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Representation learning in sequential recommendation is critical for accurately modeling user interaction patterns and improving recommendation precision. However, existing approaches predominantly emphasize item-to-item transitions, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yang Liu , Yitong Wang , Chenyue Feng

The goal of sequential event prediction is to estimate the next event based on a sequence of historical events, with applications to sequential recommendation, user behavior analysis and clinical treatment. In practice, the next-event…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , Qingsong Wen , Zhiqiang Zhou , Liang Sun , Junchi Yan

Deep Learning is a consolidated, state-of-the-art Machine Learning tool to fit a function when provided with large data sets of examples. However, in regression tasks, the straightforward application of Deep Learning models provides a point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Axel Brando , Jose A. Rodríguez-Serrano , Mauricio Ciprian , Roberto Maestre , Jordi Vitrià

Probabilistic regression models the entire predictive distribution of a response variable, offering richer insights than classical point estimates and directly allowing for uncertainty quantification. While diffusion-based generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Carlo Kneissl , Christopher Bülte , Philipp Scholl , Gitta Kutyniok

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in many industrial applications, and recently a lot of attention is paid to the deep interest models which use attention mechanism to capture user interests from historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Keke Zhao , Xing Zhao , Qi Cao , Linjian Mo

Recommender systems often grapple with noisy implicit feedback. Most studies alleviate the noise issues from data cleaning perspective such as data resampling and reweighting, but they are constrained by heuristic assumptions. Another…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jujia Zhao , Wenjie Wang , Yiyan Xu , Teng Sun , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Sequential Recommendation (SR) focuses on personalizing user experiences by predicting future preferences based on historical interactions. Transformer models, with their attention mechanisms, have become the dominant architecture in SR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuli Liu , Wenjun Kong , Cheng Luo , Weizhi Ma

We consider the sequential experimental design problem in the predict-then-optimize paradigm. In this paradigm, the outputs of the prediction model are used as coefficient vectors in a downstream linear optimization problem. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-06 Beichen Wan , Mo Liu , Paul Grigas , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed parameter estimation in sensor networks. Each sensor makes successive observations of an unknown $d$-dimensional parameter, which might be subject to Gaussian random noises. The sensors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Jiaqi Yan , Hideaki Ishii

Latent dynamical models are commonly used to learn the distribution of a latent dynamical process that represents a sequence of noisy data samples. However, producing samples from such models with high fidelity is challenging due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Mohammad R. Rezaei

Sequential recommendation aims to infer user preferences from historical interaction sequences and predict the next item that users may be interested in the future. The current mainstream design approach is to represent items as fixed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yong Niu , Xing Xing , Zhichun Jia , Ruidi Liu , Mindong Xin

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 is a popular recommendation task that uses the order of user-item interaction to model evolving users' interests and sequential patterns in their behaviour. Current state-of-the-art Transformer-based models for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

Sequential recommendation is a popular task in academic research and close to real-world application scenarios, where the goal is to predict the next action(s) of the user based on his/her previous sequence of actions. In the training…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yuli Liu , Christian Walder , Lexing Xie

Sequential recommendation (SR) is to accurately recommend a list of items for a user based on her current accessed ones. While new-coming users continuously arrive in the real world, one crucial task is to have inductive SR that can produce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Cheng Hsu , Cheng-Te Li

Capturing users' precise preferences is a fundamental problem in large-scale recommender system. Currently, item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods are common matching approaches in industry. However, they are not effective to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Fuyu Lv , Taiwei Jin , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Quan Lin , Keping Yang , Wilfred Ng

The problem of sequential change diagnosis is considered, where observations are obtained on-line, an abrupt change occurs in their distribution, and the goal is to quickly detect the change and accurately identify the post-change…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Austin Warner , Georgios Fellouris

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 recent years, sequential recommender systems (SRSs) and session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) have emerged as a new paradigm of RSs to capture users' short-term but dynamic preferences for enabling more timely and accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shoujin Wang , Qi Zhang , Liang Hu , Xiuzhen Zhang , Yan Wang , Charu Aggarwal

Sequential recommender infers users' evolving psychological motivations from historical interactions to recommend the next preferred items. Most existing methods compress recent behaviors into a single vector and optimize it toward a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yicheng Di , Yuan Liu , Zhi Chen , Jingcai Guo