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Large language models (LLMs) have enhanced conventional recommendation models via user profiling, which generates representative textual profiles from users' historical interactions. However, their direct application to session-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Gyuseok Lee , Wonbin Kweon , Zhenrui Yue , Yaokun Liu , Yifan Liu , Susik Yoon , Dong Wang , SeongKu Kang

In this paper, we propose a theoretically founded sequential strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the form of clicks. The proposed approach consists in minimizing pairwise ranking loss…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Frack Iutzeller , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

Session-based recommendation aims to predict user the next action based on historical behaviors in an anonymous session. For better recommendations, it is vital to capture user preferences as well as their dynamics. Besides, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Xiaoyong Huai , Zhiqi Fang , Songlin Hu

Session-based recommendation tries to make use of anonymous session data to deliver high-quality recommendation under the condition that user-profiles and the complete historical behavioral data of a target user are unavailable. Previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhi-Hong Deng , Chang-Dong Wang , Ling Huang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Large scale recommender models find most relevant items from huge catalogs, and they play a critical role in modern search and recommendation systems. To model the input space with large-vocab categorical features, a typical recommender…

In session-based or sequential recommendation, it is important to consider a number of factors like long-term user engagement, multiple types of user-item interactions such as clicks, purchases etc. The current state-of-the-art supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xin Xin , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M. Jose

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) aim to predict users' subsequent choices based on their historical interactions and have found applications in diverse fields such as e-commerce and social media. However, in real-world systems, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Yejing Wang , Zijian Zhang , Feng Tian , Yefeng Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

Session-based recommendations are highly relevant in many modern on-line services (e.g. e-commerce, video streaming) and recommendation settings. Recently, Recurrent Neural Networks have been shown to perform very well in session-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Massimo Quadrana , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Balázs Hidasi , Paolo Cremonesi

In this work, we propose a Unified framework of Sequential Search and Recommendation (UnifiedSSR) for joint learning of user behavior history in both search and recommendation scenarios. Specifically, we consider user-interacted products in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiayi Xie , Shang Liu , Gao Cong , Zhenzhong Chen

Conversational recommendation systems (CRSs) use multi-turn interaction to capture user preferences and provide personalized recommendations. A fundamental challenge in CRSs lies in effectively understanding user preferences from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xiaolei Wang , Chunxuan Xia , Junyi Li , Fanzhe Meng , Lei Huang , Jinpeng Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

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

The sequential recommendation system utilizes historical user interactions to predict preferences. Effectively integrating diverse user behavior patterns with rich multimodal information of items to enhance the accuracy of sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xiaoxi Cui , Weihai Lu , Yu Tong , Yiheng Li , Zhejun Zhao

Session-based recommendation, aiming at making the prediction of the user's next item click based on the information in a single session only, even in the presence of some random user's behavior, is a complex problem. This complex problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ruida Wang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Weile Tan

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to predict anonymous users' next interaction based on their interaction sessions. In the practical recommendation scenario, low-exposure items constitute the majority of interactions, creating a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xiao Wang , Ke Qin , Dongyang Zhang , Xiurui Xie , Shuang Liang

An effective online recommendation system should jointly capture users' long-term and short-term preferences in both users' internal behaviors (from the target recommendation task) and external behaviors (from other tasks). However, it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ruobing Xie , Yalong Wang , Rui Wang , Yuanfu Lu , Yuanhang Zou , Feng Xia , Leyu Lin

Session-based recommender systems typically focus on using only the triplet (user_id, timestamp, item_id) to make predictions of users' next actions. In this paper, we aim to utilize side information to help recommender systems catch…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yukun Jiang , Leo Guo , Xinyi Chen , Jing Xi Liu

Session-based recommendation is a challenging problem in the real-world scenes, e.g., ecommerce, short video platforms, and music platforms, which aims to predict the next click action based on the anonymous session. Recently, graph neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Guanghui Zhu , Haojun Hou , Jingfan Chen , Chunfeng Yuan , Yihua Huang

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) could acquire dynamic user preferences towards desired items through multi-round interactive dialogue. Previous CRS mainly focuses on the single conversation (subsession) that user quits after a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yu Ji , Qi Shen , Shixuan Zhu , Hang Yu , Yiming Zhang , Chuan Cui , Zhihua Wei

Modeling the evolution of user preference is essential in recommender systems. Recently, dynamic graph-based methods have been studied and achieved SOTA for recommendation, majority of which focus on user's stable long-term preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Huixuan Chi , Hao Xu , Hao Fu , Mengya Liu , Mengdi Zhang , Yuji Yang , Qinfen Hao , Wei Wu

In recent years, content recommendation systems in large websites (or \emph{content providers}) capture an increased focus. While the type of content varies, e.g.\ movies, articles, music, advertisements, etc., the high level problem…

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