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Recently, a new approach to perform regression testing has been defined: the point of interest (POI) testing. A POI, in this context, is any expression of a program. The approach receives as input a set of relations between POIs from a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Sergio Pérez , Salvador Tamarit

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' future interactions by modeling collaborative filtering (CF) signals from historical behaviors of similar users or items. Traditional sequential recommenders predominantly rely on ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yingzhi He , Xiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

With the rapid growth of Location-Based Social Networks, personalized Points of Interest (POIs) recommendation has become a critical task to help users explore their surroundings. Due to the scarcity of check-in data, the availability of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Sajad Ahmadian , Mitra Baratchi , Mohsen Afsharchi , Fabio Crestani

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

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

Generative models have recently demonstrated strong potential in multi-behavior recommendation systems, leveraging the expressive power of transformers and tokenization to generate personalized item sequences. However, their adoption is…

Session-based recommendation targets next-item prediction by exploiting user behaviors within a short time period. Compared with other recommendation paradigms, session-based recommendation suffers more from the problem of data sparsity due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xin Xia , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Yingxia Shao , Lizhen Cui

Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS) have become essential in many real-world applications. However, existing SRS methods often rely on collaborative filtering signals and fail to capture real-time user preferences, while Conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifan Wang , Shen Gao , Jiabao Fang , Rui Yan , Billy Chiu , Shuo Shang

For present e-commerce platforms, session-based recommender systems are developed to predict users' preference for next-item recommendation. Although a session can usually reflect a user's current preference, a local shift of the user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang , Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin

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 (SeqRec) aims to predict the next item by capturing sequential patterns from users' historical interactions, playing a crucial role in many real-world recommender systems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xu Chen , Wen Chen , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang

Multi-step passenger demand forecasting is a crucial task in on-demand vehicle sharing services. However, predicting passenger demand over multiple time horizons is generally challenging due to the nonlinear and dynamic spatial-temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Lei Bai , Lina Yao , Salil. S Kanhere , Xianzhi Wang , Quan. Z Sheng

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

Recent works leveraging Graph Neural Networks to approach graph matching tasks have shown promising results. Recent progress in learning discrete distributions poses new opportunities for learning graph matching models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Linfeng Liu , Michael C. Hughes , Soha Hassoun , Li-Ping Liu

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which can naturally integrate node information and topological structure, have been demonstrated to be powerful in learning on graph data. These advantages of GNNs provide great potential to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Qing Li , Yuan He , Eric Zhao , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Sequential recommendation (SR), which encodes user activity to predict the next action, has emerged as a widely adopted strategy in developing commercial personalized recommendation systems. A critical component of modern SR models is the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jun Yuan , Guohao Cai , Zhenhua Dong

The training paradigm integrating large language models (LLM) is gradually reshaping sequential recommender systems (SRS) and has shown promising results. However, most existing LLM-enhanced methods rely on rich textual information on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Dugang Liu , Shenxian Xian , Xiaolin Lin , Xiaolian Zhang , Hong Zhu , Yuan Fang , Zhen Chen , Zhong Ming

Graph-based collaborative filtering methods have prevailing performance for recommender systems since they can capture high-order information between users and items, in which the graphs are constructed from the observed user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hongjian Gu , Yaochen Hu , Yingxue Zhang

Graph-based and sequential methods are two popular recommendation paradigms, each excelling in its domain but lacking the ability to leverage signals from the other. To address this, we propose a novel method that integrates both approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Yuwei Cao , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Yuqing Liu , Chen Wang , Yueqing Liang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Generative point-of-interest (POI) recommendation models based on large language models (LLMs) have shown promising results by formulating next POI prediction as a sequence generation task. However, the knowledge encoded in these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qiuyu Ding , Heng-Da Xu , Wei Zhang , Dongyi Lv , Changda Xia , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu