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Eugene Yan
eugeneyan.com
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I've been nerdsniped by the idea of Semantic IDs.
Here's the result of my training runs:
• RQ-VAE to compress item embeddings into tokens
• SASRec to predict the next item (i.e., 4-tokens) exactly
• Qwen3-8B that can return recs and natural language!
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/semantic-ids/
2025-09-17T02:04:14.110Z