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Sequential Recommendation is a popular recommendation task that uses the order of user-item interaction to model evolving users' interests and sequential patterns in their behaviour. Current state-of-the-art Transformer-based models for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

We propose and design recommendation systems that incentivize efficient exploration. Agents arrive sequentially, choose actions and receive rewards, drawn from fixed but unknown action-specific distributions. The recommendation system…

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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

Understanding human preferences is crucial for improving foundation models and building personalized AI systems. However, preferences are inherently diverse and complex, making it difficult for traditional reward models to capture their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Feng Luo , Rui Yang , Hao Sun , Chunyuan Deng , Jiarui Yao , Jingyan Shen , Huan Zhang , Hanjie Chen

Sequential recommender models typically generate predictions in a single step during testing, without considering additional prediction correction to enhance performance as humans would. To improve the accuracy of these models, some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yulong Huang , Yang Zhang , Qifan Wang , Chenxu Wang , Fuli Feng

At the present time, sequential item recommendation models are compared by calculating metrics on a small item subset (target set) to speed up computation. The target set contains the relevant item and a set of negative items that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Alexander Dallmann , Daniel Zoller , Andreas Hotho

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

Increasing concerns with privacy have stimulated interests in Session-based Recommendation (SR) using no personal data other than what is observed in the current browser session. Existing methods are evaluated in static settings which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Fei Mi , Boi Faltings

We consider the task of learning from both positive and negative feedback in a sequential recommendation scenario, as both types of feedback are often present in user interactions. Meanwhile, conventional sequential learning models usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Veronika Ivanova , Evgeny Frolov , Alexey Vasilev

Sequential recommenders have made great strides in capturing a user's preferences. Nevertheless, the cold-start recommendation remains a fundamental challenge as they typically involve limited user-item interactions for personalization.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Minchang Kim , Yongjin Yang , Jung Hyun Ryu , Taesup Kim

Autocomplete suggestions are fundamental to modern text entry systems, with applications in domains such as messaging and email composition. Typically, autocomplete suggestions are generated from a language model with a confidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Rohan Chitnis , Shentao Yang , Alborz Geramifard

Writing review for a purchased item is a unique channel to express a user's opinion in E-Commerce. Recently, many deep learning based solutions have been proposed by exploiting user reviews for rating prediction. In contrast, there has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Chenliang Li , Xichuan Niu , Xiangyang Luo , Zhenzhong Chen , Cong Quan

Sequential recommendation (SR) models the dynamic user preferences and generates the next-item prediction as the affinity between the sequence and items, in a joint latent space with low dimensions (i.e., the sequence and item embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

In recommender systems, modeling user-item behaviors is essential for user representation learning. Existing sequential recommenders consider the sequential correlations between historically interacted items for capturing users' historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yujie Lu , Shengyu Zhang , Yingxuan Huang , Luyao Wang , Xinyao Yu , Zhou Zhao , Fei Wu

Understanding user preference is essential to the optimization of recommender systems. As a feedback of user's taste, rating scores can directly reflect the preference of a given user to a given product. Uncovering the latent components of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Junhua Chen , Wei Zeng , Junming Shao , Ge Fan

Recent cross-domain recommendation (CDR) studies assume that disentangled domain-shared and domain-specific user representations can mitigate domain gaps and facilitate effective knowledge transfer. However, achieving perfect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Michael Sheng , Lina Yao

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

Deep learning-based recommendation has become a widely adopted technique in various online applications. Typically, a deployed model undergoes frequent re-training to capture users' dynamic behaviors from newly collected interaction logs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Guohao Cai , Jieming Zhu , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Xiuqiang He , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang

The amount of content on online music streaming platforms is immense, and most users only access a tiny fraction of this content. Recommender systems are the application of choice to open up the collection to these users. Collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Cedric De Boom , Rohan Agrawal , Samantha Hansen , Esh Kumar , Romain Yon , Ching-Wei Chen , Thomas Demeester , Bart Dhoedt

In this paper, we propose a novel ranking framework for collaborative filtering with the overall aim of learning user preferences over items by minimizing a pairwise ranking loss. We show the minimization problem involves dependent random…