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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…

Generative models have emerged as a promising utility to enhance recommender systems. It is essential to model both item content and user-item collaborative interactions in a unified generative framework for better recommendation. Although…

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Capturing the dynamics in user preference is crucial to better predict user future behaviors because user preferences often drift over time. Many existing recommendation algorithms -- including both shallow and deep ones -- often model such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chao Chen , Dongsheng Li , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Transformer models have achieved remarkable success in sequential recommender systems (SRSs). However, computing the attention matrix in traditional dot-product attention mechanisms results in a quadratic complexity with sequence lengths,…

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To provide more accurate, diverse, and explainable recommendation, it is compulsory to go beyond modeling user-item interactions and take side information into account. Traditional methods like factorization machine (FM) cast it as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Yixin Cao , Meng Liu , Tat-Seng Chua

Sequential fashion recommendation is of great significance in online fashion shopping, which accounts for an increasing portion of either fashion retailing or online e-commerce. The key to building an effective sequential fashion…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yujuan Ding , Yunshan Ma , Wai Keung Wong , Tat-Seng Chua

Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) predict users' next interacted items based on their historical activities. While most SBRSs capture purchasing intentions locally within each session, capturing items' global information across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yu Wang , Amin Javari , Janani Balaji , Walid Shalaby , Tyler Derr , Xiquan Cui

Incorporating knowledge graph into recommender systems has attracted increasing attention in recent years. By exploring the interlinks within a knowledge graph, the connectivity between users and items can be discovered as paths, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Xiang Wang , Dingxian Wang , Canran Xu , Xiangnan He , Yixin Cao , Tat-Seng Chua

Lifelong user behavior sequences are crucial for capturing user interests and predicting user responses in modern recommendation systems. A two-stage paradigm is typically adopted to handle these long sequences: a subset of relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ningya Feng , Junwei Pan , Jialong Wu , Baixu Chen , Ximei Wang , Qian Li , Xian Hu , Jie Jiang , Mingsheng Long

Transformer-based sequential recommenders, such as SASRec or BERT4Rec, typically rely solely on learned item ID embeddings, making them vulnerable to the item cold-start problem, particularly in environments with dynamic item catalogs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jan Malte Lichtenberg , Antonio De Candia , Matteo Ruffini

Sequential recommendation predicts user preferences over time and has achieved remarkable success. However, the growing length of user interaction sequences and the complex entanglement of evolving user interests and intentions introduce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Haoran Zhang , Jingtong Liu , Jiangzhou Deng , Junpeng Guo

Sequential recommendation (SR) is traditionally formulated as next-item prediction over a chronological sequence of interacted items. Although recent generative recommendation (GR) methods introduce new machinery, such as semantic IDs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yingyi Zhang , Junyi Li , Yejing Wang , Wenlin Zhang , Xiaowei Qian , Sheng Zhang , Yue Feng , Yichao Wang , Yong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xianneng Li

Sequential recommendation is essential in modern recommender systems, aiming to predict the next item a user may interact with based on their historical behaviors. However, real-world scenarios are often dynamic and subject to shifts in…

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Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that formulates the recommendations into a text-to-text generation task, harnessing the vast knowledge of large language models. However, existing studies focus on considering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sunkyung Lee , Seongmin Park , Jonghyo Kim , Mincheol Yoon , Jongwuk Lee

Multimedia recommendations aim to use rich multimedia content to enhance historical user-item interaction information, which can not only indicate the content relatedness among items but also reveal finer-grained preferences of users. In…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xian Mo , Fei Liu , Rui Tang , Jintao , Gao , Hao Liu

Modeling user preference from his historical sequences is one of the core problems of sequential recommendation. Existing methods in this field are widely distributed from conventional methods to deep learning methods. However, most of them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu , Xueli Yu , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang

Recommender systems have played a critical role in many web applications to meet user's personalized interests and alleviate the information overload. In this survey, we review the development of recommendation frameworks with the focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chao Huang

Using graph models with relational information in recommender systems has shown promising results. Yet, most methods are transductive, i.e., they are based on dimensionality reduction architectures. Hence, they require heavy retraining…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Theis E. Jendal , Matteo Lissandrini , Peter Dolog , Katja Hose

The evolution of recommender systems has shifted from traditional collaborative filtering to LLM-based agentic systems, which rely on semantic user and item memories to make predictions. However, existing agents maintain these memories in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Weixin Chen , Yuhan Zhao , Jingyuan Huang , Zihe Ye , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Li Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Sequential recommendation is an important task to predict the next-item to access based on a sequence of interacted items. Most existing works learn user preference as the transition pattern from the previous item to the next one, ignoring…

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