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Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict the subsequent behaviors of users by understanding their successive historical behaviors. Recently, some methods for SR are devoted to alleviating the data sparsity problem (i.e., limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ziyang Wang , Huoyu Liu , Wei Wei , Yue Hu , Xian-Ling Mao , Shaojian He , Rui Fang , Dangyang chen

Transformer and its variants are a powerful class of architectures for sequential recommendation, owing to their ability of capturing a user's dynamic interests from their past interactions. Despite their success, Transformer-based models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Vivian Lai , Huiyuan Chen , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Minghua Xu , Yiwei Cai , Hao Yang

Sequential recommendation methods play a crucial role in modern recommender systems because of their ability to capture a user's dynamic interest from her/his historical interactions. Despite their success, we argue that these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xu Xie , Fei Sun , Zhaoyang Liu , Shiwen Wu , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Bin Cui

Recently, relational metric learning methods have been received great attention in recommendation community, which is inspired by the translation mechanism in knowledge graph. Different from the knowledge graph where the entity-to-entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingming Li , Fuqing Zhu , Feng Yuan , Songlin Hu

LLM-based agents are emerging as a promising paradigm for simulating user behavior to enhance recommender systems. However, their effectiveness is often limited by existing studies that focus on modeling user ratings for individual items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiahao Wang , Bokang Fu , Yu Zhu , Yuli Liu

As users often express their preferences with binary behavior data~(implicit feedback), such as clicking items or buying products, implicit feedback based Collaborative Filtering~(CF) models predict the top ranked items a user might like by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Lei Chen , Le Wu , Kun Zhang , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Sequential recommender systems have become increasingly important in real-world applications that model user behavior sequences to predict their preferences. However, existing sequential recommendation methods predominantly rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Xiaolei Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jinpeng Wang , Sheng Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Sequential Recommendation characterizes the evolving patterns by modeling item sequences chronologically. The essential target of it is to capture the item transition correlations. The recent developments of transformer inspire the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhiwei Liu , Ziwei Fan , Yu Wang , Philip S. Yu

Recently, sequential recommendation has emerged as a widely studied topic. Existing researches mainly design effective neural architectures to model user behavior sequences based on item IDs. However, this kind of approach highly relies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Shanlei Mu , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

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

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

Item representation learning (IRL) plays an essential role in recommender systems, especially for sequential recommendation. Traditional sequential recommendation models usually utilize ID embeddings to represent items, which are not shared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Shenghao Yang , Chenyang Wang , Yankai Liu , Kangping Xu , Weizhi Ma , Yiqun Liu , Min Zhang , Haitao Zeng , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng

Recently, sequential recommendation has been adapted to the LLM paradigm to enjoy the power of LLMs. LLM-based methods usually formulate recommendation information into natural language and the model is trained to predict the next item in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Hanbing Wang , Xiaorui Liu , Wenqi Fan , Xiangyu Zhao , Venkataramana Kini , Devendra Yadav , Fei Wang , Zhen Wen , Jiliang Tang , Hui Liu

Deep learning has brought great progress for the sequential recommendation (SR) tasks. With advanced network architectures, sequential recommender models can be stacked with many hidden layers, e.g., up to 100 layers on real-world…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiachun Wang , Fajie Yuan , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Min Yang , Yang Sun , Guoxiao Zhang

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item based on user interests in historical interaction sequences. Historical interaction sequences often contain irrelevant noisy items, which significantly hinders the performance of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Liang Li , Zhou Yang , Xiaofei Zhu

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing the next-generation recommender systems (RSs) based on pretrained large language models (LLMs). However, the semantic gap between natural language and recommendation tasks is still not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yaochen Zhu , Liang Wu , Qi Guo , Liangjie Hong , Jundong Li

Zero-shot cross-domain sequential recommendation (ZCDSR) enables predictions in unseen domains without additional training or fine-tuning, addressing the limitations of traditional models in sparse data environments. Recent advancements in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yunzhe Li , Junting Wang , Hari Sundaram , Zhining Liu

Deep learning-based sequential recommender systems have recently attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry. Most of industrial Embedding-Based Retrieval (EBR) system for recommendation share the similar ideas with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Fuyu Lv , Mengxue Li , Tonglei Guo , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Taiwei Jin , Wilfred Ng

Representation learning is essential for deep-neural-network-based recommender systems to capture user preferences and item features within fixed-dimensional user and item vectors. Unlike existing representation learning methods that either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Riwei Lai , Li Chen , Weixin Chen , Rui Chen

The modern recommender systems are facing an increasing challenge of modelling and predicting the dynamic and context-rich user preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering and content-based methods often struggle to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yitong Li , Raoul Grasman