A Practitioner's Guide to Generative Recommendation, A Comprehensive Survey of PLMs in Text Embedding, and More!

Vol.115 for Jul 28 - Aug 03, 2025

Stay Ahead of the Curve with the Latest Advancements and Discoveries in Information Retrieval.

This week’s newsletter highlights the following research:

1. Multi-Turn GraphRAG with End-to-End Reinforcement Learning, from Luo et al.

2. A Comprehensive Survey of Pretrained Language Models in Text Embedding, from Harbin Institute of Technology

3. A Practitioner's Guide to Generative Recommendation, from Snap Inc.

4. A Survey on Leveraging Large Language Models to Overcome Traditional RecSys Limitations, from Raja et al.

5. A Balanced Approach to Item Cold Start in Sequential Recommendations, from Sber AI Lab

6. Moving Beyond Nearest Neighbors for Diverse Vector Search, from Raja et al.

7. Enhancing RAG Robustness by Injecting External Passages into the Reasoning Process, from UCAS

8. RecGPT: LLM-Driven Intent-Centric Recommender Systems at Industrial Scale, from Alibaba

9. Label-Free Performance Estimation in Top-N Recommendation, from Tsinghua University

10. LLM-Enhanced Adversarial Learning for Diversity-Accuracy Trade-offs in Recommendations, from Amazon