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The goal of session-based recommendation in E-commerce is to predict the next item that an anonymous user will purchase based on the browsing and purchase history. However, constructing global or local transition graphs to supplement…

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General recommender systems deliver personalized services by learning user and item representations, with the central challenge being how to capture latent user preferences. However, representations derived from sparse interactions often…

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Sequential recommendation systems model dynamic preferences of users based on their historical interactions with platforms. Despite recent progress, modeling short-term and long-term behavior of users in such systems is nontrivial and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Mehrnaz Amjadi , Seyed Danial Mohseni Taheri , Theja Tulabandhula

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

Session-based recommender systems aim to improve recommendations in short-term sessions that can be found across many platforms. A critical challenge is to accurately model user intent with only limited evidence in these short sessions. For…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jianling Wang , Kaize Ding , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

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

Collaborative filtering has been largely used to advance modern recommender systems to predict user preference. A key component in collaborative filtering is representation learning, which aims to project users and items into a low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Gang Wang , Ziyi Guo , Xiang Li , Dawei Yin , Shuai Ma

Modern online service providers such as online shopping platforms often provide both search and recommendation (S&R) services to meet different user needs. Rarely has there been any effective means of incorporating user behavior data from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zihua Si , Zhongxiang Sun , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu , Xiaoxue Zang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Ji-Rong Wen

Session-based recommendation aims to predict a user's next action based on previous actions in the current session. The major challenge is to capture authentic and complete user preferences in the entire session. Recent work utilizes graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jiayan Guo , Yaming Yang , Xiangchen Song , Yuan Zhang , Yujing Wang , Jing Bai , Yan Zhang

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

The goal of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user's potential interested items based on her/his historical interaction sequences. Most existing sequential recommenders are developed based on ID features, which, despite their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jinpeng Wang , Ziyun Zeng , Yunxiao Wang , Yuting Wang , Xingyu Lu , Tianxiang Li , Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shu-Tao Xia

An important aspect subtending language understanding and production is the ability to independently encode positional and symbolic information of the words within a sentence. In Transformers, positional information is typically encoded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Felipe Urrutia , Jorge Salas , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Cristian Buc Calderon , Hector Pasten , Cristobal Rojas

Session-based recommendation (SR) aims to dynamically recommend items to a user based on a sequence of the most recent user-item interactions. Most existing studies on SR adopt advanced deep learning methods. However, the majority only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Huizi Wu , Cong Geng , Hui Fang

Users' search tasks have become increasingly complicated, requiring multiple queries and interactions with the results. Recent studies have demonstrated that modeling the historical user behaviors in a session can help understand the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Haonan Chen , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Zhao Cao , Xiaohua Cheng , Ji-Rong Wen

When users interact with Recommender Systems (RecSys), current situations, such as time, location, and environment, significantly influence their preferences. Situations serve as the background for interactions, where relationships between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jiayu Li , Peijie Sun , Chumeng Jiang , Weizhi Ma , Qingyao Ai , Min Zhang

The personalized recommendation is an essential part of modern e-commerce, where user's demands are not only conditioned by their profile but also by their recent browsing behaviors as well as periodical purchases made some time ago. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiarui Jin , Xianyu Chen , Weinan Zhang , Junjie Huang , Ziming Feng , Yong Yu

Predicting user actions based on anonymous sessions is a challenge to general recommendation systems because the lack of user profiles heavily limits data-driven models. Recently, session-based recommendation methods have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zailei Zhou

Understanding users' product preferences is essential to the efficacy of a recommendation system. Precision marketing leverages users' historical data to discern these preferences and recommends products that align with them. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Berke Ugurlu , Ming-Yi Hong , Che Lin

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

Sequential recommendation task aims to predict user preference over items in the future given user historical behaviors. The order of user behaviors implies that there are resourceful sequential patterns embedded in the behavior history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jiarui Qin , Kan Ren , Yuchen Fang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu