Recommender Systems in the Age of Generative AI

Generative AI has revolutionized content creation, but what if we use it to generate the entire recommendation experience itself? In this workshop, we explore how generative models can go beyond tagging or summarizing content to compose full recommendation pages. Participants will build prototypes that generate coherent page layouts, using autoregressive models that attend to previously generated tiles. We will connect traditional recommenders with new generative methods to show how to move from ranking individual items to creating personalized experiences end to end.