#generative-retrieval

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Shopify deploys shared generative discovery model for search and recommendation

The model uses semantic IDs and multi-teacher distillation to improve search relevance by 2.1 points and recommendation recall by 2.65pp.

·2026.11.11 09:00

Google Research Unveils R4T, an RL-Based Search Distillation Technique

Google Research and UIUC unveiled R4T, which distills RL-trained query fan-out behaviors into a 53.9M parameter diffusion model, reducing search latency by 12–20x.

·2026.09.22 15:00