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Sequential recommender systems have demonstrated a huge success for next-item recommendation by explicitly exploiting the temporal order of users' historical interactions. In practice, user interactions contain more useful temporal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Chen Rui , Liang Guotao , Ma Chenrui , Han Qilong , Li Li , Huang Xiao

Sequential recommendation predicts user preferences over time and has achieved remarkable success. However, the growing length of user interaction sequences and the complex entanglement of evolving user interests and intentions introduce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Haoran Zhang , Jingtong Liu , Jiangzhou Deng , Junpeng Guo

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) could capture dynamic user preferences by modeling historical behaviors ordered in time. Despite effectiveness, focusing only on the \textit{collaborative signals} from behaviors does not fully grasp…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mingyue Cheng , Hao Zhang , Qi Liu , Fajie Yuan , Zhi Li , Zhenya Huang , Enhong Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Li

Capturing the temporal dynamics of user preferences over items is important for recommendation. Existing methods mainly assume that all time steps in user-item interaction history are equally relevant to recommendation, which however does…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Wenjie Pei , Jie Yang , Zhu Sun , Jie Zhang , Alessandro Bozzon , David M. J. Tax

Learning both hierarchical and temporal representation has been among the long-standing challenges of recurrent neural networks. Multiscale recurrent neural networks have been considered as a promising approach to resolve this issue, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Junyoung Chung , Sungjin Ahn , Yoshua Bengio

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are known as powerful models for handling sequential data, and especially widely utilized in various natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we propose Contextual Recurrent Units (CRU) for enhancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Yiming Cui , Wei-Nan Zhang , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Zhipeng Chen , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

User response prediction, which models the user preference w.r.t. the presented items, plays a key role in online services. With two-decade rapid development, nowadays the cumulated user behavior sequences on mature Internet service…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Kan Ren , Jiarui Qin , Yuchen Fang , Weinan Zhang , Lei Zheng , Weijie Bian , Guorui Zhou , Jian Xu , Yong Yu , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Transformers have surpassed RNNs in popularity due to their superior abilities in parallel training and long-term dependency modeling. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in using linear RNNs for efficient sequence modeling. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhen Qin , Songlin Yang , Yiran Zhong

Recommender systems have played a critical role in many web applications to meet user's personalized interests and alleviate the information overload. In this survey, we review the development of recommendation frameworks with the focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chao Huang

The pursuit of improved accuracy in recommender systems has led to the incorporation of user context. Context-aware recommender systems typically handle large amounts of data which must be uploaded and stored on the cloud, putting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Benu Madhab Changmai , Divija Nagaraju , Debi Prasanna Mohanty , Kriti Singh , Kunal Bansal , Sukumar Moharana

In real-world streaming recommender systems, user preferences often dynamically change over time (e.g., a user may have different preferences during weekdays and weekends). Existing bandit-based streaming recommendation models only consider…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Chenglei Shen , Xiao Zhang , Wei Wei , Jun Xu

We present a new recurrent neural network topology to enhance state-of-the-art machine learning systems by incorporating a broader context. Our approach overcomes recent limitations with extended narratives through a multi-layered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Patrick Huber , Jan Niehues , Alex Waibel

Generative Recommenders (GRs), exemplified by the Hierarchical Sequential Transduction Unit (HSTU), have emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling long user interaction sequences. However, we observe that their "flat-sequence" assumption…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zerui Chen , Heng Chang , Tianying Liu , Chuantian Zhou , Yi Cao , Jiandong Ding , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

Sequential recommender systems are an important and demanded area of research. Such systems aim to use the order of interactions in a user's history to predict future interactions. The premise is that the order of interactions and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Anton Klenitskiy , Anna Volodkevich , Anton Pembek , Alexey Vasilev

In recent years, research has been done on applying Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) as recommender systems. Results have been promising, especially in the session-based setting where RNNs have been shown to outperform state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Massimiliano Ruocco , Ole Steinar Lillestøl Skrede , Helge Langseth

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are capable of learning features and long term dependencies from sequential and time-series data. The RNNs have a stack of non-linear units where at least one connection between units forms a directed cycle.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Hojjat Salehinejad , Sharan Sankar , Joseph Barfett , Errol Colak , Shahrokh Valaee

In recent years session-based recommendation has emerged as an increasingly applicable type of recommendation. As sessions consist of sequences of events, this type of recommendation is a natural fit for Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Bjørnar Vassøy , Massimiliano Ruocco , Eliezer de Souza da Silva , Erlend Aune

Shared-account Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (SCSR) task aims to recommend the next item via leveraging the mixed user behaviors in multiple domains. It is gaining immense research attention as more and more users tend to sign up…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Lei Guo , Jinyu Zhang , Li Tang , Tong Chen , Lei Zhu , Hongzhi Yin

Sequential recommendation effectively addresses information overload by modeling users' temporal and sequential interaction patterns. To overcome the limitations of supervision signals, recent approaches have adopted self-supervised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Yuxi Liu , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

Different from most conventional recommendation problems, sequential recommendation focuses on learning users' preferences by exploiting the internal order and dependency among the interacted items, which has received significant attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Liwei Pan , Weike Pan , Meiyan Wei , Hongzhi Yin , Zhong Ming