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User modeling plays a fundamental role in industrial recommender systems, either in the matching stage and the ranking stage, in terms of both the customer experience and business revenue. How to extract users' multiple interests…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jiaxuan Xie , Jianxiong Wei , Qingsong Hua , Yu Zhang

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) have gained increasing popularity due to their remarkable proficiency in capturing dynamic user preferences. In the current setup of SRS, a common configuration is to uniformly consider each historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hao Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Zhiding Liu , Junzhe Jiang

Real-world recommendation systems commonly offer diverse content scenarios for users to interact with. Considering the enormous number of users in industrial platforms, it is infeasible to utilize a single unified recommendation model to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chonggang Song , Chunxu Shen , Hao Gu , Yaoming Wu , Lingling Yi , Jie Wen , Chuan Chen

Side-information Integrated Sequential Recommendation (SISR) benefits from auxiliary item information to infer hidden user preferences, which is particularly effective for sparse interactions and cold-start scenarios. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hye-young Kim , Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Ilwoong Baek , Jongwuk Lee

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

Among various recommender techniques, collaborative filtering (CF) is the most successful one. And a key problem in CF is how to represent users and items. Previous works usually represent a user (an item) as a vector of latent factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Gongshan He , Dongxing Zhao , Lixin Ding

Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches struggle with inaccurate posterior approximations and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Jianling Wang , Rex Ying , James Caverlee

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) aims to address the data-sparsity problem by transferring knowledge across domains. Existing CDR methods generally assume that the user-item interaction data is shareable between domains, which leads to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Li Wang , Shoujin Wang , Quangui Zhang , Qiang Wu , Min Xu

In this work, we propose a Unified framework of Sequential Search and Recommendation (UnifiedSSR) for joint learning of user behavior history in both search and recommendation scenarios. Specifically, we consider user-interacted products in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiayi Xie , Shang Liu , Gao Cong , Zhenzhong Chen

Constrained sequential pattern mining aims at identifying frequent patterns on a sequential database of items while observing constraints defined over the item attributes. We introduce novel techniques for constraint-based sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Amin Hosseininasab , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Andre A. Cire

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

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 (SRS) aim to predict users' subsequent choices based on their historical interactions and have found applications in diverse fields such as e-commerce and social media. However, in real-world systems, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Yejing Wang , Zijian Zhang , Feng Tian , Yefeng Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

How to predict precise user preference and how to make efficient retrieval from a big corpus are two major challenges of large-scale industrial recommender systems. In tree-based methods, a tree structure T is adopted as index and each item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Daqing Chang , Jintao Liu , Ziru Xu , Han Li , Han Zhu , Xiaoqiang Zhu

In various web applications like targeted advertising and recommender systems, the available categorical features (e.g., product type) are often of great importance but sparse. As a widely adopted solution, models based on Factorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Wen-Chih Peng , Xue Li , Xiaofang Zhou

Recommender systems have made significant strides in various industries, primarily driven by extensive efforts to enhance recommendation accuracy. However, this pursuit of accuracy has inadvertently given rise to echo chamber/filter bubble…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Tao Zhang , Luwei Yang , Zhibo Xiao , Wen Jiang , Wei Ning

The modeling of users' behaviors is crucial in modern recommendation systems. A lot of research focuses on modeling users' lifelong sequences, which can be extremely long and sometimes exceed thousands of items. These models use the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kaiming Shen , Xichen Ding , Zixiang Zheng , Yuqi Gong , Qianqian Li , Zhongyi Liu , Guannan Zhang

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to capture dynamic user preferences by analyzing item sequences within individual sessions. However, most existing approaches focus mainly on intra-session item relationships, neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Wooseong Yang , Chen Wang , Zihe Song , Weizhi Zhang , Philip S. Yu

With the growth of online shopping for fashion products, accurate fashion recommendation has become a critical problem. Meanwhile, social networks provide an open and new data source for personalized fashion analysis. In this work, we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Haitian Zheng , Kefei Wu , Jong-Hwi Park , Wei Zhu , Jiebo Luo

This paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation, which predicts users' future interactions based on their past behavior. We introduce a new concept, "Integrating Recommendation Systems as a New…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Kai Zheng , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Peng Yu , Qingwei Guo