Pinterest's PinGER: generative retrieval serving one token per item with semantic IDs

_reachsumit · x · 2026-10-28

Pinterest presents PinGER, a generative retriever that replaces nearest-neighbor search. It trains with an asymmetric attention mask under semantic ID supervision, but at serving time costs only one token per item. Paper linked in the post.

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