Generative Archetype-Grounded Item Representations for Sequential Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11023v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:59:14 GMT
• Title: Generative Archetype-Grounded Item Representations for Sequential Recommendation
• Abstract summary: GenAIR is a general framework that empowers sequential recommendation with Generative Archetype-grounded Item Representations.<n>We introduce a behavioral calibration objective, which explicitly incorporates behavioral signals from actual interactions.<n>Experiments conducted on three real-world datasets demonstrate that GenAIR significantly improves the performance of various sequential recommendation models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior. However, the limited quality of item representations remains a critical bottleneck. While pre-trained large language models (LLMs) can provide rich semantic representations, existing approaches only rely on static encoding of fixed attributes, overlooking the crucial role of target audiences in defining item identity. Moreover, the semantic space struggles to reflect actual user behavior, resulting in a significant gap between semantic representations and behavioral patterns. To address these limitations, we propose GenAIR, a general framework that empowers sequential recommendation with Generative Archetype-grounded Item Representations. Specifically, we first leverage an LLM to analyze item metadata and infer textual description of the Archetype, which represents the conceptual profile of the item's ideal target audience. We then extract the corresponding embeddings in a single forward pass. Further, to ground these generative archetypes in real-world behavior, we introduce a behavioral calibration objective, which explicitly incorporates behavioral signals from actual interactions. This objective adjusts the structure of the embedding space to reflect empirical patterns. GenAIR enables seamless integration with most existing models while maintaining high efficiency. Comprehensive experiments conducted on three real-world datasets demonstrate that GenAIR significantly improves the performance of various sequential recommendation models and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baseline approaches. Implementation codes are available at https://github.com/AI-Santiago/GenAIR.

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