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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

Sequential recommender infers users' evolving psychological motivations from historical interactions to recommend the next preferred items. Most existing methods compress recent behaviors into a single vector and optimize it toward a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yicheng Di , Yuan Liu , Zhi Chen , Jingcai Guo

User simulation is essential for generating enough data to train a statistical spoken dialogue system. Previous models for user simulation suffer from several drawbacks, such as the inability to take dialogue history into account, the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Layla El Asri , Jing He , Kaheer Suleman

User representation learning is vital to capture diverse user preferences, while it is also challenging as user intents are latent and scattered among complex and different modalities of user-generated data, thus, not directly measurable.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Lin Gong , Lu Lin , Weihao Song , Hongning Wang

Generative retrieval methods utilize generative sequential modeling techniques, such as transformers, to generate candidate items for recommender systems. These methods have demonstrated promising results in academic benchmarks, surpassing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Prabhat Agarwal , Anirudhan Badrinath , Laksh Bhasin , Jaewon Yang , Edoardo Botta , Jiajing Xu , Charles Rosenberg

Recent sequential recommendation models rely increasingly on consecutive short-term user-item interaction sequences to model user interests. These approaches have, however, raised concerns about both short- and long-term interests. (1) {\it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Lina Yao , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu

Recommender systems are ubiquitous in on-line services to drive businesses. And many sequential recommender models were deployed in these systems to enhance personalization. The approach of using the transformer decoder as the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zan Huang

Capturing users' precise preferences is a fundamental problem in large-scale recommender system. Currently, item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods are common matching approaches in industry. However, they are not effective to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Fuyu Lv , Taiwei Jin , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Quan Lin , Keping Yang , Wilfred Ng

Modeling ultra-long user behavior sequences is critical for capturing both long- and short-term preferences in industrial recommender systems. Existing solutions typically rely on two-stage retrieval or indirect modeling paradigms, incuring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zheng Chai , Qin Ren , Xijun Xiao , Huizhi Yang , Bo Han , Sijun Zhang , Di Chen , Hui Lu , Wenlin Zhao , Lele Yu , Xionghang Xie , Shiru Ren , Xiang Sun , Yaocheng Tan , Peng Xu , Yuchao Zheng , Di Wu

Recommender systems play a central role in numerous real-life applications, yet evaluating their performance remains a significant challenge due to the gap between offline metrics and online behaviors. Given the scarcity and limits (e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Nicolas Bougie , Narimasa Watanabe

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

Modeling the evolution of user preference is essential in recommender systems. Recently, dynamic graph-based methods have been studied and achieved SOTA for recommendation, majority of which focus on user's stable long-term preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Huixuan Chi , Hao Xu , Hao Fu , Mengya Liu , Mengdi Zhang , Yuji Yang , Qinfen Hao , Wei Wu

User embeddings play a crucial role in user engagement forecasting and personalized services. Recent advances in sequence modeling have sparked interest in learning user embeddings from behavioral data. Yet behavior-based user embedding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhihan Zhou , Qixiang Fang , Leonardo Neves , Francesco Barbieri , Yozen Liu , Han Liu , Maarten W. Bos , Ron Dotsch

Sequential recommendation systems alleviate the problem of information overload, and have attracted increasing attention in the literature. Most prior works usually obtain an overall representation based on the user's behavior sequence,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Gaode Chen , Xinghua Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Cong Xue , Ji Xiang

Modern online platforms offer users an opportunity to participate in a variety of content-creation, social networking, and shopping activities. With the rapid proliferation of such online services, learning data-driven user behavior models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Aravind Sankar

Industrial large-scale recommendation models (LRMs) face the challenge of jointly modeling long-range user behavior sequences and heterogeneous non-sequential features under strict efficiency constraints. However, most existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yunwen Huang , Shiyong Hong , Xijun Xiao , Jinqiu Jin , Xuanyuan Luo , Zhe Wang , Zheng Chai , Shikang Wu , Yuchao Zheng , Jingjian Lin

News recommendation is one of the most challenging tasks in recommender systems, mainly due to the ephemeral relevance of news to users. As social media, and particularly microblogging applications like Twitter or Weibo, gains popularity as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yuting Feng , Bogdan Cautis

Sequential recommendation has become increasingly essential in various online services. It aims to model the dynamic preferences of users from their historical interactions and predict their next items. The accumulated user behavior records…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Jianwei Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Xiao Huang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Xia Hu

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

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