Intent-Driven Semantic ID Generation for Grounded Conversational News Recommendation
Hongyang Su, Beibei Kong, Lei Cheng, Chengxiang Zhuo, Zang Li, Chenyun Yu
Conversational news recommendation requires grounding each suggestion in a rapidly evolving article corpus while addressing implicit user intents that lack explicit retrievable keywords. To characterize this scenario, we identify 6 intent types from production dialogues: five are implicit and pose fundamental challenges to standard RAG pipelines, forming a critical retrieve-first bottleneck. To address these issues, we introduce intent-driven Semantic ID (SID) generation under a Generate-then-Match paradigm. With two-stage training that consists of multi-task SID alignment and GPT-4 Chain-of-Thought distillation, an LLM maps diverse intents to hierarchical SID prefixes, which are then fuzzy-matched to the current news pool to guarantee fully grounded recommendations. Profile-Aware Dual-Signal Reasoning (PADR) further enables cold-start users to obtain valid recommendations using only profiles. On a mainstream Chinese news platform, our 7B model achieves 0% hallucination and 12.4% L1 match in the 152K open-generation SID space (4 \times random baseline). It matches GPT-4+Hybrid RAG on L1 while surpassing it on finer-grained metrics (L2 2 \times, Category +1.2pp) at \sim 100 \times lower cost. Cold-start users, where existing baselines score 0%, achieve 18.0% L1 (6 \times random), the highest among all user groups.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track) · 2026 · 正式发表