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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

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 predict the next purchasing item according to users' dynamic preference learned from their historical user-item interactions. To improve the performance of recommendation, learning dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Chuan He , Yongchao Liu , Qiang Li , Weiqiang Wang , Xin Fu , Xinyi Fu , Chuntao Hong , Xinwei Yao

Modeling the evolution of user preference is essential in recommender systems. Recently, dynamic graph-based methods have been studied and achieved SOTA for recommendation, majority of which focus on user's stable long-term preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Huixuan Chi , Hao Xu , Hao Fu , Mengya Liu , Mengdi Zhang , Yuji Yang , Qinfen Hao , Wei Wu

We study the problem of making item recommendations to ephemeral groups, which comprise users with limited or no historical activities together. Existing studies target persistent groups with substantial activity history, while ephemeral…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aravind Sankar , Yanhong Wu , Yuhang Wu , Wei Zhang , Hao Yang , Hari Sundaram

Recommender Systems (RS) often rely on representations of users and items in a joint embedding space and on a similarity metric to compute relevance scores. In modern RS, the modules to obtain user and item representations consist of two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Marta Moscati , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

Conversational recommendation systems (CRSs) use multi-turn interaction to capture user preferences and provide personalized recommendations. A fundamental challenge in CRSs lies in effectively understanding user preferences from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xiaolei Wang , Chunxuan Xia , Junyi Li , Fanzhe Meng , Lei Huang , Jinpeng Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Session-based Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are gaining increasing popularity for recommendation task, due to the high autocorrelation of user's behavior on the latest session and the effectiveness of RNN to capture the sequence order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Mei Wang , Weizhi Li , Yan Yan

Sequential recommendation plays an increasingly important role in many e-commerce services such as display advertisement and online shopping. With the rapid development of these services in the last two decades, users have accumulated a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yongji Wu , Lu Yin , Defu Lian , Mingyang Yin , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang

Nowadays, reading or writing comments on captivating videos has emerged as a critical part of the viewing experience on online video platforms. However, existing recommender systems primarily focus on users' interaction behaviors with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Bowen Zheng , Zihan Lin , Enze Liu , Chen Yang , Enyang Bai , Cheng Ling , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Many multimodal recommender systems have been proposed to exploit the rich side information associated with users or items (e.g., user reviews and item images) for learning better user and item representations to improve the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fan Liu , Huilin Chen , Zhiyong Cheng , Anan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Shared-account Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (SCSR) is an emerging yet challenging task that simultaneously considers the shared-account and cross-domain characteristics in the sequential recommendation. Existing works on SCSR are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Lei Guo , Jinyu Zhang , Tong Chen , Xinhua Wang , Hongzhi Yin

The success of recommender systems in modern online platforms is inseparable from the accurate capture of users' personal tastes. In everyday life, large amounts of user feedback data are created along with user-item online interactions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiao Zhou , Danyang Liu , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie

Generative Recommenders (GRs), exemplified by the Hierarchical Sequential Transduction Unit (HSTU), have emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling long user interaction sequences. However, we observe that their "flat-sequence" assumption…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zerui Chen , Heng Chang , Tianying Liu , Chuantian Zhou , Yi Cao , Jiandong Ding , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

In recent years session-based recommendation has emerged as an increasingly applicable type of recommendation. As sessions consist of sequences of events, this type of recommendation is a natural fit for Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Bjørnar Vassøy , Massimiliano Ruocco , Eliezer de Souza da Silva , Erlend Aune

The sequential recommendation system has been widely studied for its promising effectiveness in capturing dynamic preferences buried in users' sequential behaviors. Despite the considerable achievements, existing methods usually focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Xiang Xu , Likang Wu , Sirui Zhao , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Ruiming Tang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSR) aims to incorporate behavior types of interactions for better recommendations. Existing approaches focus on the next-item prediction objective, neglecting the value of integrating the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zihan Liu , Yupeng Hou , Julian McAuley

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide highquality recommendations in conversations. However, most conventional CRS models mainly focus on the dialogue understanding of the current session, ignoring other rich multi-aspect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Shuokai Li , Ruobing Xie , Yongchun Zhu , Xiang Ao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qing He

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

Session-based recommenders, used for making predictions out of users' uninterrupted sequences of actions, are attractive for many applications. Here, for this task we propose using metric learning, where a common embedding space for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Bartłomiej Twardowski , Paweł Zawistowski , Szymon Zaborowski