CIKM 2026 / Recommender Systems

Personalized Task Dependency Graphs for Mitigating Signal Erosion in Multi-Task Recommendation

A CIKM 2026 paper on personalized task dependency graphs for mitigating signal erosion in multi-task recommendation.

Research area

User reactivation, generative recommendation, Semantic-ID tokenizer diagnostics, dynamic retrieval, graph embedding, counterfactual watch-time prediction, and efficient CTR modeling form the main technical line.

Publication record

Authors
F Liu, T Wu, Y Fang, W Zhou, Z Zhou, W Chen, Q Mei, J Zhou, H Chang, Y Cao, J Ding
Venue
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2026
Year
2026
Area
Recommender Systems

Problem

Multi-task recommendation can suffer when learning signals from one task erode or distort the signal needed by another task.

Approach

The paper studies personalized task dependency graphs as a way to model task relationships at a finer granularity than a single global dependency structure.

Scope

The public record should be read as a CIKM 2026 publication; implementation details and non-public evaluation material are not repeated on the homepage.

Takeaway

The work belongs to the recommendation line on reliable multi-objective modeling under changing user, item, and task signals.