{
  "title": "LaPR: Latent Preference Reasoning for Generative Personalized Retrieval",
  "first_public": "2026-09-15",
  "first_public_source": "https://github.com/xiaozhoucam/xiaozhoucam.github.io/commit/b0cfb2efbc8615b5caa753c59368b2a2b94e237e",
  "first_public_note": "Author-hosted preprint upload date.",
  "citation_date": "2026-10-24",
  "paper_url": "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2255/",
  "id": "guo2026lapr",
  "authors": "Hanze Guo, Shunyu Zhang, Jiakai Tang, Jingwei Zhuo, Yi Zhang, Xuanping Li, Xiao Zhou",
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "venue": "EMNLP 2026",
  "doi": "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.2255",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-09",
  "lens": [
    "learned-tokens",
    "internalized"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise",
    "search"
  ],
  "training": [
    "curriculum",
    "distillation",
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Compresses teacher-written retrieval steps into learned discrete slot codes. Predicts how many slots a query and user history need, then generates the slots and an item identifier without writing a natural-language rationale.",
  "author_names": [
    "Hanze Guo",
    "Shunyu Zhang",
    "Jiakai Tang",
    "Jingwei Zhuo",
    "Yi Zhang",
    "Xuanping Li",
    "Xiao Zhou"
  ],
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  "legacy_record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/#paper-guo2026lapr",
  "json_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/guo2026lapr/record.json",
  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/guo2026lapr/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/guo2026lapr/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/guo2026lapr/citation.csl.json",
  "publication": {
    "title": "LaPR: Latent Preference Reasoning for Generative Personalized Retrieval",
    "author_names": [
      "Hanze Guo",
      "Shunyu Zhang",
      "Jiakai Tang",
      "Jingwei Zhuo",
      "Yi Zhang",
      "Xuanping Li",
      "Xiao Zhou"
    ],
    "year": 2026,
    "type": "paper-conference",
    "container_title": "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    "pages": "51279-51297",
    "publisher": "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    "url": "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2255/",
    "source_url": "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2255/",
    "verified_at": "2026-11-09",
    "doi": "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.2255"
  },
  "publication_bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/guo2026lapr/publication.bib",
  "publication_csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/guo2026lapr/publication.csl.json"
}