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Sequential recommender systems aim to predict users' next interested item given their historical interactions. However, a long-standing issue is how to distinguish between users' long/short-term interests, which may be heterogeneous and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Muyang Li , Zijian Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Minghao Zhao , Runze Wu , Ruocheng Guo

Sequential recommendation predicts users' next behaviors with their historical interactions. Recommending with longer sequences improves recommendation accuracy and increases the degree of personalization. As sequences get longer, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Qianying Lin , Wen-Ji Zhou , Yanshi Wang , Qing Da , Qing-Guo Chen , Bing Wang

We exploit the core-periphery structure and the strong homophilic properties of online social networks to develop faster and more accurate algorithms for user interest prediction. The core of modern social networks consists of relatively…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Marios Papachristou , Dimitris Fotakis

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in sequential recommendation tasks, leveraging their superior language understanding capabilities. However, existing LLM-based recommendation approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Minglai Shao , Hua Huang , Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu

Extracting users' interests from their lifelong behavior sequence is crucial for predicting Click-Through Rate (CTR). Most current methods employ a two-stage process for efficiency: they first select historical behaviors related to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Qi Liu , Xuyang Hou , Haoran Jin , Xiaolong Chen , Jin Chen , Defu Lian , Zhe Wang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

In recent years, deep neural network is introduced in recommender systems to solve the collaborative filtering problem, which has achieved immense success on computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. On one hand,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ge Fan , Wei Zeng , Shan Sun , Biao Geng , Weiyi Wang , Weibo Liu

Industrial recommendation systems are typically composed of multiple stages, including retrieval, ranking, and blending. The retrieval stage plays a critical role in generating a high-recall set of candidate items that covers a wide range…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhibo Fan , Hongtao Lin , Haoyu Chen , Bowen Deng , Hedi Xia , Yuke Yan , James Li

Multi-Domain Recommendation (MDR) has gained significant attention in recent years, which leverages data from multiple domains to enhance their performance concurrently.However, current MDR models are confronted with two limitations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiaopeng Li , Fan Yan , Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Recommender systems help people find relevant content in a personalized way. One main promise of such systems is that they are able to increase the visibility of items in the long tail, i.e., the lesser-known items in a catalogue. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Anastasiia Klimashevskaia , Dietmar Jannach , Mehdi Elahi , Christoph Trattner

Multi-interest candidate matching plays a pivotal role in personalized recommender systems, as it captures diverse user interests from their historical behaviors. Most existing methods utilize attention mechanisms to generate interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yankun Le , Haoran Li , Baoyuan Ou , Yingjie Qin , Zhixuan Yang , Ruilong Su , Fu Zhang

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to predict anonymous users' next interaction based on their interaction sessions. In the practical recommendation scenario, low-exposure items constitute the majority of interactions, creating a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xiao Wang , Ke Qin , Dongyang Zhang , Xiurui Xie , Shuang Liang

The interactive recommender systems involve users in the recommendation procedure by receiving timely user feedback to update the recommendation policy. Therefore, they are widely used in real application scenarios. Previous interactive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Qinxu Ding , Yong Liu , Chunyan Miao , Fei Cheng , Haihong Tang

In real-world decision making, outcomes are often delayed, meaning individuals must make multiple decisions before receiving any feedback. Moreover, feedback can be presented in different ways: it may summarize the overall results of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tailia Malloy , Maria Jose Ferreira , Fei Fang , Cleotilde Gonzalez

The modeling of users' behaviors is crucial in modern recommendation systems. A lot of research focuses on modeling users' lifelong sequences, which can be extremely long and sometimes exceed thousands of items. These models use the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kaiming Shen , Xichen Ding , Zixiang Zheng , Yuqi Gong , Qianqian Li , Zhongyi Liu , Guannan Zhang

Personalized recommendation system has become pervasive in various video platform. Many effective methods have been proposed, but most of them didn't capture the user's multi-level interest trait and dependencies between their viewed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Dong Yao , Shengyu Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Wenyan Fan , Jieming Zhu , Xiuqiang He , Fei Wu

This paper jointly addresses the problem of data uncertainty, popularity bias, and exposure bias in session-based recommender systems. We study the symptoms of this bias both in item embeddings and in recommendations. We propose treating…

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Learning effective feature interactions is central to modern recommender systems, yet remains challenging in industrial settings due to sparse multi-field inputs and ultra-long user behavior sequences. While recent scaling efforts have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Fangye Wang , Guowei Yang , Xiaojiang Zhou , Song Yang , Pengjie Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) empower recommendation systems through their advanced reasoning and planning capabilities. However, the dynamic nature of user interests and content poses a significant challenge: While initial fine-tuning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Changping Meng , Hongyi Ling , Jianling Wang , Yifan Liu , Shuzhou Zhang , Dapeng Hong , Mingyan Gao , Onkar Dalal , Ed Chi , Lichan Hong , Haokai Lu , Ningren Han

In many classical e-commerce platforms, personalized recommendation has been proven to be of great business value, which can improve user satisfaction and increase the revenue of platforms. In this paper, we present a new recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Qijie Shen , Hong Wen , Wanjie Tao , Jing Zhang , Fuyu Lv , Zulong Chen , Zhao Li

User interaction behavior is a valuable source of implicit relevance feedback. In Web image search a different type of search result presentation is used than in general Web search, which leads to different interaction mechanisms and user…

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