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This paper utilizes well-designed item-item path modelling between consecutive items with attention mechanisms to sequentially model dynamic user-item evolutions on dynamic knowledge graph for explainable recommendations. Compared with…

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This paper addresses the challenge of jointly modeling user intent diversity and behavioral uncertainty in recommender systems. A unified representation learning framework is proposed. The framework builds a multi-intent representation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Wei Xu , Jiasen Zheng , Junjiang Lin , Mingxuan Han , Junliang Du

Click-through rate prediction plays an important role in the field of recommender system and many other applications. Existing methods mainly extract user interests from user historical behaviors. However, behavioral sequences only contain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yunfei Chu , Xiaofu Chang , Kunyang Jia , Jingzhen Zhou , Hongxia Yang

In real-world recommender systems, implicitly collected user feedback, while abundant, often includes noisy false-positive and false-negative interactions. The possible misinterpretations of the user-item interactions pose a significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zixuan Yi , Xi Wang , Iadh Ounis

In e-commerce, the watchlist enables users to track items over time and has emerged as a primary feature, playing an important role in users' shopping journey. Watchlist items typically have multiple attributes whose values may change over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Uriel Singer , Haggai Roitman , Yotam Eshel , Alexander Nus , Ido Guy , Or Levi , Idan Hasson , Eliyahu Kiperwasser

Temporal distribution shift (TDS) erodes the long-term accuracy of recommender systems, yet industrial practice still relies on periodic incremental training, which struggles to capture both stable and transient patterns. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxuan Zhu , Cong Fu , Yabo Ni , Anxiang Zeng , Yuan Fang

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 key of sequential recommendation lies in the accurate item correlation modeling. Previous models infer such information based on item co-occurrences, which may fail to capture the real causal relations, and impact the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Zhenlei Wang , Xu Chen , Rui Zhou , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Ji-Rong Wen

Sequential recommendation (SR) tasks aim to predict users' next interaction by learning their behavior sequence and capturing the connection between users' past interactions and their changing preferences. Conventional SR models often focus…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Haoyi Zhang , Guohao Sun , Jinhu Lu , Guanfeng Liu , Xiu Susie Fang

Sequential recommender systems are an important and demanded area of research. Such systems aim to use the order of interactions in a user's history to predict future interactions. The premise is that the order of interactions and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Anton Klenitskiy , Anna Volodkevich , Anton Pembek , Alexey Vasilev

We present a nonparametric framework to model a short sequence of probability distributions that vary both due to underlying effects of sequential progression and confounding noise. To distinguish between these two types of variation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-08 Jonas Mueller , Tommi Jaakkola , David Gifford

Recently, contrastive learning has been applied to the sequential recommendation task to address data sparsity caused by users with few item interactions and items with few user adoptions. Nevertheless, the existing contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Lei Wang , Ee-Peng Lim , Zhiwei Liu , Tianxiang Zhao

Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next item for recommendation based on previously recorded sessions of user interaction. The majority of existing approaches to SR focus on modeling the transition patterns of items. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiahao Yuan , Wendi Ji , Dell Zhang , Jinwei Pan , Xiaoling Wang

Recommender systems are ubiquitous in the domain of e-commerce, used to improve the user experience and to market inventory, thereby increasing revenue for the site. Techniques such as item-based collaborative filtering are used to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Daniel A. Galron , Yuri M. Brovman , Jin Chung , Michal Wieja , Paul Wang

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict future user-item interactions based on historical interactions. While many SR approaches concentrate on user IDs and item IDs, the human perception of the world through multi-modal signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Yuanqi He , Junchen Fu , Xiangyan Liu , Qi Guo

Reranking plays a crucial role in modern multi-stage recommender systems by rearranging the initial ranking list to model interplay between items. Considering the inherent challenges of reranking such as combinatorial searching space, some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xiao Lin , Xiaokai Chen , Chenyang Wang , Hantao Shu , Linfeng Song , Biao Li , Peng jiang

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

Sequential recommender systems have achieved state-of-the-art recommendation performance by modeling the sequential dynamics of user activities. However, in most recommendation scenarios, the popular items comprise the major part of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yi Ren , Xu Zhao , Hongyan Tang , Shuai Li

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-based models such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

The sequential recommendation system utilizes historical user interactions to predict preferences. Effectively integrating diverse user behavior patterns with rich multimodal information of items to enhance the accuracy of sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xiaoxi Cui , Weihai Lu , Yu Tong , Yiheng Li , Zhejun Zhao