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Sequential recommendation recommends items based on sequences of users' historical actions. The key challenge in it is how to effectively model the influence from distant actions to the action to be predicted, i.e., recognizing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Renqin Cai , Qinglei Wang , Chong Wang , Xiaobing Liu

Recently, generative retrieval-based recommendation systems have emerged as a promising paradigm. However, most modern recommender systems adopt a retrieve-and-rank strategy, where the generative model functions only as a selector during…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Jiaxin Deng , Shiyao Wang , Kuo Cai , Lejian Ren , Qigen Hu , Weifeng Ding , Qiang Luo , Guorui Zhou

Sequential recommender systems (SRSs) aim to suggest next item for a user based on her historical interaction sequences. Recently, many research efforts have been devoted to attenuate the influence of noisy items in sequences by either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaofei Zhu , Liang Li , Weidong Liu , Xin Luo

In sequential recommendation (SR), system exposure refers to items that are exposed to the user. Typically, only a few of the exposed items would be interacted with by the user. Although SR has achieved great success in predicting future…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ziqi Zhao , Zhaochun Ren , Jiyuan Yang , Zuming Yan , Zihan Wang , Liu Yang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Xin Xin

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games such as Dota 2 attract hundreds of thousands of players every year. Despite the large player base, it is still important to attract new players to prevent the community of a game from becoming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Alexander Dallmann , Johannes Kohlmann , Daniel Zoller , Andreas Hotho

Large language models have recently shown promise for multimodal recommendation, particularly with text and image inputs. Yet real-world recommendation signals extend far beyond these modalities. To reflect this, we formalize recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zijie Lei , Tao Feng , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Guanyu Lin , Shuang Yang , Ge Liu , Jiaxuan You

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-Based Recommender Systems (RSs) have gained rising attention for their potential to enhance long-term user engagement. However, research in this field faces challenges, including the lack of user-friendly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuanqing Yu , Chongming Gao , Jiawei Chen , Heng Tang , Yuefeng Sun , Qian Chen , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

In this paper, we propose a robust sequential learning strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback mainly in the form of clicks. Our approach relies on the minimization of a pairwise ranking loss over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Alexandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

Session-based recommendation aims to predict user the next action based on historical behaviors in an anonymous session. For better recommendations, it is vital to capture user preferences as well as their dynamics. Besides, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Xiaoyong Huai , Zhiqi Fang , Songlin Hu

Recommender systems are the cornerstone of today's information dissemination, yet a disconnect between offline metrics and online performance greatly hinders their development. Addressing this challenge, we envision a recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-11 An Zhang , Yuxin Chen , Leheng Sheng , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS) have become essential in many real-world applications. However, existing SRS methods often rely on collaborative filtering signals and fail to capture real-time user preferences, while Conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifan Wang , Shen Gao , Jiabao Fang , Rui Yan , Billy Chiu , Shuo Shang

Game Theory (GT) has been used with significant success to formulate, and either design or optimize, the operation of many representative communications and networking scenarios. The games in these scenarios involve, as usual, diverse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Jose Moura , David Hutchison

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict a user's next item preference by modeling historical interaction sequences. Recent advances often integrate frequency-domain modules to compensate for self-attention's low-pass nature by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Peng He , Yao Liu , Yanglei Gan , Run Lin , Tingting Dai , Qiao Liu , Xuexin Li

We present an interactive visualisation tool for recommending travel trajectories. This system is based on new machine learning formulations and algorithms for the sequence recommendation problem. The system starts from a map-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Dawei Chen , Dongwoo Kim , Lexing Xie , Minjeong Shin , Aditya Krishna Menon , Cheng Soon Ong , Iman Avazpour , John Grundy

Learning large-scale pre-trained models on broad-ranging data and then transfer to a wide range of target tasks has become the de facto paradigm in many machine learning (ML) communities. Such big models are not only strong performers in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jie Wang , Fajie Yuan , Mingyue Cheng , Joemon M. Jose , Chenyun Yu , Beibei Kong , Zhijin Wang , Bo Hu , Zang Li

In this paper, we develop a recommender system for a game that suggests potential items to players based on their interactive behaviors to maximize revenue for the game provider. Our approach is built on a reinforcement learning-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Hung Nguyen , Minh Nguyen , Long Pham , Jennifer Adorno Nieves

Sequential recommendation, where user preference is dynamically inferred from sequential historical behaviors, is a critical task in recommender systems (RSs). To further optimize long-term user engagement, offline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jun Wang , Likang Wu , Qi Liu , Yu Yang

Calibrated recommendation, which aims to maintain personalized proportions of categories within recommendations, is crucial in practical scenarios since it enhances user satisfaction by reflecting diverse interests. However, achieving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hyunsik Jeon , Se-eun Yoon , Julian McAuley

Recommender systems play a vital role in alleviating information overload and enriching users' online experience. In the era of large language models (LLMs), LLM-based recommender systems have emerged as a prevalent paradigm for advancing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zihuai Zhao , Yujuan Ding , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

In today's data-driven world, recommender systems (RS) play a crucial role to support the decision-making process. As users become continuously connected to the internet, they become less patient and less tolerant to obsolete…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Heidy Hazem , Ahmed Awad , Ahmed Hassan