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The recommendation of points of interest (POIs) is essential in location-based social networks. It makes it easier for users and locations to share information. Recently, researchers tend to recommend POIs by treating them as large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Syed Raza Bashir , Vojislav Misic

Recommender systems help users deal with information overload by providing tailored item suggestions to them. The recommendation of news is often considered to be challenging, since the relevance of an article for a user can depend on a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira , Dietmar Jannach , Adilson Marques da Cunha

Session-based recommendation is gaining increasing attention due to its practical value in predicting the intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. Emerging efforts incorporate various side information to alleviate inherent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Chenliang Li , Bowei He , Hongfei Lin , Chen Ma , Fenglong Ma

Session-based recommendation aims to predict items that an anonymous user would like to purchase based on her short behavior sequence. The current approaches towards session-based recommendation only focus on modeling users' interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Liang Yang , Chenliang Li , Fenglong Ma , Haifeng Liu , Hongfei Lin

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is mainly based on anonymous user interaction sequences to recommend the items that the next user is most likely to click. Currently, the most popular and high-performing SBR methods primarily leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shuo Zhang , Xiao Li , Jiayi Wu , Fan Yang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next item for recommendation based on previously recorded sessions of user interaction. The majority of existing approaches to SR focus on modeling the transition patterns of items. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiahao Yuan , Wendi Ji , Dell Zhang , Jinwei Pan , Xiaoling Wang

Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict users' next click based on their behavior within a short period, which is crucial for online platforms. However, most existing SR methods somewhat ignore the fact that user preference is not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kai Ouyang , Xianghong Xu , Miaoxin Chen , Zuotong Xie , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shuangyong Song , Yu Zhao

Session-based recommender systems typically focus on using only the triplet (user_id, timestamp, item_id) to make predictions of users' next actions. In this paper, we aim to utilize side information to help recommender systems catch…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yukun Jiang , Leo Guo , Xinyi Chen , Jing Xi Liu

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is a task that aims to predict items based on anonymous sequences of user behaviors in a session. While there are methods that leverage rich context information in sessions for SBR, most of them have the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zhihui Zhang , JianXiang Yu , Xiang Li

Session based recommendation provides an attractive alternative to the traditional feature engineering approach to recommendation. Feature engineering approaches require hand tuned features of the users history to be created to produce a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-18 David Rohde , Stephen Bonner

News recommendation for anonymous readers is a useful but challenging task for many news portals, where interactions between readers and articles are limited within a temporary login session. Previous works tend to formulate session-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shansan Gong , Kenny Q. Zhu

Recommender systems (RSs) have been playing an increasingly important role for informed consumption, services, and decision-making in the overloaded information era and digitized economy. In recent years, session-based recommender systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Shoujin Wang , Longbing Cao , Yan Wang , Quan Z. Sheng , Mehmet Orgun , Defu Lian

While personalised recommendations are successful in domains like retail, where large volumes of user feedback on items are available, the generation of automatic recommendations in data-sparse domains, like insurance purchasing, is an open…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Simone Borg Bruun , Maria Maistro , Christina Lioma

The KNN approach, which is widely used in recommender systems because of its efficiency, robustness and interpretability, is proposed for session-based recommendation recently and outperforms recurrent neural network models. It captures the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yunming Ye , Feng Liu , Yuzhou Zhang

In information recommendation, a session refers to a sequence of user actions within a specific time frame. Session-based recommender systems aim to capture short-term preferences and generate relevant recommendations. However, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yongzhi Jin , Kazushi Okamoto , Kei Harada , Atsushi Shibata , Koki Karube

An ultimate goal of recommender systems (RS) is to improve user engagement. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising paradigm for this goal, as it directly optimizes overall performance of sequential recommendation. However, many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Guoxi Zhang , Xing Yao , Xuanji Xiao

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

A common approach to personalization in large language models (LLMs) is to incorporate a subset of the user memory into the prompt at inference time to guide the model's generation. Existing methods select these subsets primarily using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jillian Fisher , Jennifer Neville , Chan Young Park

Session-based recommendation is devoted to characterizing preferences of anonymous users based on short sessions. Existing methods mostly focus on mining limited item co-occurrence patterns exposed by item ID within sessions, while ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Chenliang Li , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

It is not accurate to make recommendations only based one single current session. Therefore, multi-session-based recommendation(MSBR) is a solution for the problem. Compared with the previous MSBR models, we have made three improvements in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zihan Wang , Gang Wu , Yan Wang