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In recent years, sequential recommender systems (SRSs) and session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) have emerged as a new paradigm of RSs to capture users' short-term but dynamic preferences for enabling more timely and accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shoujin Wang , Qi Zhang , Liang Hu , Xiuzhen Zhang , Yan Wang , Charu Aggarwal

Sequential Recommendation (SR) characterizes evolving patterns of user behaviors by modeling how users transit among items. However, the short interaction sequences limit the performance of existing SR. To solve this problem, we focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Xiaolin Zheng , Jiajie Su , Weiming Liu , Chaochao Chen

Sequential recommendation (SR) models are typically trained on user-item interactions which are affected by the system exposure bias, leading to the user preference learned from the biased SR model not being fully consistent with the true…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jiyuan Yang , Yue Ding , Yidan Wang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Fei Cai , Jun Ma , Rui Zhang , Zhaochun Ren , Xin Xin

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to uncover and transfer users' sequential preferences across multiple recommendation domains. While significant endeavors have been made, they primarily concentrated on developing advanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Zhi Li , Sirui Zhao , Zhen Wang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

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

The integration of multimodal information into sequential recommender systems has attracted significant attention in recent research. In the initial stages of multimodal sequential recommendation models, the mainstream paradigm was…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jiaxi Hu , Jingtong Gao , Xiangyu Zhao , Yuehong Hu , Yuxuan Liang , Yiqi Wang , Ming He , Zitao Liu , Hongzhi Yin

Generative models are increasingly used in recommender systems, both for modeling user behavior as event sequences and for integrating large language models into recommendation pipelines. A key challenge in this setting is the extremely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kirill Khrylchenko

Dynamic sequential recommendation (DSR) can generate model parameters based on user behavior to improve the personalization of sequential recommendation under various user preferences. However, it faces the challenges of large parameter…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zheqi Lv , Shaoxuan He , Tianyu Zhan , Shengyu Zhang , Wenqiao Zhang , Jingyuan Chen , Zhou Zhao , Fei Wu

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked interest in their application to sequential recommendation tasks as they can provide supportive item information. However, due to the inherent complexities of sequential recommendation,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Jianguo Zhang , Weiran Yao , Shelby Heinecke , Philip S. Yu

Multimodal recommender systems (MRSs) are critical for various online platforms, offering users more accurate personalized recommendations by incorporating multimodal information of items. Structure-based MRSs have achieved state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Ziyuan Guo , Jie Guo , Zhenghao Chen , Bin Song , Fei Richard Yu

Online recommender systems (RS) aim to match user needs with the vast amount of resources available on various platforms. A key challenge is to model user preferences accurately under the condition of data sparsity. To address this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Ning Wu , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Jian Pei , Daxin Jiang

In recommender systems (RSs), predicting the next item that a user interacts with is critical for user retention. While the last decade has seen an explosion of RSs aimed at identifying relevant items that match user preferences, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zekarias T. Kefato , Sarunas Girdzijauskas , Nasrullah Sheikh , Alberto Montresor

In the domain of consumer electronics, personalized sequential recommendation has emerged as a central task. Current methodologies in this field are largely centered on modeling user behavior and have achieved notable performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yicheng Di

Modeling user interests is crucial in real-world recommender systems. In this paper, we present a new user interest representation model for personalized recommendation. Specifically, the key novelty behind our model is that it explicitly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Shuai Zhang , Huoyu Liu , Aston Zhang , Yue Hu , Ce Zhang , Yumeng Li , Tanchao Zhu , Shaojian He , Wenwu Ou

Sequential recommendation (SR) leverages users' dynamic preferences, with recent advances incorporating multi-interest learning to model diverse user interests. However, most multi-interest SR models rely on noisy, sparse implicit feedback,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shutong Qiao , Chen Gao , Wei Yuan , Yong Li , Hongzhi Yin

Recommender systems are indispensable in the realm of online applications, and sequential recommendation has enjoyed considerable prevalence due to its capacity to encapsulate the dynamic shifts in user interests. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junzhe Jiang , Shang Qu , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Kai Zhang , Rui Li , Jiatong Li , Min Gao

Sequential recommendation, a critical task in recommendation systems, predicts the next user action based on the understanding of the user's historical behaviors. Conventional studies mainly focus on cross-behavior modeling with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhen Gong , Zhifang Fan , Hui Lu , Qiwei Chen , Chenbin Zhang , Lin Guan , Yuchao Zheng , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Sequential recommendation aims at understanding user preference by capturing successive behavior correlations, which are usually represented as the item purchasing sequences based on their past interactions. Existing efforts generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yifang Qin , Wei Ju , Hongjun Wu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) is a hot topic in sequence-based user interest modeling, which aims at utilizing a single model to predict the next items for different domains. To tackle the CDSR, many methods are focused on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Haipeng Li , Jiangxia Cao , Yiwen Gao , Yunhuai Liu , Shuchao Pang

Modeling time-evolving preferences of users with their sequential item interactions, has attracted increasing attention in many online applications. Hence, sequential recommender systems have been developed to learn the dynamic user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Jian Pei