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BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a recently introduced language representation model based upon the transfer learning paradigm. We extend its fine-tuning procedure to address one of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

Large language models have recently shown promise for multimodal recommendation, particularly with text and image inputs. Yet real-world recommendation signals extend far beyond these modalities. To reflect this, we formalize recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zijie Lei , Tao Feng , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Guanyu Lin , Shuang Yang , Ge Liu , Jiaxuan You

Recommending points of interest (POIs) is a challenging task that requires extracting comprehensive location data from location-based social media platforms. To provide effective location-based recommendations, it's important to analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Syed Raza Bashir , Shaina Raza , Vojislav Misic

Sequential recommendation (SR), which encodes user activity to predict the next action, has emerged as a widely adopted strategy in developing commercial personalized recommendation systems. A critical component of modern SR models is the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jun Yuan , Guohao Cai , Zhenhua Dong

Current sequential recommender systems are proposed to tackle the dynamic user preference learning with various neural techniques, such as Transformer and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, inference from the highly sparse user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chunzhen Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin

Session-based recommender systems have attracted much attention recently. To capture the sequential dependencies, existing methods resort either to data augmentation techniques or left-to-right style autoregressive training.Since these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Fajie Yuan , Xiangnan He , Haochuan Jiang , Guibing Guo , Jian Xiong , Zhezhao Xu , Yilin Xiong

Transformer architectures, capable of capturing sequential dependencies in the history of user interactions, have become the dominant approach in sequential recommender systems. Despite their success, such models consider sequence elements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Artur Gimranov , Viacheslav Yusupov , Elfat Sabitov , Tatyana Matveeva , Anton Lysenko , Ruslan Israfilov , Evgeny Frolov

Sequential recommendation aims to model dynamic user behavior from historical interactions. Existing methods rely on either explicit item IDs or general textual features for sequence modeling to understand user preferences. While promising,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiacheng Li , Ming Wang , Jin Li , Jinmiao Fu , Xin Shen , Jingbo Shang , Julian McAuley

Today, the acquisition of various behavioral log data has enabled deeper understanding of customer preferences and future behaviors in the marketing field. In particular, multimodal deep learning has achieved highly accurate predictions by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Junichiro Niimi

Sequential Recommendation (SeqRec) aims to predict the next item by capturing sequential patterns from users' historical interactions, playing a crucial role in many real-world recommender systems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xu Chen , Wen Chen , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang

Reinforcement learning-based recommender systems have recently gained popularity. However, the design of the reward function, on which the agent relies to optimize its recommendation policy, is often not straightforward. Exploring the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Siyu Wang , Xiaocong Chen , Dietmar Jannach , Lina Yao

Recent advancements in diffusion models have shown promising results in sequential recommendation (SR). Existing approaches predominantly rely on implicit conditional diffusion models, which compress user behaviors into a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hongtao Huang , Chengkai Huang , Tong Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Wen Hu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Sequential recommendation recommends items based on sequences of users' historical actions. The key challenge in it is how to effectively model the influence from distant actions to the action to be predicted, i.e., recognizing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Renqin Cai , Qinglei Wang , Chong Wang , Xiaobing Liu

Sequential recommendation involves automatically recommending the next item to users based on their historical item sequence. While most prior research employs RNN or transformer methods to glean information from the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiaofan Zhou

Sequential recommendation (SR) models predict a user's next interaction by modeling their historical behaviors. Transformer-based SR methods, notably BERT4Rec, effectively capture these patterns but incur significant computational overhead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shankar Veludandi , Gulrukh Kurdistan , Uzma Mushtaque

Learning user representations based on historical behaviors lies at the core of modern recommender systems. Recent advances in sequential recommenders have convincingly demonstrated high capability in extracting effective user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Shengyu Zhang , Dong Yao , Zhou Zhao , Tat-seng Chua , Fei Wu

In this work, we examine the advantages of using multiple types of behaviour in recommendation systems. Intuitively, each user has to do some implicit actions (e.g., click) before making an explicit decision (e.g., purchase). Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Quyen Tran , Lam Tran , Linh Chu Hai , Linh Ngo Van , Khoat Than

Sequential patterns play an important role in building modern recommender systems. To this end, several recommender systems have been built on top of Markov Chains and Recurrent Models (among others). Although these sequential models have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-28 An Yan , Shuo Cheng , Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

In order to model the evolution of user preference, we should learn user/item embeddings based on time-ordered item purchasing sequences, which is defined as Sequential Recommendation (SR) problem. Existing methods leverage sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Jiawei Zhang , Yun Xiong , Lei Zheng , Philip S. Yu

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme