RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation.

@inproceedings{bhattacharyya-2026-rclrec, author = {Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Yulei Huang and Marcia J. Bates and Xiaoyi Zeng and Dmitry Lagun and Hao Deng and Jimmy Lin and Zulong Chen and Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Yulei Huang and Haibo Xing and Anton Polishko and Jinxin Hu and Yu Zhang and Zengxuan Wen and Chuanfei Xu and Jimmy Lin and Zulong Chen and Yu Zhang and Zengxuan Wen and Anton Polishko and Jinxin Hu and Marcia J. Bates and Xiaoyi Zeng}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3793--3798}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809887}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809887} }