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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiayi Xie , Shang Liu , Gao Cong , Zhenzhong Chen

Sequential recommendation (SR) models predict a user's next interaction by modeling their historical behaviors. Transformer-based SR methods, notably BERT4Rec, effectively capture these patterns but incur significant computational overhead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shankar Veludandi , Gulrukh Kurdistan , Uzma Mushtaque

Sequential recommendation requires the recommender to capture the evolving behavior characteristics from logged user behavior data for accurate recommendations. However, user behavior sequences are viewed as a script with multiple ongoing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Zhiyu Yao , Xinyang Chen , Sinan Wang , Qinyan Dai , Yumeng Li , Tanchao Zhu , Mingsheng Long

A user can be represented as what he/she does along the history. A common way to deal with the user modeling problem is to manually extract all kinds of aggregated features over the heterogeneous behaviors, which may fail to fully represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Chang Zhou , Jinze Bai , Junshuai Song , Xiaofei Liu , Zhengchao Zhao , Xiusi Chen , Jun Gao

Representation learning produces models in different domains, such as store purchases, client transactions, and general people's behavior. However, such models for event sequences usually process each sequence in isolation, ignoring context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Petr Sokerin , Maria Kovaleva , Ekaterina Boyarina , Pavel Tikhomirov , Denis Vorobiyov , Alexey Zaytsev

Modeling the complex interactions between users and items as well as amongst items themselves is at the core of designing successful recommender systems. One classical setting is predicting users' personalized sequential behavior (or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Ruining He , Wang-Cheng Kang , Julian McAuley

Most of the existing recommender systems use the ratings provided by users on individual items. An additional source of preference information is to use the ratings that users provide on sets of items. The advantages of using preferences on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohit Sharma , F. Maxwell Harper , George Karypis

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) has become an emerging research topic seeking to perform recommendations through interactive conversations, which generally consist of generation and recommendation modules. Prior work on CRS tends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Lingzhi Wang , Shafiq Joty , Wei Gao , Xingshan Zeng , Kam-Fai Wong

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

With the rapid development of recommender systems, there is increasing side information that can be employed to improve the recommendation performance. Specially, we focus on the utilization of the associated \emph{textual data} of items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Lanling Xu , Zhen Tian , Bingqian Li , Junjie Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Mingchen Cai , Wayne Xin Zhao

Recently, electronic commerce (EC) websites have been unable to provide an identification number (user ID) for each transaction data entry because of privacy issues. Because most recommendation methods assume that all data are assigned a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuta Sumiya , Ryusei Numata , Satoshi Takahashi

As conversational agents accumulate experience collaborating with users, adapting to user preferences is essential for fostering long-term relationships and improving collaboration quality over time. We introduce MultiSessionCollab, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuhaib Mehri , Priyanka Kargupta , Tal August , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

In this work, we examine the advantages of using multiple types of behaviour in recommendation systems. Intuitively, each user has to do some implicit actions (e.g., click) before making an explicit decision (e.g., purchase). Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Quyen Tran , Lam Tran , Linh Chu Hai , Linh Ngo Van , Khoat Than

Sequential Recommendation is a prominent topic in current research, which uses user behavior sequence as an input to predict future behavior. By assessing the correlation strength of historical behavior through the dot product, the model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jiayi Chen , Wen Wu , Liye Shi , Yu Ji , Wenxin Hu , Xi Chen , Wei Zheng , Liang He

Sequential recommendation models have been widely adopted for modeling user behavior. Existing approaches typically construct user interaction sequences by sorting items according to timestamps and then model user preferences from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Haolin Zhang , Longtao Xiao , Guohao Cai , Ruixuan Li , Xiu Li

Predicting the next interaction of a short-term sequence is a challenging task in session-based recommendation (SBR).Multi-behavior session recommendation considers session sequence with multiple interaction types, such as click and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Qi Shen , Lingfei Wu , Yitong Pang , Yiming Zhang , Zhihua Wei , Fangli Xu , Bo Long

Frequent group activities of human beings have become an indispensable part in their daily life. Group recommendation can recommend satisfactory activities to group members in the recommender systems, and the key issue is how to aggregate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Peipei Wang , Lin Li , Yi Yu , Guandong Xu

This study introduces CUPID, a novel approach to session-based reciprocal recommendation systems designed for a real-time one-on-one social discovery platform. In such platforms, low latency is critical to enhance user experiences. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Beomsu Kim , Sangbum Kim , Minchan Kim , Joonyoung Yi , Sungjoo Ha , Suhyun Lee , Youngsoo Lee , Gihun Yeom , Buru Chang , Gihun Lee

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

Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that formulates the recommendations into a text-to-text generation task, harnessing the vast knowledge of large language models. However, existing studies focus on considering…

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