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arXiv: cs.AI preprintsInternational5 November 2026

From Waste to Discovery: Recycling High-Scored Unexposed Candidates in Taobao Feed Recommendation

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arXiv:2611.05997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Helping users discover new interests is vital to the long-term health of industrial recommender systems, yet the usual remedy, boosting exposure of under-explored (discovery) content, often backfires in production. We report URED (Unexposed Recycling for Efficient Discovery), a training-free recall-stage system serving Taobao feed recommendation at Alibaba for over six months to tens of millions of daily active users. It rests on a production-validated insight: naive boosting fails because it injects cold, information-poor candidates that rankers
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