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This paper addresses a critical structural flaw in semantic ID-based generative recommendation models by introducing TopoGR, which explicitly preserves the Hamming geometry of latent spaces. By shifting from treating tokens as independent symbols to leveraging bit-decomposable representations, the framework effectively captures item relatedness that standard exact-match approaches miss. The approach demonstrates improved performance on benchmark datasets while offering a more robust method for handling discrete tokenization in recommendation systems.
TopoGR: Revealing and Preserving Latent Structure of Semantic ID in Generative Recommendation
arXiv:2607.25216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic ID-based generative recommendation tokenizes each item into a sequence of discrete semantic IDs and predicts the next item by generating semantic IDs. However, existing methods typically regard SIDs as independent discrete symbols, while often overlooking the topology of the learned semantic ID space. We identify a structural mismatch between tokenization and generation: the tokenizer learns a structured code space with semantic neighborhood relations, whereas the generator consumes semantic ID tokens as independent categorical symbols. Consequently, item relatedness is reduced to exact semantic ID overlap, making it difficult to identify semantically similar items whose semantic IDs do not overlap. To address this issue, we propose TopoGR, a topology-preserving generative recommendation framework based on Bit-decomposable Semantic ID(Binary SID). Each Binary SID is learned in a bit-decomposable form and can be deterministically converted to a standard integer SID, while exposing an explicit Hamming geometry. TopoGR exploits this topology at three stages: binary SID features preserve Hamming proximity at the input layer; Hamming soft targets inject topology-aware supervision; and Hamming-consistent reranking aligns candidate items with the predicted binary prototype during inference. We further verify that the Hamming topology can capture item relatedness beyond exact SID matching. Experiments on four benchmark datasets show that TopoGR consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art baselines in recommendation performance.
Abstract:Semantic ID-based generative recommendation tokenizes each item into a sequence of discrete semantic IDs and predicts the next item by generating semantic IDs. However, existing methods typically regard SIDs as independent discrete symbols, while often overlooking the topology of the learned semantic ID space. We identify a structural mismatch between tokenization and generation: the tokenizer learns a structured code space with semantic neighborhood relations, whereas the generator consumes semantic ID tokens as independent categorical symbols. Consequently, item relatedness is reduced to exact semantic ID overlap, making it difficult to identify semantically similar items whose semantic IDs do not overlap. To address this issue, we propose TopoGR, a topology-preserving generative recommendation framework based on Bit-decomposable Semantic ID(Binary SID). Each Binary SID is learned in a bit-decomposable form and can be deterministically converted to a standard integer SID, while exposing an explicit Hamming geometry. TopoGR exploits this topology at three stages: binary SID features preserve Hamming proximity at the input layer; Hamming soft targets inject topology-aware supervision; and Hamming-consistent reranking aligns candidate items with the predicted binary prototype during inference. We further verify that the Hamming topology can capture item relatedness beyond exact SID matching. Experiments on four benchmark datasets show that TopoGR consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art baselines in recommendation performance.
Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2607.25216 [cs.IR]
(or arXiv:2607.25216v1 [cs.IR] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.25216 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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