@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-preference-shapes, title = "Preference Shapes Relevance: Cross-component Hierarchical Semantic Alignment for Personalized Generative Retrieval", author = "Zhang, Gaoming and Jiang, Angqing and Song, Jianchun and Qi, Kena and Chen, Dayao and Lin, Wei and Lian, Defu", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.508/", pages = "10639--10660", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }