SIDInspector: A Mapping-First Diagnostic Resource for Semantic-ID Tokenizers

June 09, 2026 ยท Grace Period ยท ๐Ÿ› CIKM 2026

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Authors Jiandong Ding, Heng Chang, Huijie Qin, Tianying Liu arXiv ID 2606.10375 Category cs.IR: Information Retrieval Citations 0 Venue CIKM 2026
Abstract
Semantic-ID (\sid) tokenizers are increasingly reused as standalone artifacts in generative recommendation: an exported item-to-code mapping becomes the address space that a later sequence generator must use. These mappings rarely come with a common inspection interface, so coverage gaps, full-code aliasing, behaviorally weak prefixes, tail compression, and prefix fan-out are often found only after downstream training. We present \tool, a mapping-first diagnostic resource for \sid tokenizer artifacts. \tool defines a small adapter contract over item mappings, metadata, interactions, and optional generator traces; validates the contract; and reports mapping-level probes for utilization, aliasing, neighborhood alignment, popularity allocation, and structural cost, with hooks for temporal churn and generator traces. \tool reports inspectable artifact profiles before downstream leaderboard scores. The released resource covers four tokenizer artifact lines: a same-item GRID/RQ-KMeans-style and ReSID/GAOQ contrast on 23,742 Musical items, plus released LETTER and LC-Rec item-index artifacts. In the Musical contrast, the GRID-style feature-text export has 3,749 unique full codes and a 0.977 full-code aliasing rate, while ReSID/GAOQ is aliasing-free in its exported mapping. Yet the strongest prefix--co-occurrence alignment comes from a deterministic category-prefix control, not from either learned export row (0.447 versus 0.154 and 0.055--0.080), showing that addressability and behaviorally meaningful prefixes should be inspected separately. Cross-domain, fixed-reranker, and mechanism-probe checks support the same diagnostic direction: prefix alignment is a candidate-exposure signal, while final ranking quality remains a downstream model question.
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