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Recommender systems that can learn from cross-session data to dynamically predict the next item a user will choose are crucial for online platforms. However, existing approaches often use out-of-the-box sequence models which are limited by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-14 Jiaxuan You , Yichen Wang , Aditya Pal , Pong Eksombatchai , Chuck Rosenberg , Jure Leskovec

Recommender systems learn from past user behavior to predict future user preferences. Intuitively, it has been established that the most recent interactions are more indicative of future preferences than older interactions. Many…

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Digital platforms such as social media and e-commerce websites adopt Recommender Systems to provide value to the user. However, the social consequences deriving from their adoption are still unclear. Many scholars argue that recommenders…

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Users try to articulate their complex information needs during search sessions by reformulating their queries. To make this process more effective, search engines provide related queries to help users in specifying the information need in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mostafa Dehghani , Sascha Rothe , Enrique Alfonseca , Pascal Fleury

In this work, we propose a Unified framework of Sequential Search and Recommendation (UnifiedSSR) for joint learning of user behavior history in both search and recommendation scenarios. Specifically, we consider user-interacted products in…

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

The modeling of users' behaviors is crucial in modern recommendation systems. A lot of research focuses on modeling users' lifelong sequences, which can be extremely long and sometimes exceed thousands of items. These models use the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kaiming Shen , Xichen Ding , Zixiang Zheng , Yuqi Gong , Qianqian Li , Zhongyi Liu , Guannan Zhang

Session-based recommendation aims to predict user the next action based on historical behaviors in an anonymous session. For better recommendations, it is vital to capture user preferences as well as their dynamics. Besides, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Xiaoyong Huai , Zhiqi Fang , Songlin Hu

Recent recommender system advancements have focused on developing sequence-based and graph-based approaches. Both approaches proved useful in modeling intricate relationships within behavioral data, leading to promising outcomes in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Vladimir Baikalov , Evgeny Frolov

Sequential Recommendation (SeqRec) aims to predict the next item by capturing sequential patterns from users' historical interactions, playing a crucial role in many real-world recommender systems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xu Chen , Wen Chen , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang

People react differently to inspirations shown to them during brainstorming. Existing research on large-scale ideation systems has investigated this phenomenon through aspects of timing, inspiration similarity and inspiration integration.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Maximilian Mackeprang , Kim Kern , Thomas Hadler , Claudia Müller-Birn

Most sequential recommendation models capture the features of consecutive items in a user-item interaction history. Though effective, their representation expressiveness is still hindered by the sparse learning signals. As a result, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xu Yuan , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Bo Long

Predicting the next location is a highly valuable and common need in many location-based services such as destination prediction and route planning. The goal of next location recommendation is to predict the next point-of-interest a user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yan Luo , Ye Liu , Fu-lai Chung , Yu Liu , Chang Wen Chen

Modern large-scale recommendation systems rely heavily on user interaction history sequences to enhance the model performance. The advent of large language models and sequential modeling techniques, particularly transformer-like…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhimin Chen , Chenyu Zhao , Ka Chun Mo , Yunjiang Jiang , Jane H. Lee , Khushhall Chandra Mahajan , Ning Jiang , Kai Ren , Jinhui Li , Wen-Yun Yang

Sequential interaction networks (SIN) have been commonly adopted in many applications such as recommendation systems, search engines and social networks to describe the mutual influence between users and items/products. Efforts on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Junda Ye , Zhongbao Zhang , Li Sun , Yang Yan , Feiyang Wang , Fuxin Ren

Opinion prediction is an emerging research area with diverse real-world applications, such as market research and situational awareness. We identify two lines of approaches to the problem of opinion prediction. One uses topic-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kishore Tumarada , Yifan Zhang , Fan Yang , Eduard Dragut , Omprakash Gnawali , Arjun Mukherjee

Recommendation models can effectively estimate underlying user interests and predict one's future behaviors by factorizing an observed user-item rating matrix into products of two sets of latent factors. However, the user-specific embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Qitian Wu , Hengrui Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

While generative recommendations (GR) possess strong sequential reasoning capabilities, they face significant challenges when processing extremely long user behavior sequences: the high computational cost forces practical sequence lengths…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yu Zhou , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Ji Liu , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Sequential recommendation is often considered as a generative task, i.e., training a sequential encoder to generate the next item of a user's interests based on her historical interacted items. Despite their prevalence, these methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Caiming Xiong

User modeling is critical for many personalized web services. Many existing methods model users based on their behaviors and the labeled data of target tasks. However, these methods cannot exploit useful information in unlabeled user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Jianxun Lian , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems. User behavior sequences, as one of the most effective features, can accurately reflect user preferences and significantly improve prediction accuracy.…

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