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Sequential recommendation systems often struggle to make predictions or take action when dealing with cold-start items that have limited amount of interactions. In this work, we propose SimRec - a new approach to mitigate the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shaked Brody , Shoval Lagziel

Time intervals between purchasing items are a crucial factor in sequential recommendation tasks, whereas existing approaches focus on item sequences and often overlook by assuming the intervals between items are static. However, dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Wei-Wei Du , Takuma Udagawa , Kei Tateno

User cold-start recommendation is a long-standing challenge for recommender systems due to the fact that only a few interactions of cold-start users can be exploited. Recent studies seek to address this challenge from the perspective of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Xixun Lin , Jia Wu , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan , Yanan Cao , Bin Wang

Sequential user modeling, a critical task in personalized recommender systems, focuses on predicting the next item a user would prefer, requiring a deep understanding of user behavior sequences. Despite the remarkable success of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hao Wang , Jianxun Lian , Mingqi Wu , Haoxuan Li , Jiajun Fan , Wanyue Xu , Chaozhuo Li , Xing Xie

Large language models (LLMs) open up new horizons for sequential recommendations, owing to their remarkable language comprehension and generation capabilities. However, there are still numerous challenges that should be addressed to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yuling Wang , Changxin Tian , Binbin Hu , Yanhua Yu , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Liang Pang , Xiao Wang

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Sequential recommendation aims to model dynamic user behavior from historical interactions. Existing methods rely on either explicit item IDs or general textual features for sequence modeling to understand user preferences. While promising,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiacheng Li , Ming Wang , Jin Li , Jinmiao Fu , Xin Shen , Jingbo Shang , Julian McAuley

Modern recommender systems operate in uniquely dynamic settings: user interests, item pools, and popularity trends shift continuously, and models must adapt in real time without forgetting past preferences. While existing tutorials on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hyunsik Yoo , SeongKu Kang , Hanghang Tong

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

Sequential recommendations have drawn significant attention in modeling the user's historical behaviors to predict the next item. With the booming development of multimodal data (e.g., image, text) on internet platforms, sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Changhong Li , Zhiqiang Guo

Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

Modern recommender systems are required to adapt to the change in user preferences and item popularity. Such a problem is known as the temporal dynamics problem, and it is one of the main challenges in recommender system modeling. Different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Nuttapong Chairatanakul , Hoang NT , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

Recommender Systems (RS) have became a popular research topic and, since 2016, Deep Learning methods and techniques have been increasingly explored in this area. News RS are aimed to personalize users experiences and help them discover…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira

In order to model the evolution of user preference, we should learn user/item embeddings based on time-ordered item purchasing sequences, which is defined as Sequential Recommendation (SR) problem. Existing methods leverage sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Jiawei Zhang , Yun Xiong , Lei Zheng , Philip S. Yu

Sequential Recommendation (SR) models user dynamics and predicts the next preferred items based on the user history. Existing SR methods model the 'was interacted before' item-item transitions observed in sequences, which can be viewed as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Chen Wang , Peijie Huang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

For tackling the well known cold-start user problem in model-based recommender systems, one approach is to recommend a few items to a cold-start user and use the feedback to learn a profile. The learned profile can then be used to make good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Sampoorna Biswas , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Senjuti Basu Ray

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Zhaozheng Chen , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) could capture dynamic user preferences by modeling historical behaviors ordered in time. Despite effectiveness, focusing only on the \textit{collaborative signals} from behaviors does not fully grasp…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mingyue Cheng , Hao Zhang , Qi Liu , Fajie Yuan , Zhi Li , Zhenya Huang , Enhong Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Li

While sequential recommendation achieves significant progress on capturing user-item transition patterns, transferring such large-scale recommender systems remains challenging due to the disjoint user and item groups across domains. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Yang Zhang , Julian McAuley , Dong Wang

Sequential recommendation requires the recommender to capture the evolving behavior characteristics from logged user behavior data for accurate recommendations. However, user behavior sequences are viewed as a script with multiple ongoing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Zhiyu Yao , Xinyang Chen , Sinan Wang , Qinyan Dai , Yumeng Li , Tanchao Zhu , Mingsheng Long