Do We Really Need Specialization? Evaluating Generalist Text Embeddings for Zero-Shot Recommendation and Search

Matteo Attimonelli, Alessandro De Bellis, Claudio Pomo, Dietmar Jannach, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Tommaso Di Noia. Do We Really Need Specialization? Evaluating Generalist Text Embeddings for Zero-Shot Recommendation and Search. In Mária Bieliková, Pavel Kordík, Markus Schedl, Marco de Gemmis, Sole Pera, Rodrigo Alves, Olivier Jeunen, Vito Ostuni, editors, Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2025, Prague, Czech Republic, September 22-26, 2025. pages 575-580, ACM, 2025. [doi]

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