GRP v0.1 Technical Report

Abstract

Industrial recommendation systems rely on multi-stage cascades whose retrieval, ranking, and serving components are difficult to replace jointly. We present GRP, a generative recommendation framework that combines retrieval, ranking, and reward modeling in a single encoder-decoder model, and evaluate a progressive path toward end-to-end recommendation. The model generates multimodal Semantic IDs and scores candidates with a jointly trained ranking module. The frozen ranking module then supplies rewards for reinforcement-learning post-training. We introduce mGRPO, which adds a reference-anchored margin to reward optimization to preserve the likelihood of logged targets. Offline experiments examine history encoding, model capacity allocation, event selection, tokenization, and reward discrimination. Serving optimizations reduce end-to-end retrieval latency by 69%. Online experiments evaluate the model as a retrieval source, with early-ranking bypass, and with replacement of weaker sources. In a retrieval-only comparison, view time increases by 0.46% and shares by 0.77% relative to production. A separate comparison combining bypass and source replacement yields increases of 0.82% in view time and 2.56% in shares, with neutral platform-level guardrails. These results support progressive deployment while identifying remaining gaps in ranking quality and performance across recommendation metrics.