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The goal of modern sequential recommender systems is often formulated in terms of next-item prediction. In this paper, we explore the applicability of generative transformer-based models for the Top-K sequential recommendation task, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Anna Volodkevich , Danil Gusak , Anton Klenitskiy , Alexey Vasilev

Sequential Recommendation (SR) task involves predicting the next item a user is likely to interact with, given their past interactions. The SR models examine the sequence of a user's actions to discern more complex behavioral patterns and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wujiang Xu , Qitian Wu , Zujie Liang , Jiaojiao Han , Xuying Ning , Yunxiao Shi , Wenfang Lin , Yongfeng Zhang

Session-based recommender systems have attracted much attention recently. To capture the sequential dependencies, existing methods resort either to data augmentation techniques or left-to-right style autoregressive training.Since these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Fajie Yuan , Xiangnan He , Haochuan Jiang , Guibing Guo , Jian Xiong , Zhezhao Xu , Yilin Xiong

Sequential recommendation models, models that learn from chronological user-item interactions, outperform traditional recommendation models in many settings. Despite the success of sequential recommendation models, their robustness has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Juntao Tan , Shelby Heinecke , Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Yongfeng Zhang , Huan Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for recommendation thanks to their advanced textual understanding ability and context-awareness. Despite the current practice of training and evaluating LLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sein Kim , Hongseok Kang , Kibum Kim , Jiwan Kim , Donghyun Kim , Minchul Yang , Kwangjin Oh , Julian McAuley , Chanyoung Park

Classification is an important task in many fields including biomedical research and machine learning. Traditionally, a classification rule is constructed based a bunch of labeled data. Recently, due to technological innovation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-19 Jing Wang , Eunsik Park , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

The task of assigning label sequences to a set of observed sequences is common in computational linguistics. Several models for sequence labeling have been proposed over the last few years. Here, we focus on discriminative models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 P. Balamurugan , Shirish Shevade , S. Sundararajan , S. S Keerthi

Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSR) aims to incorporate behavior types of interactions for better recommendations. Existing approaches focus on the next-item prediction objective, neglecting the value of integrating the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zihan Liu , Yupeng Hou , Julian McAuley

Pre-trained text encoders such as BERT and its variants have recently achieved state-of-the-art performances on many NLP tasks. While being effective, these pre-training methods typically demand massive computation resources. To accelerate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jiaming Shen , Jialu Liu , Tianqi Liu , Cong Yu , Jiawei Han

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently introduced in the domain of session-based next item recommendation. An ordered collection of past items the user has interacted with in a session (or sequence) are embedded into a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Fajie Yuan , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M Jose , Xiangnan He

Data of sequential nature arise in many application domains in forms of, e.g. textual data, DNA sequences, and software execution traces. Different research disciplines have developed methods to learn sequence models from such datasets: (i)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Niek Tax , Irene Teinemaa , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst

Top-$N$ sequential recommendation models each user as a sequence of items interacted in the past and aims to predict top-$N$ ranked items that a user will likely interact in a `near future'. The order of interaction implies that sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Jiaxi Tang , Ke Wang

Modeling the sequential correlation of users' historical interactions is essential in sequential recommendation. However, the majority of the approaches mainly focus on modeling the \emph{intra-sequence} item correlation within each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feng Liu , Weiwen Liu , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye

Sequential recommendation task aims to predict user preference over items in the future given user historical behaviors. The order of user behaviors implies that there are resourceful sequential patterns embedded in the behavior history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jiarui Qin , Kan Ren , Yuchen Fang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

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 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

Sequential recommendations have drawn significant attention in modeling the user's historical behaviors to predict the next item. With the booming development of multimodal data (e.g., image, text) on internet platforms, sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Changhong Li , Zhiqiang Guo

Deliberation networks are a family of sequence-to-sequence models, which have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of tasks such as machine translation and speech synthesis. A deliberation network consists of multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Qingyun Dou , Mark Gales

We consider the problem of sequential recommendation, where the current recommendation is made based on past interactions. This recommendation task requires efficient processing of the sequential data and aims to provide recommendations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xumei Xi , Yuke Zhao , Quan Liu , Liwen Ouyang , Yang Wu

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-based models such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald