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Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item which interests users via modeling their interest in items over time. Most of the existing works on sequential recommendation model users' dynamic interest in specific items while…

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Recommender systems learn from past user behavior to predict future user preferences. Intuitively, it has been established that the most recent interactions are more indicative of future preferences than older interactions. Many…

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Sequential recommendation aims to capture users' dynamic interest and predicts the next item of users' preference. Most sequential recommendation methods use a deep neural network as sequence encoder to generate user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Hanwen Du , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Lei Zhao , Victor S. Sheng

In practical scenarios, the effectiveness of sequential recommendation systems is hindered by the user cold-start problem, which arises due to limited interactions for accurately determining user preferences. Previous studies have attempted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Mohammmadmahdi Maheri , Reza Abdollahzadeh , Bardia Mohammadi , Mina Rafiei , Jafar Habibi , Hamid R. Rabiee

In modern recommender systems, sequential recommendation leverages chronological user behaviors to make effective next-item suggestions, which suffers from data sparsity issues, especially for new users. One promising line of work is the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Guanyu Lin , Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Jianxin Chang , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Zhiheng Li , Depeng Jin , Yong Li , Meng Wang

In this era of information explosion, a personalized recommendation system is convenient for users to get information they are interested in. To deal with billions of users and items, large-scale online recommendation services usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Xu Yuan , Chen Xu , Qiwei Chen , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Self-attention models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in sequential recommender systems by capturing the sequential dependencies among user-item interactions. However, they rely on positional embeddings to retain the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Muyang Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Chuan Lyu , Minghao Zhao , Runze Wu , Ruocheng Guo

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

Autoencoder recommenders have recently shown state-of-the-art performance in the recommendation task due to their ability to model non-linear item relationships effectively. However, existing autoencoder recommenders use fully-connected…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Farhan Khawar , Leonard Kin Man Poon , Nevin Lianwen Zhang

Multi-behavior sequential recommendation aims to capture users' dynamic interests by modeling diverse types of user interactions over time. Although several studies have explored this setting, the recommendation performance remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yupeng Li , Mingyue Cheng , Yucong Luo , Yitong Zhou , Qingyang Mao , Shijin Wang

Recommender Systems are an integral part of music sharing platforms. Often the aim of these systems is to increase the time, the user spends on the platform and hence having a high commercial value. The systems which aim at increasing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Noveen Sachdeva , Kartik Gupta , Vikram Pudi

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item based on user interests in historical interaction sequences. Historical interaction sequences often contain irrelevant noisy items, which significantly hinders the performance of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Liang Li , Zhou Yang , Xiaofei Zhu

Given a set of pairwise comparisons, the classical ranking problem computes a single ranking that best represents the preferences of all users. In this paper, we study the problem of inferring individual preferences, arising in the context…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-18 Rui Wu , Jiaming Xu , R. Srikant , Laurent Massoulié , Marc Lelarge , Bruce Hajek

In this work, we examine the advantages of using multiple types of behaviour in recommendation systems. Intuitively, each user has to do some implicit actions (e.g., click) before making an explicit decision (e.g., purchase). Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Quyen Tran , Lam Tran , Linh Chu Hai , Linh Ngo Van , Khoat Than

Item representation holds significant importance in recommendation systems, which encompasses domains such as news, retail, and videos. Retrieval and ranking models utilise item representation to capture the user-item relationship based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Amit Kumar Jaiswal , Yu Xiong

Recommender systems (RS) suggest items-based on the estimated preferences of users. Recent RS methods utilise vector space embeddings and deep learning methods to make efficient recommendations. However, most of these methods overlook the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy

Sparsity is a common issue in many trajectory datasets, including human mobility data. This issue frequently brings more difficulty to relevant learning tasks, such as trajectory imputation and prediction. Nowadays, little existing work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Kyle K. Qin , Yongli Ren , Wei Shao , Brennan Lake , Filippo Privitera , Flora D. Salim

Although multi-interest recommenders have achieved significant progress in the matching stage, our research reveals that existing models tend to exhibit an under-clustered item embedding space, which leads to a low discernibility between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yaokun Liu , Xiaowang Zhang , Minghui Zou , Zhiyong Feng

Session-based recommendation (SR) has become an important and popular component of various e-commerce platforms, which aims to predict the next interacted item based on a given session. Most of existing SR models only focus on exploiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Wenjing Meng , Deqing Yang , Yanghua Xiao

Equipping robots with the ability to infer human intent is a vital precondition for effective collaboration. Most computational approaches towards this objective derive a probability distribution of "intent" conditioned on the robot's…

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