On semantic-ids
- From embeddings to IDs to what you watch next
Generative recommenders are going into production. How a video becomes an embedding, then a semantic ID, and how a Transformer uses those IDs to choose what you'll watch next.
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A new paper turns every item into a short code of semantic tokens, then has a Transformer generate the code of what you'll want next. The item vocabulary finally describes what things are.
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