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Breaking Determinism: Fuzzy Modeling of Sequential Recommendation Using Discrete State Space Diffusion Model

Neural Information Processing Systems

Additionally, to address the inefficiency of matrix transformations due to the vast discrete space, we use semantic labels derived from quantization or RQ-V AE to replace item IDs, enhancing efficiency and improving cold start issues.


Embedding-Aligned Language Models Guy Tennenholtz

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this paper, we present a novel framework which accomplishes this by exploiting latent embedding spaces to define an objective function for an LLM in an iterative RL-driven process. As an example, consider the challenge of assisting content creators in generating valuable content within a recommender ecosystem (e.g., Y ouTube, Reddit, Spotify) [Boutilier et al., 2024].








Accelerating SGD for Highly Ill-Conditioned Huge-Scale Online Matrix Completion

Neural Information Processing Systems

The matrix completion problem seeks to recover a d d ground truth matrix of low rank r d from observations of its individual elements. Real-world matrix completion is often a huge-scale optimization problem, with d so large that even the simplest full-dimension vector operations with O ( d) time complexity become prohibitively expensive. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is one of the few algorithms capable of solving matrix completion on a huge scale, and can also naturally handle streaming data over an evolving ground truth. Unfortunately, SGD experiences a dramatic slow-down when the underlying ground truth is ill-conditioned; it requires at least O ( κ log(1 /ϵ)) iterations to get ϵ -close to ground truth matrix with condition number κ. In this paper, we propose a preconditioned version of SGD that preserves all the favorable practical qualities of SGD for huge-scale online optimization while also making it agnostic to κ. For a symmetric ground truth and the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) loss, we prove that the preconditioned SGD converges to ϵ -accuracy in O (log(1 /ϵ)) iterations, with a rapid linear convergence rate as if the ground truth were perfectly conditioned with κ = 1 . In our experiments, we observe a similar acceleration for item-item collaborative filtering on the MovieLens25M dataset via a pair-wise ranking loss, with 100 million training pairs and 10 million testing pairs.