A Survey on Generative Recommendation: Data, Model, and Tasks

Changlong Zheng; Han Wu; Le Wu; Min Hou; Richang Hong; Yonghui Yang; Yu Wang; Yuxin Liao; Zhen Zhang

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A Survey on Generative Recommendation: Data, Model, and Tasks

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Pith's one-line read Generative recommendation reframes user-item matching as a generation task instead of scoring.

desk verdict This survey gives a practical data-model-task breakdown for generative recommendation and a workable taxonomy, but it organizes existing work without adding new methods or results. read the letter →

arxiv 2510.27157 v2 submitted 2025-10-31 cs.IR

Min Hou , Le Wu , Yuxin Liao , Yonghui Yang , Zhen Zhang , Yu Wang , Changlong Zheng , Han Wu

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This survey organizes recent work showing how large language models and diffusion models change recommender systems from ranking candidates to producing outputs directly. The authors group the approaches around three operational stages that cover preparing data, aligning and training models, and defining what the system should generate at runtime. They point out five concrete benefits that follow from this shift, such as pulling in outside knowledge and following scaling patterns as models grow. The survey also flags practical obstacles in testing these systems and running them efficiently. Overall the work maps a path toward recommendation systems that can converse, explain choices, and create new content tailored to each user.

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The tripartite framework of data augmentation and unification, model alignment and training, and task formulation and execution that organizes LLM-based methods, large recommendation models, and diffusion approaches.

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A later review that identifies a sizable set of generative recommendation papers whose methods do not fit into the proposed data-model-task stages or that fail to demonstrate the five listed advantages.

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Core claim

The paper states that generative recommendation reconceptualizes the core matching problem as a generation task rather than discriminative scoring. It supplies a unified tripartite framework across data, model, and task dimensions and decomposes the literature into the stages of data augmentation and unification, model alignment and training, and task formulation and execution. At each stage the authors catalog techniques such as knowledge-infused augmentation, agent-based simulation, LLM alignment methods, and new task formats that support conversational interaction, explainable reasoning, and personalized content generation. They identify five resulting advantages: world knowledge, natural

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The existing literature on generative recommendation can be fully and cleanly decomposed into the stages of data augmentation and unification, model alignment and training, and task formulation and execution without major omissions or overlaps.

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Summary. This survey paper examines generative recommendation as an emerging paradigm that reconceptualizes recommendation as a generation task using models such as LLMs and diffusion models, rather than traditional discriminative scoring. It organizes the literature via a unified tripartite framework that decomposes approaches into operational stages of data augmentation and unification, model alignment and training (covering LLM-based methods, large recommendation models, and diffusion approaches), and task formulation and execution (including conversational interaction, explainable reasoning, and personalized content generation). The paper identifies five key advantages—world knowledge integration, natural language understanding, reasoning capabilities, scaling laws, and creative generation—while critically discussing challenges in benchmark design, model robustness, and deployment efficiency, and outlining a roadmap toward intelligent recommendation assistants.

Significance. If the tripartite framework proves comprehensive without major omissions or forced categorizations, the survey could provide a valuable organizing lens for an emerging subfield, helping researchers map the shift from neural recommender systems to generative ones. By taxonomizing methods across data, model, and task dimensions and explicitly naming advantages and open challenges, it may accelerate identification of research gaps in areas like agent-based simulation and scaling laws for recommendation.

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[Abstract / tripartite framework] Abstract and framework description: the central claim that the literature can be systematically decomposed into data augmentation/unification, model alignment/training, and task formulation/execution without major overlaps or omissions is load-bearing for the survey's utility; the manuscript should add an explicit discussion (perhaps in a dedicated taxonomy subsection) of boundary cases, such as works that span data unification and task execution, to demonstrate the framework's robustness.
[Advantages discussion] Five key advantages section: the advantages (world knowledge integration, natural language understanding, reasoning capabilities, scaling laws, creative generation) are presented as distinguishing features of the paradigm shift, but each should be tied to at least two concrete cited works with brief evidence of the claimed benefit to avoid appearing as high-level assertions.

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[Model level] Add a summary table in the model-level section that cross-references the three model categories (LLM-based, large recommendation models, diffusion) against alignment mechanisms and representative papers for improved readability.
[Challenges] The challenges section on benchmark design would benefit from citing specific existing benchmarks in generative recommendation and explicitly noting which ones fail to evaluate the claimed advantages such as creative generation.
[Introduction / Conclusion] Ensure consistent use of terminology (e.g., 'generative recommendation' vs. 'generative models for recommendation') throughout the introduction and conclusion to prevent minor reader confusion.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and positive overall assessment of our survey on generative recommendation. The suggestions regarding the tripartite framework and the advantages section are helpful for strengthening the manuscript's clarity and rigor. We address each major comment below and will incorporate the revisions in the next version.

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Referee: [Abstract / tripartite framework] Abstract and framework description: the central claim that the literature can be systematically decomposed into data augmentation/unification, model alignment/training, and task formulation/execution without major overlaps or omissions is load-bearing for the survey's utility; the manuscript should add an explicit discussion (perhaps in a dedicated taxonomy subsection) of boundary cases, such as works that span data unification and task execution, to demonstrate the framework's robustness.

Authors: We agree that an explicit discussion of boundary cases would better demonstrate the framework's robustness and address potential overlaps or ambiguities. In the revised manuscript, we will add a dedicated subsection (or expanded paragraph) within the taxonomy discussion that analyzes boundary cases, including examples of works spanning data unification and task execution. This will explain how such works are accommodated in the tripartite structure, any necessary clarifications, and why the decomposition remains systematic without major omissions or forced categorizations. revision: yes
Referee: [Advantages discussion] Five key advantages section: the advantages (world knowledge integration, natural language understanding, reasoning capabilities, scaling laws, creative generation) are presented as distinguishing features of the paradigm shift, but each should be tied to at least two concrete cited works with brief evidence of the claimed benefit to avoid appearing as high-level assertions.

Authors: We appreciate this observation. While the advantages are drawn from patterns across the surveyed literature, we acknowledge that grounding them with specific citations would make the claims more concrete and less high-level. In the revision, we will expand the five key advantages section to tie each advantage to at least two concrete cited works, including brief evidence of the claimed benefit drawn from those works (e.g., empirical results or qualitative demonstrations in the original papers). This will substantiate the discussion without altering the overall structure or identified advantages. revision: yes

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No significant circularity: descriptive survey with no derivations or fitted predictions

full rationale

This is a literature survey paper that organizes prior work on generative recommendation into a tripartite framework (data augmentation/unification, model alignment/training, task formulation/execution) without presenting any original mathematical derivations, equations, predictions, or parameter-fitting procedures. All claims about advantages and paradigms rest on citations to external prior literature rather than self-referential reductions or self-citation chains that bear the central load. The structure is an organizing lens for an emerging field and introduces no self-definitional, fitted-input, or ansatz-smuggling circularities.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The survey rests on standard domain assumptions about recommender systems and generative models without introducing free parameters or new entities; the framework is presented as a useful lens rather than a derived necessity.

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domain assumption Recommender systems address a fundamental problem of matching users with items and have undergone paradigm shifts from collaborative filtering to neural architectures.
Invoked in the opening of the abstract as the historical and conceptual foundation for introducing generative recommendation.

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Recommender systems serve as foundational infrastructure in modern information ecosystems, helping users navigate digital content and discover items aligned with their preferences. At their core, recommender systems address a fundamental problem: matching users with items. Over the past decades, the field has experienced successive paradigm shifts, from collaborative filtering and matrix factorization in the machine learning era to neural architectures in the deep learning era. Recently, the emergence of generative models, especially large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models, have sparked a new paradigm: generative recommendation, which reconceptualizes recommendation as a generation task rather than discriminative scoring. This survey provides a comprehensive examination through a unified tripartite framework spanning data, model, and task dimensions. Rather than simply categorizing works, we systematically decompose approaches into operational stages-data augmentation and unification, model alignment and training, task formulation and execution. At the data level, generative models enable knowledge-infused augmentation and agent-based simulation while unifying heterogeneous signals. At the model level, we taxonomize LLM-based methods, large recommendation models, and diffusion approaches, analyzing their alignment mechanisms and innovations. At the task level, we illuminate new capabilities including conversational interaction, explainable reasoning, and personalized content generation. We identify five key advantages: world knowledge integration, natural language understanding, reasoning capabilities, scaling laws, and creative generation. We critically examine challenges in benchmark design, model robustness, and deployment efficiency, while charting a roadmap toward intelligent recommendation assistants that fundamentally reshape human-information interaction.

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**Figure 1.** Discriminative Recommendation and Generative Recommendation innovation, where generative inference and probabilistic reasoning became integral parts of recommendation architectures. More recently, task-level generation has emerged, extending generative capabilities to high-level applications such as personalized content creation, multi-modal recommendation, and explainable reasoning. Together, these three perspect… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Overview of this survey. interaction-driven generative models; the use of LLM and textual data for natural language recommendation; and the integration of multimodal models for generating and processing images/videos in RS. Liu et al. [106] explored the advancements in multimodal pretraining, adaptation, and generation techniques, as well as their applications to recommender systems. Li et al. [80] reviewed the re… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Taxonomy of research on generative recommendation. proposing directions for advancing this emerging field. Finally, Section 7 concludes the survey by summarizing the contributions of generative models to RSs. 2. Preliminary and Background In this section, we begin with a foundational overview of traditional discriminative and generative recommendation models. We then explore the potential benefits that generative … view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Outline of key techniques in LLM-empowered data generation. Behavior Augmentation. Data sparsity and cold-start challenges are key constraints limiting recommendation systems, and LLMs offer opportunities to address these challenges. Through appropriate prompting, LL…

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: LLM empowered data unification 3.2.3. Multi-Modal Data Unification Recommendation involves multiple modalities like text, images, and behavior logs. Traditional methods fuse these separately, but large vision-language models (LVLMs) now enable unified multimodal repres…

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: The paradigms of aligning LLMs for recommendation. Inspired by the figure in [214]. (2) Large Recommendation Models, and (3) DiffusionBased Generative Recommendation. 4.1. LLM-Based Generative Recommendation With the rapid progress of LLMs, applying them to recommend…

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Illustration of two research directions of large recommendation models. (a) The Architecture of LRMs, and (b) End-toEnd Recommendation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png]

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Illustration of two types of diffusion-based generative recommendation. (a) Augmented Data Generation, and (b) Target Item Generation. item to explore the underlying distribution of item space, and generate recommended items directly, thereby eliminating the need for n…

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Illustration of traditional discriminative recommendation and generative recommendation assistant. that restrict a candidate set, generative models are capable of generating recommendations directly. In summary, large generative models bring stronger capabilities to th…

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