What Will Recommendation Systems Look Like in 2026? Emerging Trends and Challenges
This article analyzes the current bottlenecks of conventional recommendation systems and outlines ten forward‑looking research directions for 2026, including retention improvement, user growth, content ecosystem, multi‑objective Pareto optimization, long‑term value estimation, site‑wide optimization, interactive recommendation, personalized modeling, decision‑theoretic framing, and the integration of large language models via the OneRec framework.
