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Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Sequential recommender systems aim to predict a user's future interests by extracting temporal patterns from their behavioral history. Existing approaches typically employ transformer-based architectures to process long sequences of user…

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Sequential recommendation (SR) systems predict user preferences by analyzing time-ordered interaction sequences. A common challenge for SR is data sparsity, as users typically interact with only a limited number of items. While contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu-Hsuan Huang , Ling Lo , Hongxia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Recommender systems in multi-behavior domains, such as advertising and e-commerce, aim to guide users toward high-value but inherently sparse conversions. Leveraging auxiliary behaviors (e.g., clicks, likes, shares) is therefore essential.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhefan Wang , Guokai Yan , Jinbei Yu , Siyu Gu , Jingyan Chen , Peng Jiang , Zhiqiang Guo , Min Zhang

Session-based recommender systems capture the short-term interest of a user within a session. Session contexts (i.e., a user's high-level interests or intents within a session) are not explicitly given in most datasets, and implicitly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Sejoon Oh , Ankur Bhardwaj , Jongseok Han , Sungchul Kim , Ryan A. Rossi , Srijan Kumar

Sequential recommendation is often considered as a generative task, i.e., training a sequential encoder to generate the next item of a user's interests based on her historical interacted items. Despite their prevalence, these methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Caiming Xiong

Accurate time-series forecasting is crucial in various scientific and industrial domains, yet deep learning models often struggle to capture long-term dependencies and adapt to data distribution shifts over time. We introduce Future-Guided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Skye Gunasekaran , Assel Kembay , Hugo Ladret , Rui-Jie Zhu , Laurent Perrinet , Omid Kavehei , Jason Eshraghian

Characterizing users' interests accurately plays a significant role in an effective recommender system. The sequential recommender system can learn powerful hidden representations of users from successive user-item interactions and dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Lingxiao Zhang , Jiangpeng Yan , Yujiu Yang , Xiu Li

Recommendation system plays an important role in online web applications. Sequential recommender further models user short-term preference through exploiting information from latest user-item interaction history. Most of the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Ye Tao , Can Wang , Lina Yao , Weimin Li , Yonghong Yu

Recommender models aimed at mining users' behavioral patterns have raised great attention as one of the essential applications in daily life. Recent work on graph neural networks (GNNs) or debiasing methods has attained remarkable gains.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xinfeng Wang , Fumiyo Fukumoto , Jin Cui , Yoshimi Suzuki , Jiyi Li , Dongjin Yu

Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of formulating decision making as supervised learning on offline-collected trajectories. Powerful sequence models, such as GPT or BERT, are often employed to encode the trajectories. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zilai Zeng , Ce Zhang , Shijie Wang , Chen Sun

Sequential recommendation aims to model users' evolving interests from noisy and non-stationary interaction streams, where long-term preferences, short-term intents, and localized behavioral fluctuations may coexist across temporal scales.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Peilin Liu , Zhiquan Ji , Gang Yan

Users try to articulate their complex information needs during search sessions by reformulating their queries. To make this process more effective, search engines provide related queries to help users in specifying the information need in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mostafa Dehghani , Sascha Rothe , Enrique Alfonseca , Pascal Fleury

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

While generative recommendations (GR) possess strong sequential reasoning capabilities, they face significant challenges when processing extremely long user behavior sequences: the high computational cost forces practical sequence lengths…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yu Zhou , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Ji Liu , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Sequential recommendation aims to choose the most suitable items for a user at a specific timestamp given historical behaviors. Existing methods usually model the user behavior sequence based on the transition-based methods like Markov…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Fengzhu Wu , Sili Zhang , Hao Gu , Yuexing Hao , Yuguang

Recurrent neural networks for session-based recommendation have attracted a lot of attention recently because of their promising performance. repeat consumption is a common phenomenon in many recommendation scenarios (e.g., e-commerce,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jing Li , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke

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

Given e-commerce scenarios that user profiles are invisible, session-based recommendation is proposed to generate recommendation results from short sessions. Previous work only considers the user's sequential behavior in the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Jing Li , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Ma

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