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Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Sep 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Masked Diffusion Challenges Left-to-Right Decoding in Generative Recommendation (Recsys'26)

This paper introduces MDGR, a masked diffusion framework for generative recommendation that replaces autoregressive left-to-right decoding with a parallel mask-denoising process, achieving up to 6.56% relative improvement offline and significant online gains in Alibaba's advertising platform.

AlibabaGenerative RecommendationMasked Diffusion

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Masked Diffusion Challenges Left-to-Right Decoding in Generative Recommendation (Recsys'26)

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Aug 21, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba's 10 CIKM 2026 Papers: Multimodal Large Models Transform E‑Commerce Search & Recommendation

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology presented ten CIKM 2026 papers that introduce multimodal large‑model techniques—such as SAM‑D2Q, C2P, PRO‑Bid, UTTSI, GRC, CDNet, CAIM and SORT—to overcome bottlenecks in e‑commerce search, recommendation, auto‑bidding and CTR prediction, delivering substantial offline metric lifts and significant online gains in CTR, CVR, GMV and revenue.

CTR predictionGenerative RecommendationMultimodal Models

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Alibaba's 10 CIKM 2026 Papers: Multimodal Large Models Transform E‑Commerce Search & Recommendation

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jul 30, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

FedAFD Enables Strong Cloud and Edge Performance in Multimodal Federated Learning

FedAFD, a CVPR 2026 paper, combines bi‑level adversarial alignment, granularity‑aware feature fusion, and similarity‑guided ensemble distillation to simultaneously boost cloud‑side global models and edge‑side personalization in multimodal federated learning, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results with only 20 communication rounds.

Adversarial AlignmentCVPR 2026Ensemble Distillation

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FedAFD Enables Strong Cloud and Edge Performance in Multimodal Federated Learning

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jul 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Generative Pretraining Overcomes Discriminative Model Bottlenecks in Ad Ranking

The article presents UserLLM, a three‑stage framework—generative pre‑training, discriminative SFT, and CTR fusion—that leverages ultra‑long user behavior sequences to address the compression and scaling limits of traditional discriminative ranking models, demonstrating significant offline gains and validated scaling‑law behavior across token, layer, and width dimensions.

Recommendation SystemsUserLLMad ranking

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How Generative Pretraining Overcomes Discriminative Model Bottlenecks in Ad Ranking

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jun 26, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How CCVTON Achieves SOTA Virtual Try-On Without Large-Scale Paired Data

CCVTON introduces a cycle‑consistent diffusion framework that trains on massive unpaired single‑model images, uses a two‑stage garment‑aware mask generation and multi‑criterion filtering to overcome paired‑data scarcity, and reaches state‑of‑the‑art results on VITON‑HD and DressCode.

CCVTONComputer VisionCycle-Consistency

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How CCVTON Achieves SOTA Virtual Try-On Without Large-Scale Paired Data

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jun 18, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

GeoReward: Enabling Vision‑Language Models to Sense Market Context for Country‑Specific Ad Creative

The paper identifies Contextual Variable Overestimation in vision‑language models, introduces the MACP multi‑country ad preference dataset, proposes the three‑gate GeoReward framework to restore sensitivity to sparse country cues, and demonstrates superior accuracy, sensitivity, and controllable ad generation across ten markets.

Cross-Market PreferenceDataset MACPGeoReward

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GeoReward: Enabling Vision‑Language Models to Sense Market Context for Country‑Specific Ad Creative

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jun 12, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Personalized World Knowledge Lets Large Models Truly Understand Users in Generative Recommendation

This article introduces LWGR, a framework that uses personalized soft prompts generated by parallel codebooks and Lagrangian‑constrained knowledge fusion to integrate large language model world knowledge into generative recommendation, overcoming fixed‑prompt limitations and knowledge‑behavior conflicts, and demonstrates superior performance on public and industrial datasets with notable revenue gains in online A/B tests.

Generative RecommendationLagrangian constraintLarge Language Model

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Personalized World Knowledge Lets Large Models Truly Understand Users in Generative Recommendation

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jun 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

From Alchemist to Decision‑Maker: How Agents Redefine Algorithm Engineers’ Role

The article details a multi‑layer Research Agent system that automates the repetitive execution steps of recommendation model development, demonstrates a 17.5% HitRate@100 lift on Lazada’s generative recall pipeline, and argues that while agents excel at efficient trial‑and‑error, true creative breakthroughs still require human insight.

AI AgentsLazadaMulti-Agent Architecture

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From Alchemist to Decision‑Maker: How Agents Redefine Algorithm Engineers’ Role

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

May 29, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Turning Cutting-Edge AI into a Cocktail at Zhejiang University’s Academic Bar

Alibaba International hosted an Academic Bar at Zhejiang University where experts presented multilingual e‑LLM models, next‑generation recommendation systems, AI‑driven optical design, safety frameworks for agents, a benchmark for e‑commerce chatbots, virtual user research, an Agent Harness architecture, and edge‑side large‑model techniques, illustrating the practical convergence of cutting‑edge AI research and industry.

AI AgentsAI safetyRecommendation Systems

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Turning Cutting-Edge AI into a Cocktail at Zhejiang University’s Academic Bar

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

May 22, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How SORT Transforms Precision Ranking with a Transformer‑Based Architecture

SORT re‑architects industrial‑scale ranking by shifting to a request‑centric data paradigm, integrating sparse and MoE optimizations into a Transformer backbone, and delivering significant CTR‑AUC, FLOPs, and online metric improvements while maintaining high training and inference efficiency.

Large Model ScalingMixture of ExpertsRecommendation Systems

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How SORT Transforms Precision Ranking with a Transformer‑Based Architecture