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User Behavior Modeling (UBM) plays a critical role in user interest learning, which has been extensively used in recommender systems. Crucial interactive patterns between users and items have been exploited, which brings compelling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Zhicheng He , Weiwen Liu , Wei Guo , Jiarui Qin , Yingxue Zhang , Yaochen Hu , Ruiming Tang

User behavior sequence modeling, which captures user interest from rich historical interactions, is pivotal for industrial recommendation systems. Despite breakthroughs in ranking-stage models capable of leveraging ultra-long behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yue Meng , Cheng Guo , Xiaohui Hu , Honghu Deng , Yi Cao , Tong Liu , Bo Zheng

In an era of information explosion, recommendation systems play an important role in people's daily life by facilitating content exploration. It is known that user activeness, i.e., number of behaviors, tends to follow a long-tail…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zheqi Lv , Feng Wang , Shengyu Zhang , Kun Kuang , Hongxia Yang , Fei Wu

Modeling user interests is crucial in real-world recommender systems. In this paper, we present a new user interest representation model for personalized recommendation. Specifically, the key novelty behind our model is that it explicitly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Shuai Zhang , Huoyu Liu , Aston Zhang , Yue Hu , Ce Zhang , Yumeng Li , Tanchao Zhu , Shaojian He , Wenwu Ou

Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention in Recommendation Systems (RS) due to their extensive world knowledge and robust reasoning capabilities. However, a critical challenge lies in enabling LLMs to effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yu Xia , Rui Zhong , Hao Gu , Wei Yang , Chi Lu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Traditional recommendation systems are subject to a strong feedback loop by learning from and reinforcing past user-item interactions, which in turn limits the discovery of novel user interests. To address this, we introduce a hybrid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jianling Wang , Haokai Lu , Yifan Liu , He Ma , Yueqi Wang , Yang Gu , Shuzhou Zhang , Ningren Han , Shuchao Bi , Lexi Baugher , Ed Chi , Minmin Chen

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

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for sequential recommendation. However, current LLM-based approaches face critical limitations in modeling users' long-term and diverse interests. First, due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Jingyi Zhou , Cheng Chen , Kai Zuo , Manjie Xu , Zhendong Fu , Yibo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

User intention which often changes dynamically is considered to be an important factor for modeling users in the design of recommendation systems. Recent studies are starting to focus on predicting user intention (what users want) beyond…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Arpita Chaudhuri , Debasis Samanta , Monalisa Sarma

Sequential recommendation, a critical task in recommendation systems, predicts the next user action based on the understanding of the user's historical behaviors. Conventional studies mainly focus on cross-behavior modeling with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhen Gong , Zhifang Fan , Hui Lu , Qiwei Chen , Chenbin Zhang , Lin Guan , Yuchao Zheng , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Many existing industrial recommender systems are sensitive to the patterns of user-item engagement. Light users, who interact less frequently, correspond to a data sparsity problem, making it difficult for the system to accurately learn and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hanjia Lyu , Hanqing Zeng , Yinglong Xia , Ren Chen , Jiebo Luo

Sequential recommendation (SR) leverages users' dynamic preferences, with recent advances incorporating multi-interest learning to model diverse user interests. However, most multi-interest SR models rely on noisy, sparse implicit feedback,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shutong Qiao , Chen Gao , Wei Yuan , Yong Li , Hongzhi Yin

Modeling holistic user interests is important for improving recommendation systems but is challenged by high computational cost and difficulty in handling diverse information with full behavior context. Existing search-based methods might…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yong Bai , Rui Xiang , Kaiyuan Li , Yongxiang Tang , Yanhua Cheng , Xialong Liu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

The analysis and mining of user heterogeneous behavior are of paramount importance in recommendation systems. However, the conventional approach of incorporating various types of heterogeneous behavior into recommendation models leads to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bin Yin , Junjie Xie , Yu Qin , Zixiang Ding , Zhichao Feng , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

Group recommendation provides personalized recommendations to a group of users based on their shared interests, preferences, and characteristics. Current studies have explored different methods for integrating individual preferences and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Jianye Ji , Jiayan Pei , Shaochuan Lin , Taotao Zhou , Hengxu He , Jia Jia , Ning Hu

Sequential user behavior modeling plays a crucial role in online user-oriented services, such as product purchasing, news feed consumption, and online advertising. The performance of sequential modeling heavily depends on the scale and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jianwen Yin , Chenghao Liu , Weiqing Wang , Jianling Sun , Steven C. H. Hoi

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

User interest modeling is critical for personalized news recommendation. Existing news recommendation methods usually learn a single user embedding for each user from their previous behaviors to represent their overall interest. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Peiru Yang , Yang Yu , Xing Xie , Yongfeng Huang

The rapid growth of short videos has necessitated effective recommender systems to match users with content tailored to their evolving preferences. Current video recommendation models primarily treat each video as a whole, overlooking the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhiyu He , Zhixin Ling , Jiayu Li , Zhiqiang Guo , Weizhi Ma , Xinchen Luo , Min Zhang , Guorui Zhou

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for recommendation has demonstrated notable success in various domains, showcasing their potential for open-domain recommendation. A key challenge to advancing open-domain recommendation lies in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Honghui Bao , Wenjie Wang , Xinyu Lin , Fengbin Zhu , Teng Sun , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua
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