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Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to uncover and transfer users' sequential preferences across multiple recommendation domains. While significant endeavors have been made, they primarily concentrated on developing advanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Zhi Li , Sirui Zhao , Zhen Wang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Modeling users' dynamic and evolving preferences from their historical behaviors is challenging and crucial for recommendation systems. Previous methods employ sequential neural networks (e.g., Recurrent Neural Network) to encode users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Fei Sun , Jun Liu , Jian Wu , Changhua Pei , Xiao Lin , Wenwu Ou , Peng Jiang

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) predict the next items that users may prefer based on user historical interaction sequences. Inspired by the rise of large language models (LLMs) in various AI applications, there is a surge of work on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-17 CanYi Liu , Wei Li , Youchen , Zhang , Hui Li , Rongrong Ji

Sequential recommendation aims to provide users with personalized suggestions based on their historical interactions. When training sequential models, padding is a widely adopted technique for two main reasons: 1) The vast majority of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yizhou Dang , Yuting Liu , Enneng Yang , Guibing Guo , Linying Jiang , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

Current sequential recommender systems are proposed to tackle the dynamic user preference learning with various neural techniques, such as Transformer and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, inference from the highly sparse user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chunzhen Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin

We propose an algorithm for next query recommendation in interactive data exploration settings, like knowledge discovery for information gathering. The state-of-the-art query recommendation algorithms are based on sequence-to-sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Shameem A Puthiya Parambath , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Roderick Murray-Smith

Sequential Recommendation aims to predict the next item based on user behaviour. Recently, Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has been proposed to improve recommendation performance. However, most of existing SSL methods use a uniform data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yongjing Hao , Pengpeng Zhao , Xuefeng Xian , Guanfeng Liu , Deqing Wang , Lei Zhao , Yanchi Liu , Victor S. Sheng

Sequential Recommendation is a widely studied paradigm for learning users' dynamic interests from historical interactions for predicting the next potential item. Although lots of research work has achieved remarkable progress, they are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yongqiang Han , Likang Wu , Hao Wang , Guifeng Wang , Mengdi Zhang , Zhi Li , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

There has been a growing interest in benchmarking sequential recommendation models and reproducing/improving existing models. For example, Rendle et al. improved matrix factorization models by tuning their parameters and hyperparameters.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Fangyu Li , Shenbao Yu , Feng Zeng , Fang Yang

Sequential recommendation plays an increasingly important role in many e-commerce services such as display advertisement and online shopping. With the rapid development of these services in the last two decades, users have accumulated a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yongji Wu , Lu Yin , Defu Lian , Mingyang Yin , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang

Learning effective recommendation models from sparse user interactions represents a fundamental challenge in developing sequential recommendation methods. Recently, pre-training-based methods have been developed to tackle this challenge.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Bo Peng , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

In sequential recommendation (SR), neural models have been actively explored due to their remarkable performance, but they suffer from inefficiency inherent to their complexity. On the other hand, linear SR models exhibit high efficiency…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Seongmin Park , Mincheol Yoon , Minjin Choi , Jongwuk Lee

Transformer is the state-of-the-art model for many natural language processing, computer vision, and audio analysis problems. Transformer effectively combines information from the past input and output samples in auto-regressive manner so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

Sequential recommendation addresses the issue of preference drift by predicting the next item based on the user's previous behaviors. Recently, a promising approach using contrastive learning has emerged, demonstrating its effectiveness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Dongjun Lee , Donggeun Ko , Jaekwang Kim

Sequential recommendation task aims to predict user preference over items in the future given user historical behaviors. The order of user behaviors implies that there are resourceful sequential patterns embedded in the behavior history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jiarui Qin , Kan Ren , Yuchen Fang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

While some powerful neural network architectures (e.g., Transformer, Graph Neural Networks) have achieved improved performance in sequential recommendation with high-order item dependency modeling, they may suffer from poor representation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yaowen Ye , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

State-of-the-art sequential recommendation relies heavily on self-attention-based recommender models. Yet such models are computationally expensive and often too slow for real-time recommendation. Furthermore, the self-attention operation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhenrui Yue , Yueqi Wang , Zhankui He , Huimin Zeng , Julian McAuley , Dong Wang

Transformer architectures have facilitated the development of large-scale and general-purpose sequence models for prediction tasks in natural language processing and computer vision, e.g., GPT-3 and Swin Transformer. Although originally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Muning Wen , Runji Lin , Hanjing Wang , Yaodong Yang , Ying Wen , Luo Mai , Jun Wang , Haifeng Zhang , Weinan Zhang

When tasks change over time, meta-transfer learning seeks to improve the efficiency of learning a new task via both meta-learning and transfer-learning. While the standard attention has been effective in a variety of settings, we question…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jaesik Yoon , Gautam Singh , Sungjin Ahn

We consider the task of learning from both positive and negative feedback in a sequential recommendation scenario, as both types of feedback are often present in user interactions. Meanwhile, conventional sequential learning models usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Veronika Ivanova , Evgeny Frolov , Alexey Vasilev