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Accelerating Generative Recommendation via Simple Categorical User Sequence Compression

Published: January 27, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.19158v1

By: Qijiong Liu , Lu Fan , Zhongzhou Liu and more

BigTech Affiliations: Huawei

Potential Business Impact:

Makes online shopping suggestions faster and more accurate.

Business Areas:
Semantic Search Internet Services

Although generative recommenders demonstrate improved performance with longer sequences, their real-time deployment is hindered by substantial computational costs. To address this challenge, we propose a simple yet effective method for compressing long-term user histories by leveraging inherent item categorical features, thereby preserving user interests while enhancing efficiency. Experiments on two large-scale datasets demonstrate that, compared to the influential HSTU model, our approach achieves up to a 6x reduction in computational cost and up to 39% higher accuracy at comparable cost (i.e., similar sequence length).

Country of Origin
🇭🇰 🇨🇳 China, Hong Kong

Repos / Data Links

Page Count
5 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Information Retrieval