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Social-based recommendation systems exploit the selections of friends to combat the data sparsity on user preferences, and improve the recommendation accuracy of the collaborative filtering strategy. The main challenge is to capture and…

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Sequential recommendation models must navigate sparse interaction data popularity bias and conflicting objectives like accuracy versus diversity While recent contrastive selfsupervised learning SSL methods offer improved accuracy they come…

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Universities serve as a hub for academic collaboration, promoting the exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives among students and faculty through interdisciplinary dialogue. However, as universities expand in size, conventional networking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sangeetha N , Harish Thangaraj , Varun Vashisht , Eshaan Joshi , Kanishka Verma , Diya Katariya

Many natural language processing tasks solely rely on sparse dependencies between a few tokens in a sentence. Soft attention mechanisms show promising performance in modeling local/global dependencies by soft probabilities between every two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Sen Wang , Chengqi Zhang

Recommendations can greatly benefit from good representations of the user state at recommendation time. Recent approaches that leverage Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for session-based recommendations have shown that Deep Learning models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Elena Smirnova , Flavian Vasile

This paper explores meta-learning in sequential recommendation to alleviate the item cold-start problem. Sequential recommendation aims to capture user's dynamic preferences based on historical behavior sequences and acts as a key component…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zekun Li , Shu Wu

Sequential recommendation involves automatically recommending the next item to users based on their historical item sequence. While most prior research employs RNN or transformer methods to glean information from the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiaofan Zhou

Fine-tuning with pre-trained models has achieved exceptional results for many language tasks. In this study, we focused on one such self-attention network model, namely BERT, which has performed well in terms of stacking layers across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Ta-Chun Su , Hsiang-Chih Cheng

Effective exploration is critical for reinforcement learning agents in environments with sparse rewards or high-dimensional state-action spaces. Recent works based on state-visitation counts, curiosity and entropy-maximization generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Bang You , Jingming Xie , Youping Chen , Jan Peters , Oleg Arenz

Multi-modal recommendation systems, which integrate diverse types of information, have gained widespread attention in recent years. However, compared to traditional collaborative filtering-based multi-modal recommendation systems, research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wei Ji , Xiangyan Liu , An Zhang , Yinwei Wei , Yongxin Ni , Xiang Wang

Learning dynamic user preference has become an increasingly important component for many online platforms (e.g., video-sharing sites, e-commerce systems) to make sequential recommendations. Previous works have made many efforts to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Yuxuan Liang , Yanwei Yu , Chenliang Li

We study the problem of incorporating prior knowledge into a deep Transformer-based model,i.e.,Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), to enhance its performance on semantic textual matching tasks. By probing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tingyu Xia , Yue Wang , Yuan Tian , Yi Chang

Sequential recommendation demonstrates the capability to recommend items by modeling the sequential behavior of users. Traditional methods typically treat users as sequences of items, overlooking the collaborative relationships among them.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sijia Liu , Jiahao Liu , Hansu Gu , Dongsheng Li , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

In the era of advancing information technology, recommender systems have emerged as crucial tools for dealing with information overload. However, traditional recommender systems still have limitations in capturing the dynamic evolution of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mingjian Fu , Hengsheng Chen , Dongchun Jiang , Yanchao Tan

Object-based attention is a key component of the visual system, relevant for perception, learning, and memory. Neurons tuned to features of attended objects tend to be more active than those associated with non-attended objects. There is a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-09 Jordan Lei , Ari S. Benjamin , Konrad P. Kording

Object-centric slot attention is a powerful framework for unsupervised learning of structured and explainable representations that can support reasoning about objects and actions, including in surgical videos. While conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Marcel Hussing , Kenta Nakahashi , Kazuhiro Yasufuku , Amin Madani , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto

Sequential recommendation effectively models dynamic user interests but continues to face challenges related to data sparsity. While self-supervised learning has alleviated this issue to some extent, most existing methods focus exclusively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ziqiang Cui , Xing Tang , Peiyang Liu , Xiaokun Zhang , Shiwei Li , Xiuqiang He , Chen Ma

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked interest in their application to sequential recommendation tasks as they can provide supportive item information. However, due to the inherent complexities of sequential recommendation,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Jianguo Zhang , Weiran Yao , Shelby Heinecke , Philip S. Yu

Sequential recommendation has garnered significant attention for its ability to capture dynamic preferences by mining users' historical interaction data. Given that users' complex and intertwined periodic preferences are difficult to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Huayang Xu , Huanhuan Yuan , Guanfeng Liu , Junhua Fang , Lei Zhao , Pengpeng Zhao

Recommender systems are tools that support online users by pointing them to potential items of interest in situations of information overload. In recent years, the class of session-based recommendation algorithms received more attention in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Malte Ludewig , Noemi Mauro , Sara Latifi , Dietmar Jannach