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Donald Loveland

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Book Open access Sep 2026

Understanding ID-Text Complementarity in Sequential Recommendation

Dense retrieval-based Sequential Recommendation (SR) systems increasingly leverage text features to represent items, and generally do so in one of two ways: (i) by completely replacing ID embeddings with text embeddings, or (ii) by carefully combining ID and text embeddings through complex fusion mechanisms. While thes...

Liam Collins, B. Kumar, Ming-Xuan Ju et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Edge-Level Automorphism in GNNs: A Quantitative Framework and Effective Designs For Link Prediction

A novel quantitative framework to assess GNN expressiveness for link prediction is introduced, and the edge automorphism ratio (EAR) is introduced, a scalar metric that quantifies a GNN's ability to distinguish links in a given graph.

Shao-Wei Chen, Donald Loveland, Tobias Käfer et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Training-Free LLM-Based Recommendation with Post-LLM Item Refinement Using Collaborative Signals

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for training-free recommendation, but LLM-generated user interests are often too broad for fine-grained item retrieval. Existing methods incorporate collaborative filtering (CF) signals in a pre-LLM manner through candidate reranking or prompt augmentation, yielding limit...

Kyungho Kim, Sunwoo Kim, Geon Lee et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Preserving Item Semantics for Free: Rethinking Token Initialization in LLM-Based Generative Recommendation

This work proposes a simple, parameter-free intervention that initializes SID token embeddings directly from their corresponding centroids in the semantic embedding space, and shows that preserving SID geometry, beyond shared-prefix structure, provides a simple and effective semantic prior for LLM-based GR.

Donald Loveland, Liam Collins, B. Kumar et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

LLM-Based Generative Retrieval for Snapchat Content Recommendation

The design and launch of SnapLGR, an LLM-based generative retrieval system for short-video recommendation at Snapchat shows that successful production SnapLGR requires joint design across representation learning, vocabulary grounding, and efficient training and serving.

Liam Collins, Jiwen Ren, Donald Loveland et al. · 0 citations

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