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Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent of the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Biswarup Bhattacharya , Iftikhar Burhanuddin , Abhilasha Sancheti , Kushal Satya

Sequential recommender systems (SRSs) aim to predict the subsequent items which may interest users via comprehensively modeling users' complex preference embedded in the sequence of user-item interactions. However, most of existing SRSs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chengkai Huang , Shoujin Wang , Xianzhi Wang , Lina Yao

Reciprocal recommender system (RRS), considering a two-way matching between two parties, has been widely applied in online platforms like online dating and recruitment. Existing RRS models mainly capture static user preferences, which have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Bowen Zheng , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yang Song , Hengshu Zhu

Sequential recommendation systems alleviate the problem of information overload, and have attracted increasing attention in the literature. Most prior works usually obtain an overall representation based on the user's behavior sequence,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Gaode Chen , Xinghua Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Cong Xue , Ji Xiang

Session-based recommendation aims to predict a user's next action based on previous actions in the current session. The major challenge is to capture authentic and complete user preferences in the entire session. Recent work utilizes graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jiayan Guo , Yaming Yang , Xiangchen Song , Yuan Zhang , Yujing Wang , Jing Bai , Yan Zhang

Sequential recommendation (SR) models often capture user preferences based on the historically interacted item IDs, which usually obtain sub-optimal performance when the interaction history is limited. Content-based sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Donglin Zhou , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Sequential recommendations have made great strides in accurately predicting the future behavior of users. However, seeking accuracy alone may bring side effects such as unfair and overspecialized recommendation results. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Jiayi Chen , Wen Wu , Liye Shi , Yu Ji , Wenxin Hu , Wei Zheng , Liang He

Sequential recommender infers users' evolving psychological motivations from historical interactions to recommend the next preferred items. Most existing methods compress recent behaviors into a single vector and optimize it toward a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yicheng Di , Yuan Liu , Zhi Chen , Jingcai Guo

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to model users dynamic preferences from a series of interactions. A pivotal challenge in user modeling for SR lies in the inherent variability of user preferences. An effective SR model is expected to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Juyong Jiang , Peiyan Zhang , Yingtao Luo , Chaozhuo Li , Jae Boum Kim , Kai Zhang , Senzhang Wang , Xing Xie , Sunghun Kim

Intent learning, which aims to learn users' intents for user understanding and item recommendation, has become a hot research spot in recent years. However, existing methods suffer from complex and cumbersome alternating optimization,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yue Liu , Shihao Zhu , Jun Xia , Yingwei Ma , Jian Ma , Xinwang Liu , Shengju Yu , Kejun Zhang , Wenliang Zhong

Current session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) mainly focus on maximizing recommendation accuracy, while few studies have been devoted to improve diversity beyond accuracy. Meanwhile, it is unclear how the accuracy-oriented SBRSs perform…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Qing Yin , Hui Fang , Zhu Sun , Yew-Soon Ong

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to predict future interactions based on user's historical sequential interactions from multiple domains. Generally, a key challenge of CDSR is how to mine precise cross-domain user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiangxia Cao , Xin Cong , Jiawei Sheng , Tingwen Liu , Bin Wang

The sequential recommendation system utilizes historical user interactions to predict preferences. Effectively integrating diverse user behavior patterns with rich multimodal information of items to enhance the accuracy of sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xiaoxi Cui , Weihai Lu , Yu Tong , Yiheng Li , Zhejun Zhao

Modern Sequential Recommendation (SR) models commonly utilize modality features to represent items, motivated in large part by recent advancements in language and vision modeling. To do so, several works completely replace ID embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Liam Collins , Bhuvesh Kumar , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Donald Loveland , Leonardo Neves , Neil Shah

Precise user modeling is critical for online personalized recommendation services. Generally, users' interests are diverse and are not limited to a single aspect, which is particularly evident when their behaviors are observed for a longer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jianxun Lian , Iyad Batal , Zheng Liu , Akshay Soni , Eun Yong Kang , Yajun Wang , Xing Xie

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict items that users may be interested in based on their historical behavior sequences. We revisit SR from a novel information-theoretic perspective and find that conventional sequential modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Wenjia Xie , Hao Wang , Luankang Zhang , Rui Zhou , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Capturing users' precise preferences is a fundamental problem in large-scale recommender system. Currently, item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods are common matching approaches in industry. However, they are not effective to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Fuyu Lv , Taiwei Jin , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Quan Lin , Keping Yang , Wilfred Ng

Recommendation systems play a critical role in enhancing user experience and engagement in various online platforms. Traditional methods, such as Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Content-Based Filtering (CBF), rely heavily on past user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaochuan Xu , Zeqiu Xu , Peiyang Yu , Jiani Wang

Sequential recommendation (SR) systems excel at capturing users' dynamic preferences by leveraging their interaction histories. Most existing SR systems assign a single embedding vector to each item to represent its features, and various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long

Sequential recommender systems have shown effective suggestions by capturing users' interest drift. There have been two groups of existing sequential models: user- and item-centric models. The user-centric models capture personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Dongmin Hyun , Chanyoung Park , Junsu Cho , Hwanjo Yu