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How should items be represented and indexed in recommenders?
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- How do embedding tokens and direct recommendation integration compare in decoupling?
- Can discrete codes replace text-only item representations in recommenders?
- How do discrete item codes compare to text-based item indexing for transfer?
- Can semantic tokens bridge embeddings and direct recommendation?
- How do large pretrained language models scale the unified recommendation paradigm?
- Does input augmentation outperform direct language-based recommendation systems?
- Can multi-facet item identifiers preserve both uniqueness and semantic meaning?
- Can elastic addressing instead of hashing solve embedding table scaling?
- Why do transductive recommenders fail where inductive learning succeeds?
- Can hypernetworks generate recommendation parameters more efficiently than retraining full models?
- Why do text-encoded recommenders overfit to similar item titles?
- What architectural differences exist between token-level and graph-level hybrid recommendation?
- What efficiency costs does unified language modeling impose versus specialized recommenders?
- Can this distillation pattern apply beyond e-commerce to other latency-constrained domains?
- Why do real-world platforms need inductive learning for streaming recommendation systems?
- How does embedding table size grow as new user and item IDs arrive?
- How do aspect-aware retrieval and surrogate models compare as explainability approaches?
- Can topic embeddings make RL dialogue recommendations interpretable to clinicians?
- How does model parameter isolation help with streaming recommendation reproducibility?
- Why do embedding tables need to grow elastically over time?
- How does uniform code distribution make items more distinguishable?
- What makes substitute graphs fundamentally different from complement graphs in recommendation systems?