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ARXIV:2605.07125 · SEQUENTIAL RECOMMENDATION BENCHMARKING · SUBMITTED 11 MAY · 20:47 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2605.07125SEQUENTIAL RECOMMENDATION BENCHMARKINGSUBMITTED 11 MAY · 20:47 UTCFRESHNESS STALEHaoyu Han · Li Ma · Hanbing Wang · Bingheng Li · Daochen Zha · Chun How Tan · +6 at arXiv
A simple graph heuristic that outperforms advanced generative recommenders on existing benchmarks, revealing shortcut solvability and calling for better dataset evaluation.
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A simple graph heuristic that outperforms advanced generative recommenders on existing benchmarks, revealing shortcut solvability and calling for better dataset evaluation. Yet these methods are often evaluated on a small set of widely used…
Sequential recommendation has increasingly shifted toward generative recommenders that combine sequential patterns with semantic item information. Yet these methods are often evaluated on a small set of widely used benchmarks, raising a key question:…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. We show that this behavior reflects shortcut solvability rather than an artifact of one heuristic. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the…
Sequential Recommendation Benchmarking moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 5.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A simple graph heuristic that outperforms advanced generative recommenders on existing benchmarks, revealing shortcut solvability and calling for better dataset evaluation.
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10.48550/arXiv.2605.07125A simple graph heuristic that outperforms advanced generative recommenders on existing benchmarks, revealing shortcut solvability and calling for better dataset evaluation.
Abstract
Sequential recommendation has increasingly shifted toward generative recommenders that combine sequential patterns with semantic item information. Yet these methods are often evaluated on a small set of widely used benchmarks, raising a key question: do these benchmarks actually require the advanced modeling capabilities that modern generative recommenders claim to provide? We conduct a benchmark audit with an intentionally simple graph heuristic. Starting from only the last one or two interacted items, it retrieves candidates from a few-hop item-transition graph and ranks them by item-feature similarity. Despite using no sequence encoder, generative objective, or training, this heuristic matches or outperforms many modern baselines, with relative NDCG@10 improvements of 38.10% and 44.18% over the best competing baseline on Amazon Review Sports and CDs. We show that this behavior reflects shortcut solvability rather than an artifact of one heuristic. We identify three shortcut structures that can make next-item prediction easier than expected: low-branching local transitions, feature-smooth transitions, and limited dependence on long user histories. These shortcuts need not appear together; even one or two strong signals can make simple local retrieval highly competitive, while weakening them makes the benefits of more sophisticated models clearer. Across 14 datasets, model rankings vary substantially with dataset properties, yet the heuristic remains competitive on 10 of them. Our findings suggest that strong performance on standard benchmarks does not always demonstrate advanced sequential, semantic, or generative modeling ability. We call for more careful dataset selection and dataset-level diagnostic analysis when using benchmarks to support claims about new recommendation models.
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A simple graph heuristic that outperforms advanced generative recommenders on existing benchmarks, revealing shortcut solvability and calling for better dataset evaluation. Yet these methods are often evaluated on a small set of widely used benchmarks, raising a key question: do...
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Sequential recommendation has increasingly shifted toward generative recommenders that combine sequential patterns with semantic item information. Yet these methods are often evaluated on a small set of widely used benchmarks, raising a key question: do these benchmarks actually...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. We show that this behavior reflects shortcut solvability rather than an artifact of one heuristic. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof align...
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Sequential Recommendation Benchmarking moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 5.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A simple graph heuristic that outperforms advanced generative recommenders on existing benchmarks, revealing shortcut solvability and calling for better dataset evaluation. Yet these methods are often evaluated on a small set of widely used benchmarks, raising a key question: do these benchmarks actually require the advanced modeling capabilities that modern generative recommenders claim to provide?
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Sequential recommendation has increasingly shifted toward generative recommenders that combine sequential patterns with semantic item information. Yet these methods are often evaluated on a small set of widely used benchmarks, raising a key question: do these benchmarks actually require the advanced modeling capabilities that modern generative recommenders claim to provide?
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. We show that this behavior reflects shortcut solvability rather than an artifact of one heuristic. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.
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