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Sequential recommender models are essential components of modern industrial recommender systems. These models learn to predict the next items a user is likely to interact with based on his/her interaction history on the platform. Most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bo Chang , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Yuyan Wang , Can Xu , Ed H. Chi , Minmin Chen

We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

The lifelong user behavior sequence provides abundant information of user preference and gains impressive improvement in the recommendation task, however increases computational consumption significantly. To meet the severe latency…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wenhui Yu , Chao Feng , Yanze Zhang , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Han Li

Modeling the sequential correlation of users' historical interactions is essential in sequential recommendation. However, the majority of the approaches mainly focus on modeling the \emph{intra-sequence} item correlation within each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feng Liu , Weiwen Liu , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye

User interest modeling is critical for personalized news recommendation. Existing news recommendation methods usually learn a single user embedding for each user from their previous behaviors to represent their overall interest. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Peiru Yang , Yang Yu , Xing Xie , Yongfeng Huang

LLM-based shopping agents increasingly rely on long purchase histories and multi-turn interactions for personalization, yet naively appending raw history to prompts is often ineffective due to noise, length, and relevance mismatch. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhiyuan Peng , Xuyang Wu , Huaixiao Tou , Yi Fang , Yu Gong

In sequential recommendation, models recommend items based on user's interaction history. To this end, current models usually incorporate information such as item descriptions and user intent or preferences. User preferences are usually not…

Timeliness and contextual accuracy of recommendations are increasingly important when delivering contemporary digital marketing experiences. Conventional recommender systems (RS) suggest relevant but time-invariant items to users by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xin Chen , Alex Reibman , Sanjay Arora

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns user preferences based on their historical interaction sequences and provides personalized suggestions. In real-world scenarios, most users can only interact with a handful of items, while the majority…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yizhou Dang , Zhifu Wei , Minhan Huang , Lianbo Ma , Jianzhe Zhao , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang

Modeling user-item interaction patterns is an important task for personalized recommendations. Many recommender systems are based on the assumption that there exists a linear relationship between users and items while neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Sen Wang , Guodong Long , Manqing Dong

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

Sequential recommendation methods play a pivotal role in modern recommendation systems. A key challenge lies in accurately modeling user preferences in the face of data sparsity. To tackle this challenge, recent methods leverage contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Shaowei Wei , Zhengwei Wu , Xin Li , Qintong Wu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Lihong Gu , Jinjie Gu

Sequential recommendation aims to estimate how a user's interests evolve over time via uncovering valuable patterns from user behavior history. Many previous sequential models have solely relied on users' historical information to model the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Lei Zheng , Ning Li , Yanhuan Huang , Ruiwen Xu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

In real recommendation scenarios, users often have different types of behaviors, such as clicking and buying. Existing research methods show that it is possible to capture the heterogeneous interests of users through different types of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Weixin Li , Yuhao Wu , Yang Liu , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Recently, Memory-based Neural Recommenders (MNR) have demonstrated superior predictive accuracy in the task of sequential recommendations, particularly for modeling long-term item dependencies. However, typical MNR requires complex memory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shilin Qu , Fajie Yuan , Guibing Guo , Liguang Zhang , Wei Wei

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of data mining and machine learning technology in practice. Academic research in the field is historically often based on the matrix completion problem formulation, where for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Massimo Quadrana , Paolo Cremonesi , Dietmar Jannach

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) have greatly facilitated the development of sequential recommender systems by achieving state-of-the-art recommendation performance on various sequential recommendation tasks. Given a sequence of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Peng-Fei Zhang , Hongzhi Yin

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

Sequential Recommenders have been widely applied in various online services, aiming to model users' dynamic interests from their sequential interactions. With users increasingly engaging with online platforms, vast amounts of lifelong user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiyuan Yang , Yuanzi Li , Jingyu Zhao , Hanbing Wang , Muyang Ma , Jun Ma , Zhaochun Ren , Mengqi Zhang , Xin Xin , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

A long user history inevitably reflects the transitions of personal interests over time. The analyses on the user history require the robust sequential model to anticipate the transitions and the decays of user interests. The user history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Kyungwoo Song , Mingi Ji , Sungrae Park , Il-Chul Moon