ByteDance's SepLRM splits recommendation models around a shared KV cache

_reachsumit · x · 2026-11-11

ByteDance researchers propose SepLRM, a recommendation foundation model (RFM) paradigm on arXiv addressing diminishing ROI in large recommendation models. One shared encoder-decoder RFM encodes long user histories once and exports its final-layer encoder state as a candidate-independent KV cache; multiple independently optimized vertical models query this cache while preserving the same query-KV interaction as their end-to-end counterparts, avoiding repeated long-sequence encoding costs across recommendation stages and business scenarios.

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