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Transformer-based encoder-decoder models that generate outputs in a left-to-right fashion have become standard for sequence-to-sequence tasks. In this paper, we propose a framework for decoding that produces sequences from the "outside-in":…

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Sequential recommendation methods can capture dynamic user preferences from user historical interactions to achieve better performance. However, most existing methods only use past information extracted from user historical interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiafeng Xia , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Li Shang , Ning Gu

Sequential Recommendation is a prominent topic in current research, which uses user behavior sequence as an input to predict future behavior. By assessing the correlation strength of historical behavior through the dot product, the model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jiayi Chen , Wen Wu , Liye Shi , Yu Ji , Wenxin Hu , Xi Chen , Wei Zheng , Liang He

Recent recommender system advancements have focused on developing sequence-based and graph-based approaches. Both approaches proved useful in modeling intricate relationships within behavioral data, leading to promising outcomes in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Vladimir Baikalov , Evgeny Frolov

In order to develop effective sequential recommenders, a series of sequence representation learning (SRL) methods are proposed to model historical user behaviors. Most existing SRL methods rely on explicit item IDs for developing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yupeng Hou , Shanlei Mu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Ji-Rong Wen

The ability of artificial intelligence agents to make optimal decisions and generalise them to different domains and tasks is compromised in complex scenarios. One way to address this issue has focused on learning efficient representations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Corina Catarau-Cotutiu , Esther Mondragon , Eduardo Alonso

Sequential recommendation tasks, which aim to predict the next item a user will interact with, typically rely on models trained solely on historical data. However, in real-world scenarios, user behavior can fluctuate in the long interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhaoqi Yang , Yanan Wang , Yong Ge

Multi-behavior recommendation aims to predict user conversions by modeling various interaction types that carry distinct intent signals. Recently, generative sequence modeling methods have emerged as an important paradigm for multi-behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wenxuan Yang , Xiaoyang Xu , Hanyu Zhang , Zhexuan Xu , Wanqiang Xiong , Zhaoqun Chen

The Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) were proposed in the natural language process (NLP) and shows promising results. Recently researchers applied the BERT to source-code representation learning and reported…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Lan Zhang , Chen Cao , Zhilong Wang , Peng Liu

Understanding user interests is crucial for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In sequential recommendation, pre-training from user historical behaviors through self-supervised learning can better comprehend user dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ruidong Han , Qianzhong Li , He Jiang , Rui Li , Yurou Zhao , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

Recently, sequential recommendation has been adapted to the LLM paradigm to enjoy the power of LLMs. LLM-based methods usually formulate recommendation information into natural language and the model is trained to predict the next item in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Hanbing Wang , Xiaorui Liu , Wenqi Fan , Xiangyu Zhao , Venkataramana Kini , Devendra Yadav , Fei Wang , Zhen Wen , Jiliang Tang , Hui Liu

Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

Real-world multinational e-commerce companies, such as Amazon and eBay, serve in multiple countries and regions. Some markets are data-scarce, while others are data-rich. In recent years, cross-market recommendation (XMR) has been proposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zheng Hu , Satoshi Nakagawa , Shi-Min Cai , Fuji Ren

Transformer-based sequential recommendation (TSR) models have shown superior performance in recommendation systems, where the quality of item representations plays a crucial role. Classical representation methods integrate item features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hao Deng , Haibo Xing , Kanefumi Matsuyama , Yulei Huang , Jinxin Hu , Hong Wen , Jia Xu , Zulong Chen , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Lifelong user behavior sequences are crucial for capturing user interests and predicting user responses in modern recommendation systems. A two-stage paradigm is typically adopted to handle these long sequences: a subset of relevant…

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Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same idea also applies naturally to sequential decision making,…

Sequential recommendation task aims to predict user preference over items in the future given user historical behaviors. The order of user behaviors implies that there are resourceful sequential patterns embedded in the behavior history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jiarui Qin , Kan Ren , Yuchen Fang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Top-$N$ sequential recommendation models each user as a sequence of items interacted in the past and aims to predict top-$N$ ranked items that a user will likely interact in a `near future'. The order of interaction implies that sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Jiaxi Tang , Ke Wang

Session-based recommendation is the task of predicting the next item a user will interact with, often without access to historical user data. In this work, we introduce Sequential Masked Modeling, a novel approach for encoder-only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Anis Redjdal , Luis Pinto , Michel Desmarais

This paper presents a semantic course recommendation system for students using a self-supervised contrastive learning approach built upon BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). Traditional BERT embeddings suffer…

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