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GenRec: An LLM-Backed Recommendation Ranker at Netflix

Netflix describes GenRec, an LLM-backed ranker that turns user histories and context into text, post-trains a foundation model for ranking, and scores the catalog in one pass. In the configuration reported, it beat a mature production baseline while using far fewer Phase-2 examples and input signals.

By Ying Li, Shradha Sehgal, Arjun Rao, Rein Houthooft, Yaochen Zhu, and Ashish Rastogi