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Sequential recommendations have drawn significant attention in modeling the user's historical behaviors to predict the next item. With the booming development of multimodal data (e.g., image, text) on internet platforms, sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Changhong Li , Zhiqiang Guo

Sequential recommendation has become increasingly essential in various online services. It aims to model the dynamic preferences of users from their historical interactions and predict their next items. The accumulated user behavior records…

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

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

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

We consider an online model for recommendation systems, with each user being recommended an item at each time-step and providing 'like' or 'dislike' feedback. A latent variable model specifies the user preferences: both users and items are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 Mina Karzand , Guy Bresler

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

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

Sequential recommendation aims to leverage users' historical behaviors to predict their next interaction. Existing works have not yet addressed two main challenges in sequential recommendation. First, user behaviors in their rich historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jianxin Chang , Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Yiqun Hui , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

The main task of personalized recommendation is capturing users' interests based on their historical behaviors. Most of recent advances in recommender systems mainly focus on modeling users' preferences accurately using deep learning based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Shihao Li , Dekun Yang , Bufeng Zhang

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

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 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

People's daily lives involve numerous periodic behaviors, such as eating and traveling. Local-life platforms cater to these recurring needs by providing essential services tied to daily routines. Therefore, users' periodic intentions are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Guoquan Wang , Qiang Luo , Weisong Hu , Pengfei Yao , Wencong Zeng , Guorui Zhou , Kun Gai

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

Capturing the dynamics in user preference is crucial to better predict user future behaviors because user preferences often drift over time. Many existing recommendation algorithms -- including both shallow and deep ones -- often model such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chao Chen , Dongsheng Li , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Lifelong sequential modeling (LSM) is becoming increasingly critical in social media recommendation systems for predicting the click-through rate (CTR) of items presented to users. Central to this process is the attention mechanism, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ting Guo , Zhaoyang Yang , Qinsong Zeng , Ming Chen

Personalized news recommendation is highly time-sensitive, as user interests are often driven by emerging events, trending topics, and shifting real-world contexts. These dynamics make it essential to model not only users' long-term…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhiyong Cheng , Yike Jin , Zhijie Zhang , Huilin Chen , Zhangling Duan , Meng Wang

Accurately modeling user preferences is vital not only for improving recommendation performance but also for enhancing transparency in recommender systems. Conventional user profiling methods, such as averaging item embeddings, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

It has become increasingly clear that recommender systems that overly focus on short-term engagement prevents users from exploring diverse interests, ultimately hurting long-term user experience. To tackle this challenge, numerous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yuyan Wang , Cheenar Banerjee , Samer Chucri , Fabio Soldo , Sriraj Badam , Ed H. Chi , Minmin Chen

Content-based recommendation systems play a crucial role in delivering personalized content to users in the digital world. In this work, we introduce EmbSum, a novel framework that enables offline pre-computations of users and candidate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chiyu Zhang , Yifei Sun , Minghao Wu , Jun Chen , Jie Lei , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Rong Jin , Angli Liu , Ji Zhu , Sem Park , Ning Yao , Bo Long