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Top-$N$ sequential recommendation models each user as a sequence of items interacted in the past and aims to predict top-$N$ ranked items that a user will likely interact in a `near future'. The order of interaction implies that sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Jiaxi Tang , Ke Wang

In many online applications interactions between a user and a web-service are organized in a sequential way, e.g., user browsing an e-commerce website. In this setting, recommendation system acts throughout user navigation by showing items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Elena Smirnova

The success of online social platforms hinges on their ability to predict and understand user behavior at scale. Here, we present data suggesting that context-aware modeling approaches may offer a holistic yet lightweight and potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Heinrich Peters , Yozen Liu , Francesco Barbieri , Raiyan Abdul Baten , Sandra C. Matz , Maarten W. Bos

Both reviews and user-item interactions (i.e., rating scores) have been widely adopted for user rating prediction. However, these existing techniques mainly extract the latent representations for users and items in an independent and static…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Libing Wu , Cong Quan , Chenliang Li , Qian Wang , Bolong Zheng

User-item interaction histories are pivotal for sequential recommendation systems but often include noise, such as unintended clicks or actions that fail to reflect genuine user preferences. To address this, we propose Learned Item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haidong Xin , Zhenghao Liu , Sen Mei , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Shuo Wang , Zulong Chen , Yu Gu , Ge Yu , Chenyan Xiong

User interests typically encompass both long-term preferences and short-term intentions, reflecting the dynamic nature of user behaviors across different timeframes. The uneven temporal distribution of user interactions highlights the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wei Zhou , Yue Shen , Junkai Ji , Yinglan Feng , Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He , Liang Feng , Zexuan Zhu

Estimating Click-Through Rate (CTR) is a vital yet challenging task in personalized product search. However, existing CTR methods still struggle in the product search settings due to the following three challenges including how to more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Qijie Shen , Hong Wen , Jing Zhang , Qi Rao

Personalized fashion recommendation aims to explore patterns from historical interactions between users and fashion items and thereby predict the future ones. It is challenging due to the sparsity of the interaction data and the diversity…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yujuan Ding , P. Y. Mok , Xun Yang , Yanghong Zhou

Item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) enjoys the advantages of high recommendation accuracy and ease in online penalization and thus is favored by the industrial recommender systems. ICF recommends items to a target user based on their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zhiyong Cheng , Fan Liu , Shenghan Mei , Yangyang Guo , Lei Zhu , Liqiang Nie

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) has become an emerging research topic seeking to perform recommendations through interactive conversations, which generally consist of generation and recommendation modules. Prior work on CRS tends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Lingzhi Wang , Shafiq Joty , Wei Gao , Xingshan Zeng , Kam-Fai Wong

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

In the sequential recommendation task, the recommender generally learns multiple embeddings from a user's historical behaviors, to catch the diverse interests of the user. Nevertheless, the existing approaches just extract each interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Liangliang Chen , Hongzhan Lin , Jinshan Ma , Guang Chen

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li

Recommendation systems often use online collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms to identify items a given user likes over time, based on ratings that this user and a large number of other users have provided in the past. This problem has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Wasim Huleihel , Soumyabrata Pal , Ofer Shayevitz

We apply recurrent neural networks (RNN) on a new domain, namely recommender systems. Real-life recommender systems often face the problem of having to base recommendations only on short session-based data (e.g. a small sportsware website)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Balázs Hidasi , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Linas Baltrunas , Domonkos Tikk

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

Session-based recommendation, aiming at making the prediction of the user's next item click based on the information in a single session only, even in the presence of some random user's behavior, is a complex problem. This complex problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ruida Wang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Weile Tan

Recently, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been applied to the task of session-based recommendation. These approaches use RNNs to predict the next item in a user session based on the previ- ously visited items. While some approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Alexander Dallmann , Alexander Grimm , Christian Pölitz , Daniel Zoller , Andreas Hotho

Most of the existing recommender systems assume that user's visiting history can be constantly recorded. However, in recent online services, the user identification may be usually unknown and only limited online user behaviors can be used.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

We propose a novel software service recommendation model to help users find their suitable repositories in GitHub. Our model first designs a novel context-induced repository graph embedding method to leverage rich contextual information of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mingwei Zhang , Jiayuan Liu , Weipu Zhang , Ke Deng , Hai Dong , Ying Liu