Papers

Curated list of key papers for the tutorial — from raw IDs to semantic IDs. Search and filter by tag.

Roger Zhe Li, et al. (2026). IDs That Mean Something: A Hands-On Tutorial on Semantic IDs for Recommender Systems. CIKM '26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3799682.3839274 [[tutorial]]

Wide & Deep Learning for Recommender Systems

Cheng, Koc, Harmsen, et al. — DLRS @ RecSys 2016

Foundational Raw IDs

Image-Based Recommendations on Styles and Substitutes

McAuley, Targett, Shi, van den Hengel — SIGIR 2015

Benchmark Amazon Reviews dataset

Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (TIGER)

Rajput, Mehta, Singh, et al. — NeurIPS 2023

Method Generative

Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations

Singh, Vu, Mehta, et al. (Google/YouTube) — RecSys 2024

Application Discriminative

QARM: Quantitative Alignment Multi-Modal Recommendation at Kuaishou

Luo, Cao, Sun, et al. — CIKM 2025

Application Industry deployment

Enhancing Embedding Representation Stability in Recommendation Systems with Semantic ID

Zheng, Huang, Pedchenko, et al. (Meta) — RecSys 2025

Application Industry deployment

DAS: Dual-Aligned Semantic IDs Empowered Industrial Recommender System

Ye, Sun, Shi, Peng, Wu, Jiang — CIKM 2025

Application Industry deployment

Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs

Wang, Pan, Li, et al. — CIKM 2025

Method Collaborative signals

Beyond Unimodal Boundaries: Generative Recommendation with Multimodal Semantics

Zhu, Ju, Liu, Koutra, Shah, Zhao — CoRR 2025

Method Multimodality

FusID: Modality-Fused Semantic IDs for Generative Music Recommendation

Kim, Hou, McAuley — CoRR 2026

Method Multimodality

Generative Multi-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation

Jin, Zhang, Feng, He — CoRR 2025

Method Cross-domain

From IDs to Semantics: A Generative Framework for Cross-Domain Recommendation with Adaptive Semantic Tokenization

Hu, Lu, Wang — AAAI 2026

Method Cross-domain

Semantic IDs for Joint Generative Search and Recommendation

Penha, D'Amico, De Nadai, et al. — RecSys 2025

Method Cross-task unification

More papers TBD

The full reference list (29 entries) is in the tutorial proposal. Duplicate a .paper-item block above for each additional paper, and set data-tags to match the filter buttons.


Maintained by Roger Zhe Li — Last updated: 2026