explore applying this paradigm to generative recommendation, but face two fundamental challenges: (1)~sequential data in GR lacks explicit subject–object binding (a core NLP sentence structure), hindering targeted model edits; (2)~sequential data in GR has no fixed token co-occurrence patterns (unlike NLP's stable phrases), making multi-token injection unreliable. To address these, we propose GenRecEdit, the first model editing framework tailored for generative recommendation. Specifically, we: (1)~mitigate the absence of sentence structure by explicitly modeling the intrinsic relationship between the entire sequence context and the next-token (e.g., semantic IDs, SIDs) generation; (2)~adopt iterative token-level edits to effectively inject token bundles (e.g., items); and (3)~introduce a One-One trigger mechanism to avoid interactions among multiple token-level edits during inference. Extensive experiments across multiple datasets demonstrate that øurname substantially improves recommendation performance on cold-start items while preserving the model's original recommendation quality. Moreover, øurname achieves these gains with only approximately 9.5% of the training time required by retraining, significantly reducing computational cost and enabling efficient, frequent model updates.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Xuanhua Yang
52
72 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
63 Towards Personalized Bundle Creative Generation with Contrastive Non-Autoregressive Decoding (2022) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
47 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
2 Ed H. Chi
50
73 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
63 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
58 Fresh Content Needs More Attention: Multi-funnel Fresh Content Recommendation (2023) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation
3 Yu Zhang 0206
49
87 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
57 Distribution-Guided Auto-Encoder for User Multimodal Interest Cross Fusion (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
56 Global-Distribution Aware Scenario-Specific Variational Representation Learning Framework (2025) Multi-Scenario and Multi-Domain CTR Prediction

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Weiming Liu 0005 52
Area-chair candidates (5)
Weiming Liu 0005 assigned 528 papers
Xiaoyi Zeng 4911 papers
Leyu Lin 4815 papers
Kun Gai COI: co-author 475 papers
Maolin Wang 0001 4515 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

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1 Han Li 0005 COI: co-author 56 3
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 Hao Deng 0011 56 3
87 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
71 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
3 Yupeng Hou COI: co-author 52 3
89 Inductive Generative Recommendation via Retrieval-based Speculation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
76 Multi-Behavior Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
4 Xuanhua Yang assigned 52 3
72 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
63 Towards Personalized Bundle Creative Generation with Contrastive Non-Autoregressive Decoding (2022) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
6 Qijiong Liu 52 3
83 Full Retraining, Incremental Fine-tuning, and Hybrid Serving: Model Updating and Serving for Industrial Generative Recommender Systems (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
62 RecBase: Generative Foundation Model Pretraining for Zero-Shot Recommendation (2025) Generative Retrieval and Recommendation Architectures
7 Qiang Luo 0004 51 3
66 OneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
64 DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
8 Ed H. Chi assigned 50 3
73 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
63 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
9 Bowen Zheng 0005 50 3
76 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
54 Bridging Textual-Collaborative Gap through Semantic Codes for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
10 Yong He 0009 50 3
58 Task Similarity Aware Meta Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation (2022) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
58 An Industrial Framework for Cold-Start Recommendation in Zero-Shot Scenarios (2022) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation
11 Yu Zhang 0206 assigned 49 3
87 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
57 Distribution-Guided Auto-Encoder for User Multimodal Interest Cross Fusion (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
13 Yongxin Ni 49 3
56 Multi-Modality is All You Need for Transferable Recommender Systems (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
56 Online Distillation-enhanced Multi-modal Transformer for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
14 Wei Guo 0006 49 3
88 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
83 Full Retraining, Incremental Fine-tuning, and Hybrid Serving: Model Updating and Serving for Industrial Generative Recommender Systems (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
15 Jinxin Hu 49 3
87 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
71 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
16 Jieming Zhu COI: co-author 49 3
76 EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
55 EAGER-LLM: Enhancing Large Language Models as Recommenders through Exogenous Behavior-Semantic Integration (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
17 Jiangxia Cao 49 3
67 A Multi-modal Modeling Framework for Cold-start Short-video Recommendation (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
51 QARM: Quantitative Alignment Multi-Modal Recommendation at Kuaishou (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
18 Bo Chen 0023 48 3
88 Generative Representational Learning of Foundation Models for Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
48 Large language models make sample-efficient recommender systems (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
19 Lantao Hu COI: co-author 48 3
73 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
49 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
20 Jianling Wang 48 3
59 Fresh Content Recommendation at Scale: A Multi-funnel Solution and the Potential of LLMs (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
58 Fresh Content Needs More Attention: Multi-funnel Fresh Content Recommendation (2023) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation
21 Min Hou 0004 48 3
59 GoRec: A Generative Cold-start Recommendation Framework (2023) Content-Based Transferable Recommendation
56 Multimodality Invariant Learning for Multimedia-Based New Item Recommendation (2024) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation
22 Yongqi Li 0001 48 3
71 Efficient Inference for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
71 EARN: Efficient Inference Acceleration for LLM-based Generative Recommendation by Register Tokens (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
24 Lichan Hong 48 3
76 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
64 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
26 Hao Liu 0078 47 3
49 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
46 MCRPL: A Pretrain, Prompt, and Fine-tune Paradigm for Non-overlapping Many-to-one Cross-domain Recommendation (2024) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR
27 Huifeng Guo 47 3
88 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
53 AutoAssign: Automatic Shared Embedding Assignment in Streaming Recommendation (2022) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation
28 Yang Song 0008 COI: co-author 47 3
61 GenSAR: Unifying Balanced Search and Recommendation with Generative Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
48 Making Transformer Decoders Better Differentiable Indexers (2025) Generative Retrieval
29 Zhengyi Yang 0007 47 3
53 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
47 Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
30 Junchen Fu 47 3
57 Are Multimodal Embeddings Truly Beneficial for Recommendation? A Deep Dive into Whole vs. Individual Modalities (2026) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
55 NineRec: A Benchmark Dataset Suite for Evaluating Transferable Recommendation (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
31 Chunyang Wang 0001 46 3
49 A Preference Learning Decoupling Framework for User Cold-Start Recommendation (2023) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
49 Dual-Adaptive Update Strategies-Enhanced Meta-Optimization for User Cold-Start Recommendation (2025) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
32 Ke Wang 0038 46 3
49 Multifaceted Relation-aware Meta-learning with Dual Customization for User Cold-start Recommendation (2023) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
49 A Preference Learning Decoupling Framework for User Cold-Start Recommendation (2023) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
33 Ke Fei 46 3
58 Sharpness-Consistent Cross-Domain Recommendation for Cold-Start Items (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
41 Stable and Adaptive Fusion for Multi-domain Multi-task Recommendation (2026) Multi-Scenario and Multi-Domain CTR Prediction
34 Shuchang Liu 0001 46 3
63 Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
52 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders