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Despite recommender systems play a key role in network content platforms, mining the user's interests is still a significant challenge. Existing works predict the user interest by utilizing user behaviors, i.e., clicks, views, etc., but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xuanji Xiao , Huaqiang Dai , Qian Dong , Shuzi Niu , Yuzhen Liu , Pei Liu

Existing sequential recommendation methods rely on large amounts of training data and usually suffer from the data sparsity problem. To tackle this, the pre-training mechanism has been widely adopted, which attempts to leverage large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Chaojun Xiao , Ruobing Xie , Yuan Yao , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin

Boosting sales of e-commerce services is guaranteed once users find more matching items to their interests in a short time. Consequently, recommendation systems have become a crucial part of any successful e-commerce services. Although…

Recommender systems are designed to help users in situations of information overload. In recent years, we observed increased interest in session-based recommendation scenarios, where the problem is to make item suggestions to users based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Sara Latifi , Noemi Mauro , Dietmar Jannach

The KNN approach, which is widely used in recommender systems because of its efficiency, robustness and interpretability, is proposed for session-based recommendation recently and outperforms recurrent neural network models. It captures the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yunming Ye , Feng Liu , Yuzhou Zhang

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict a user's next item preference by modeling historical interaction sequences. Recent advances often integrate frequency-domain modules to compensate for self-attention's low-pass nature by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Peng He , Yao Liu , Yanglei Gan , Run Lin , Tingting Dai , Qiao Liu , Xuexin Li

Sequential recommendation has become increasingly essential in various online services. It aims to model the dynamic preferences of users from their historical interactions and predict their next items. The accumulated user behavior records…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Jianwei Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Xiao Huang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Xia Hu

Agentic recommender systems leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to model complex user behaviors and support personalized decision-making. However, existing methods primarily model preference changes based on explicit user-item…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Bingqian Li , Xiaolei Wang , Junyi Li , Weitao Li , Long Zhang , Sheng Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

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

Recurrent neural networks for session-based recommendation have attracted a lot of attention recently because of their promising performance. repeat consumption is a common phenomenon in many recommendation scenarios (e.g., e-commerce,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jing Li , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke

User interests are usually dynamic in the real world, which poses both theoretical and practical challenges for learning accurate preferences from rich behavior data. Among existing user behavior modeling solutions, attention networks are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Chao Chen , Haoyu Geng , Nianzu Yang , Junchi Yan , Daiyue Xue , Jianping Yu , Xiaokang Yang

Recent years have witnessed success of sequential modeling, generative recommender, and large language model for recommendation. Though the scaling law has been validated for sequential models, it showed inefficiency in computational…

Sequential recommendation aims to predict a user's next action in large-scale recommender systems. While traditional methods often suffer from insufficient information interaction, recent generative recommendation models partially address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haibo Xing , Hao Deng , Yucheng Mao , Lingyu Mu , Jinxin Hu , Yi Xu , Hao Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Shizhun Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Sequential recommendation involves automatically recommending the next item to users based on their historical item sequence. While most prior research employs RNN or transformer methods to glean information from the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiaofan Zhou

Current advances in recommender systems have been remarkably successful in optimizing immediate engagement. However, long-term user engagement, a more desirable performance metric, remains difficult to improve. Meanwhile, recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Wanqi Xue , Qingpeng Cai , Zhenghai Xue , Shuo Sun , Shuchang Liu , Dong Zheng , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai , Bo An

We introduce SessionRec, a novel next-session prediction paradigm (NSPP) for generative sequential recommendation, addressing the fundamental misalignment between conventional next-item prediction paradigm (NIPP) and real-world…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Lei Huang , Hao Guo , Linzhi Peng , Long Zhang , Xiaoteng Wang , Daoyuan Wang , Shichao Wang , Jinpeng Wang , Lei Wang , Sheng Chen

Given a sequence of sets, where each set has a timestamp and contains an arbitrary number of elements, temporal sets prediction aims to predict the elements in the subsequent set. Previous studies for temporal sets prediction mainly focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Le Yu , Zihang Liu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Chuanren Liu , Weifeng Lv

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

The problem of session-based recommendation aims to predict user actions based on anonymous sessions. Previous methods model a session as a sequence and estimate user representations besides item representations to make recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Shu Wu , Yuyuan Tang , Yanqiao Zhu , Liang Wang , Xing Xie , Tieniu Tan

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme