@article{sapostepalignedpolicyoptimizationforreas, title = {SAPO: Step-Aligned Policy Optimization for Reasoning-Based Generative Recommendation}, author = {Zaiyi Zheng and Guanghui Min and Yaochen Zhu and Liang Wu and Liangjie Hong and Chen Chen and Jundong Li}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.17648}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17648}, }