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Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) alleviates interaction sparsity by jointly modeling user behaviors across multiple domains. While current studies have made some progresses, they still neglect two issues that severely impact…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhida Qin , Zemu Liu , Haoyan Fu , Chong Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Yidong Li , Gangyi Ding

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

Sequential self-attention models usually rely on additive positional embeddings, which inject positional information into item representations at the input. In the absence of positional signals, the attention block is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Timur Nabiev , Evgeny Frolov

Transformer-based sequential recommenders are very powerful for capturing both short-term and long-term sequential item dependencies. This is mainly attributed to their unique self-attention networks to exploit pairwise item-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Huiyuan Chen , Yusan Lin , Menghai Pan , Lan Wang , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Xiaoting Li , Yan Zheng , Fei Wang , Hao Yang

While many production-ready and robust algorithms are available for the task of recommendation systems, many of these systems do not take the order of user's consumption into account. The order of consumption can be very useful and matters…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Meysam Varasteh , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Sequential recommendation leverages interaction sequences to predict forthcoming user behaviors, crucial for crafting personalized recommendations. However, the true preferences of a user are inherently complex and high-dimensional, while…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shu Chen , Jinwei Luo , Weike Pan , Jiangxing Yu , Xin Huang , Zhong Ming

Sequential recommendation is a popular paradigm in modern recommender systems. In particular, one challenging problem in this space is cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR), which aims to predict future behaviors given user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Clark Mingxuan Ju , Leonardo Neves , Bhuvesh Kumar , Liam Collins , Tong Zhao , Yuwei Qiu , Qing Dou , Sohail Nizam , Sen Yang , Neil Shah

Recommendation system plays an important role in online web applications. Sequential recommender further models user short-term preference through exploiting information from latest user-item interaction history. Most of the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Ye Tao , Can Wang , Lina Yao , Weimin Li , Yonghong Yu

Modern music streaming services are heavily based on recommendation engines to serve content to users. Sequential recommendation -- continuously providing new items within a single session in a contextually coherent manner -- has been an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Pavan Seshadri , Shahrzad Shashaani , Peter Knees

Sequential recommendations aim to capture users' preferences from their historical interactions so as to predict the next item that they will interact with. Sequential recommendation methods usually assume that all items in a user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yujie Lin , Chenyang Wang , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Xin Xin , Qiang Yan , Maarten de Rijke , Xiuzhen Cheng , Pengjie Ren

Self-attentive transformer models have recently been shown to solve the next item recommendation task very efficiently. The learned attention weights capture sequential dynamics in user behavior and generalize well. Motivated by the special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Evgeny Frolov , Ivan Oseledets

Sequential Recommendation (SR) captures users' dynamic preferences by modeling how users transit among items. However, SR models that utilize only single type of behavior interaction data encounter performance degradation when the sequences…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Jiajie Su , Chaochao Chen , Zibin Lin , Xi Li , Weiming Liu , Xiaolin Zheng

Many real-world applications involve multivariate, geo-tagged time series data: at each location, multiple sensors record corresponding measurements. For example, air quality monitoring system records PM2.5, CO, etc. The resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Jiawei Ma , Zheng Shou , Alireza Zareian , Hassan Mansour , Anthony Vetro , Shih-Fu Chang

Most sequential recommendation models capture the features of consecutive items in a user-item interaction history. Though effective, their representation expressiveness is still hindered by the sparse learning signals. As a result, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xu Yuan , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Bo Long

Sequential recommendation systems predict the next interaction item based on users' past interactions, aligning recommendations with individual preferences. Leveraging the strengths of Large Language Models (LLMs) in knowledge comprehension…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaoyu Kong , Jiancan Wu , An Zhang , Leheng Sheng , Hui Lin , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He

Sequential recommender systems have shown effective suggestions by capturing users' interest drift. There have been two groups of existing sequential models: user- and item-centric models. The user-centric models capture personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Dongmin Hyun , Chanyoung Park , Junsu Cho , Hwanjo Yu

Modern large-scale recommendation systems rely heavily on user interaction history sequences to enhance the model performance. The advent of large language models and sequential modeling techniques, particularly transformer-like…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhimin Chen , Chenyu Zhao , Ka Chun Mo , Yunjiang Jiang , Jane H. Lee , Khushhall Chandra Mahajan , Ning Jiang , Kai Ren , Jinhui Li , Wen-Yun Yang

Sequence labeling is a fundamental task in natural language processing and has been widely studied. Recently, RNN-based sequence labeling models have increasingly gained attentions. Despite superior performance achieved by learning the long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Wei Wei , Zanbo Wang , Xianling Mao , Guangyou Zhou , Pan Zhou , Sheng Jiang

Sequential recommendation aims to model dynamic user behavior from historical interactions. Self-attentive methods have proven effective at capturing short-term dynamics and long-term preferences. Despite their success, these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiacheng Li , Tong Zhao , Jin Li , Jim Chan , Christos Faloutsos , George Karypis , Soo-Min Pantel , Julian McAuley

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