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Sequential recommender systems (SRS) could capture dynamic user preferences by modeling historical behaviors ordered in time. Despite effectiveness, focusing only on the \textit{collaborative signals} from behaviors does not fully grasp…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mingyue Cheng , Hao Zhang , Qi Liu , Fajie Yuan , Zhi Li , Zhenya Huang , Enhong Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Li

Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next item for recommendation based on previously recorded sessions of user interaction. The majority of existing approaches to SR focus on modeling the transition patterns of items. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiahao Yuan , Wendi Ji , Dell Zhang , Jinwei Pan , Xiaoling Wang

Recommender systems are designed to help users in situations of information overload. In recent years, we observed increased interest in session-based recommendation scenarios, where the problem is to make item suggestions to users based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Sara Latifi , Noemi Mauro , Dietmar Jannach

Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS) have become essential in many real-world applications. However, existing SRS methods often rely on collaborative filtering signals and fail to capture real-time user preferences, while Conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifan Wang , Shen Gao , Jiabao Fang , Rui Yan , Billy Chiu , Shuo Shang

Most session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) focus on extracting information from the observed items in the current session of a user to predict a next item, ignoring the causes outside the session (called outer-session causes, OSCs) that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wenzhuo Song , Shoujin Wang , Yan Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Xueyan Liu , Minghao Yin

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) aim to predict the next item that users will consume, by modeling the user interests within their item sequences. While most existing SRSs focus on a single type of user behavior, only a few pay…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Junsu Cho , Dongmin Hyun , Dong won Lim , Hyeon jae Cheon , Hyoung-iel Park , Hwanjo Yu

Session-Based Recommenders (SBRs) aim to predict users' next preferences regard to their previous interactions in sessions while there is no historical information about them. Modern SBRs utilize deep neural networks to map users' current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Reza Yeganegi , Saman Haratizadeh

Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation models are difficult to answer two important questions well due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Chongming Gao , Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Maarten de Rijke , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have garnered attention as a novel approach to delivering personalized recommendations through multi-turn dialogues. This review developed a taxonomy framework to systematically categorize relevant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Haoran Zhang , Xin Zhao , Jinze Chen , Junpeng Guo

Acquiring valuable data from the rapidly expanding information on the internet has become a significant concern, and recommender systems have emerged as a widely used and effective tool for helping users discover items of interest. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Steven Hoi , Edith Ngai

The recommender system (RS) has been an integral toolkit of online services. They are equipped with various deep learning techniques to model user preference based on identifier and attribute information. With the emergence of multimedia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qidong Liu , Jiaxi Hu , Yutian Xiao , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Wanyu Wang , Qing Li , Jiliang Tang

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) shifts the modeling of user preferences from flat to stereoscopic by integrating and learning interaction information from multiple domains at different granularities (ranging from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Shu Chen , Zitao Xu , Weike Pan , Qiang Yang , Zhong Ming

Strategic recommendations (SR) refer to the problem where an intelligent agent observes the sequential behaviors and activities of users and decides when and how to interact with them to optimize some long-term objectives, both for the user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Georgios Theocharous , Yash Chandak , Philip S. Thomas , Frits de Nijs

Recommender systems (RSs) have become an inseparable part of our everyday lives. They help us find our favorite items to purchase, our friends on social networks, and our favorite movies to watch. Traditionally, the recommendation problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 M. Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

The essence of sequential recommender systems (RecSys) lies in understanding how users make decisions. Most existing approaches frame the task as sequential prediction based on users' historical purchase records. While effective in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xiaoyu Liu , Jiaxin Yuan , Yuhang Zhou , Jingling Li , Furong Huang , Wei Ai

Much of the complexity of Recommender Systems (RSs) comes from the fact that they are used as part of more complex applications and affect user experience through a varied range of user interfaces. However, research focused almost…

While recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of research papers on recommender system (RS), most of the papers focus on inventing machine learning models to better fit user behavior data. However, user behavior data is observational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jiawei Chen , Hande Dong , Xiang Wang , Fuli Feng , Meng Wang , Xiangnan He

Recommendation systems focus on helping users find items of interest in the situations of information overload, where users' preferences are typically estimated by the past observed behaviors. In contrast, conversational recommendation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ting-Chun Wang , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) have gained increasing popularity due to their remarkable proficiency in capturing dynamic user preferences. In the current setup of SRS, a common configuration is to uniformly consider each historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hao Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Zhiding Liu , Junzhe Jiang

Recommender systems help users find relevant items of interest, for example on e-commerce or media streaming sites. Most academic research is concerned with approaches that personalize the recommendations according to long-term user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Malte Ludewig , Dietmar Jannach