Introduction
Discover the power of generative AI for recommendation systems
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1. High-Impact GenAI Enhancements for Recommenders
Choosing your GenAI tool: LLMs, GANs, and diffusion
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Creating quality embeddings with sentence transformers
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Foundational follow-up: The core shift—From item IDs to semantic embeddings
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Summarizing user history for better personalization
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Solving item cold-start with cross-modal embeddings
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Few-shot prompting for personalized explanations
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Data augmentation: Creating "hard negatives" with LLMs
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Foundational follow-up: Augment vs. replace—The LLMERS production pattern
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2. Architecting GenAI-Native Recommender Systems
Foundational follow-up: How LLMs understand—A primer on the transformer
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The generative retrieval architecture
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The key component: Semantic item tokenization
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Building conversational recommenders with tool use and RAG
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Multimodal fusion: How cross-attention works
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Architectural challenge: Managing long-term user memory
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3. Evaluating GenAI Recommenders: Quality, Fairness, and Trust
Evaluating recommendation lists: Diversity and novelty
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Evaluating generated text: ROUGE, BLEU, and BERTScore
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The RAG architecture: A deep dive into factual grounding
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Red teaming: Proactively finding failure modes
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4. Operationalizing GenAI Recommender Systems at Scale
Production infrastructure: Vector databases and model serving
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Foundational follow-up: The two-tower model
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Monitoring for embedding drift and quality degradation
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Scaling for inference: Quantization and knowledge distillation
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5. Conclusion
Course summary
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The future is agentic: Designing recommenders as autonomous agents
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