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Recently, significant progress has been made in sequential recommendation with deep learning. Existing neural sequential recommendation models usually rely on the item prediction loss to learn model parameters or data representations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Kun Zhou , Hui Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yutao Zhu , Sirui Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

As the core algorithm in recommendation systems, collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms inevitably face the problem of data sparsity. Since CF captures similar users and items for recommendations, it is effective to augment the lacking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yunze Luo , Yinjie Jiang , Gaode Chen , Jingchi Wang , Shicheng Wang , Ruina Sun , Jiang Yuezihan , Jun Zhang , Jian Liang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Kaigui Bian

Sequential models that encode user activity for next action prediction have become a popular design choice for building web-scale personalized recommendation systems. Traditional methods of sequential recommendation either utilize…

Representation learning in sequential recommendation is critical for accurately modeling user interaction patterns and improving recommendation precision. However, existing approaches predominantly emphasize item-to-item transitions, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yang Liu , Yitong Wang , Chenyue Feng

Sequential recommendation leverages interaction sequences to predict forthcoming user behaviors, crucial for crafting personalized recommendations. However, the true preferences of a user are inherently complex and high-dimensional, while…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shu Chen , Jinwei Luo , Weike Pan , Jiangxing Yu , Xin Huang , Zhong Ming

This paper explores the problem of ranking short social media posts with respect to user queries using neural networks. Instead of starting with a complex architecture, we proceed from the bottom up and examine the effectiveness of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Peng Shi , Jinfeng Rao , Jimmy Lin

Transformer has shown promising results in many sequence to sequence transformation tasks recently. It utilizes a number of feed-forward self-attention layers to replace the recurrent neural networks (RNN) in attention-based encoder decoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pan Zhou , Ruchao Fan , Wei Chen , Jia Jia

The goal of recommender systems is to provide ordered item lists to users that best match their interests. As a critical task in the recommendation pipeline, re-ranking has received increasing attention in recent years. In contrast to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yi Li , Jieming Zhu , Weiwen Liu , Liangcai Su , Guohao Cai , Qi Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xi Xiao , Xiuqiang He

Recent advances in correlation-based sequential recommendation systems have demonstrated substantial success. Specifically, the attention-based model outperforms other RNN-based and Markov chains-based models by capturing both short- and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yunbo Hou , Tianle Yang , Ruijie Li , Li He , Liang Wang , Weiping Li , Bo Zheng , Guojie Song

We propose a topic modeling approach to the prediction of preferences in pairwise comparisons. We develop a new generative model for pairwise comparisons that accounts for multiple shared latent rankings that are prevalent in a population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Weicong Ding , Prakash Ishwar , Venkatesh Saligrama

Modeling time-evolving preferences of users with their sequential item interactions, has attracted increasing attention in many online applications. Hence, sequential recommender systems have been developed to learn the dynamic user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Jian Pei

We introduce EigenRec; a versatile and efficient Latent-Factor framework for Top-N Recommendations that includes the well-known PureSVD algorithm as a special case. EigenRec builds a low dimensional model of an inter-item proximity matrix…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos , Vassilis Kalantzis , Efstratios Gallopoulos , John D. Garofalakis

Personalized content marketing has become a crucial strategy for digital platforms, aiming to deliver tailored advertisements and recommendations that match user preferences. Traditional recommendation systems often suffer from two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ruihan Luo , Xuanjing Chen , Ziyang Ding

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-based models such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

In the era of information explosion, Recommender Systems (RS) are essential for alleviating information overload and providing personalized user experiences. Recent advances in diffusion-based generative recommenders have shown promise in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chengyi Liu , Xiao Chen , Shijie Wang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved great success in the recommender systems (RS) domain. However, to achieve remarkable performance, DNN-based recommender models often require numerous parameters, which inevitably bring redundant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yang Sun , Fajie Yuan , Min Yang , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Shen Li , Xiaoyan Zhao

The modern recommender systems are facing an increasing challenge of modelling and predicting the dynamic and context-rich user preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering and content-based methods often struggle to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yitong Li , Raoul Grasman

Neighbor-based collaborative ranking (NCR) techniques follow three consecutive steps to recommend items to each target user: first they calculate the similarities among users, then they estimate concordance of pairwise preferences to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Bita Shams , Saman Haratizadeh

The goal of text ranking is to generate an ordered list of texts retrieved from a corpus in response to a query. Although the most common formulation of text ranking is search, instances of the task can also be found in many natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jimmy Lin , Rodrigo Nogueira , Andrew Yates

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