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This paper addresses the challenge of jointly modeling user intent diversity and behavioral uncertainty in recommender systems. A unified representation learning framework is proposed. The framework builds a multi-intent representation…

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Existing recommendation methods often struggle to model users' multifaceted preferences due to the diversity and volatility of user behavior, as well as the inherent uncertainty and ambiguity of item attributes in practical scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Zihao Li , Qiang Chen , Lixin Zou , Aixin Sun , Chenliang Li

In real recommendation scenarios, users often have different types of behaviors, such as clicking and buying. Existing research methods show that it is possible to capture the heterogeneous interests of users through different types of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Weixin Li , Yuhao Wu , Yang Liu , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Recommender systems that learn from implicit feedback often use large volumes of a single type of implicit user feedback, such as clicks, to enhance the prediction of sparse target behavior such as purchases. Using multiple types of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Xin Xin , Xiangyuan Liu , Hanbing Wang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jiahuan Lei , Xinlei Shi , Hengliang Luo , Joemon Jose , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Sequential recommender systems have shown effective suggestions by capturing users' interest drift. There have been two groups of existing sequential models: user- and item-centric models. The user-centric models capture personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Dongmin Hyun , Chanyoung Park , Junsu Cho , Hwanjo Yu

With the rapid expansion of user bases on short video platforms, personalized recommendation systems are playing an increasingly critical role in enhancing user experience and optimizing content distribution. Traditional interest modeling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yushang Zhao , Yike Peng , Li Zhang , Qianyi Sun , Zhihui Zhang , Yingying Zhuang

Recent methods in sequential recommendation focus on learning an overall embedding vector from a user's behavior sequence for the next-item recommendation. However, from empirical analysis, we discovered that a user's behavior sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Jianwei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ninghao Liu , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang , Xia Hu

In the context of the booming digital economy, recommendation systems, as a key link connecting users and numerous services, face challenges in modeling user behavior sequences on local-life service platforms, including the sparsity of long…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhaoyu Hu , Jianyang Wang , Hao Guo , Yuan Tian , Erpeng Xue , Xianyang Qi , Hongxiang Lin , Lei Wang , Sheng Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. Their potential for deeper user understanding and improved personalized user experience on recommendation platforms is,…

Image based social networks are among the most popular social networking services in recent years. With tremendous images uploaded everyday, understanding users' preferences on user-generated images and making recommendations have become an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Le Wu , Lei Chen , Richang Hong , Yanjie Fu , Xing Xie , Meng Wang

With the rapid development of E-commerce and the increase in the quantity of items, users are presented with more items hence their interests broaden. It is increasingly difficult to model user intentions with traditional methods, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Junmei Hao , Jingcheng Shi , Qing Da , Anxiang Zeng , Yujie Dun , Xueming Qian , Qianying Lin

With the rapid development of the internet and the explosion of information, providing users with accurate personalized recommendations has become an important research topic. This paper designs and analyzes a personalized recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chunyan Mao , Shuaishuai Huang , Mingxiu Sui , Haowei Yang , Xueshe Wang

Rich user behavior data has been proven to be of great value for click-through rate prediction tasks, especially in industrial applications such as recommender systems and online advertising. Both industry and academy have paid much…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Pi Qi , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Guorui Zhou , Yujing Zhang , Zhe Wang , Lejian Ren , Ying Fan , Kun Gai

The aim of session-based recommendation is to predict the users' next clicked item, which is a challenging task due to the inherent uncertainty in user behaviors and anonymous implicit feedback information. A powerful session-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Jing Zhu , Yanan Xu , Yanmin Zhu

Industrial recommender systems usually consist of the matching stage and the ranking stage, in order to handle the billion-scale of users and items. The matching stage retrieves candidate items relevant to user interests, while the ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Chao Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Mengmeng Wu , Yuchi Xu , Pipei Huang , Huan Zhao , Guoliang Kang , Qiwei Chen , Wei Li , Dik Lun Lee

The rapid proliferation of short videos on social media platforms presents unique challenges and opportunities for recommendation systems. Users exhibit diverse preferences, and the responses resulting from different strategies often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Chenhao Zhai , Chang Meng , Xueliang Wang , Shuchang Liu , Xiaolong Hu , Shisong Tang , Xiaoqiang Feng , Xiu Li

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in recommendation systems, online searches, and advertising platforms, where accurately capturing users' real interests in content is essential for performance. However, existing methods…

In recent years, knowledge graphs have been integrated into recommender systems as item-side auxiliary information, enhancing recommendation accuracy. However, constructing and integrating structural user-side knowledge remains a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zheng Hu , Zhe Li , Ziyun Jiao , Satoshi Nakagawa , Jiawen Deng , Shimin Cai , Tao Zhou , Fuji Ren

Recommender systems help users find relevant items of interest based on the past preferences of those users. In many domains, however, the tastes and preferences of users change over time due to a variety of factors and recommender systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Farzad Eskandanian , Bamshad Mobasher

Modeling users' dynamic preferences from historical behaviors lies at the core of modern recommender systems. Due to the diverse nature of user interests, recent advances propose the multi-interest networks to encode historical behaviors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Zhaocheng Liu , Yingtao Luo , Di Zeng , Qiang Liu , Daqing Chang , Dongying Kong , Zhi Chen