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We apply recurrent neural networks (RNN) on a new domain, namely recommender systems. Real-life recommender systems often face the problem of having to base recommendations only on short session-based data (e.g. a small sportsware website)…

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In recent years, the emerging topics of recommender systems that take advantage of natural language processing techniques have attracted much attention, and one of their applications is the Conversational Recommender System (CRS). Unlike…

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is a challenging task, which aims to predict users' future interests based on anonymous behavior sequences. Existing methods leverage powerful representation learning approaches to encode sessions into a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Ziyang Wang , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Xiao-Li Li , Shanshan Feng

Recommender Systems (RS) play an integral role in enhancing user experiences by providing personalized item suggestions. This survey reviews the progress in RS inclusively from 2017 to 2024, effectively connecting theoretical advances with…

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Sub-sequence splitting (SSS) has been demonstrated as an effective approach to mitigate data sparsity in sequential recommendation (SR) by splitting a raw user interaction sequence into multiple sub-sequences. Previous studies have…

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Session-based recommendation (SR) models aim to recommend items to anonymous users based on their behavior during the current session. While various SR models in the literature utilize item sequences to predict the next item, they often…

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In the year 2019, the Recommender Systems Challenge deals with a real-world task from the area of e-tourism for the first time, namely the recommendation of hotels in booking sessions. In this context, this article aims at identifying and…

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) are a popular type of recommender system that learns from a user's history to predict the next item they are likely to interact with. However, user interactions can be affected by noise stemming from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Andrea Bacciu , Federico Siciliano , Nicola Tonellotto , Fabrizio Silvestri

Recommender systems (RSs) are software tools and algorithms developed to alleviate the problem of information overload, which makes it difficult for a user to make right decisions. Two main paradigms toward the recommendation problem are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

Given the sheer volume of contemporary e-commerce applications, recommender systems (RSs) have gained significant attention in both academia and industry. However, traditional cloud-based RSs face inevitable challenges, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hongzhi Yin , Tong Chen , Liang Qu , Bin Cui

Session-based recommendation (SR) predicts the next items from a sequence of previous items consumed by an anonymous user. Most existing SR models focus only on modeling intra-session characteristics but pay less attention to inter-session…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Minjin Choi , Jinhong Kim , Joonsek Lee , Hyunjung Shim , Jongwuk Lee

While recommender systems (RSs) traditionally rely on extensive individual user data, regulatory and technological shifts necessitate reliance on aggregated user information. This shift significantly impacts the recommendation process,…

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Session-based recommendation (SBR) is a task that aims to predict items based on anonymous sequences of user behaviors in a session. While there are methods that leverage rich context information in sessions for SBR, most of them have the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zhihui Zhang , JianXiang Yu , Xiang Li

The prevalence of online content has led to the widespread adoption of recommendation systems (RSs), which serve diverse purposes such as news, advertisements, and e-commerce recommendations. Despite their significance, data scarcity issues…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zefeng Chen , Wensheng Gan , Jiayang Wu , Kaixia Hu , Hong Lin

Recommendation systems usually involve exploiting the relations among known features and content that describe items (content-based filtering) or the overlap of similar users who interacted with or rated the target item (collaborative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Shuo Yang , Mohammed Korayem , Khalifeh AlJadda , Trey Grainger , Sriraam Natarajan

Sequential recommender systems (SRSs) aim to predict the subsequent items which may interest users via comprehensively modeling users' complex preference embedded in the sequence of user-item interactions. However, most of existing SRSs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chengkai Huang , Shoujin Wang , Xianzhi Wang , Lina Yao

Modern recommender systems operate in uniquely dynamic settings: user interests, item pools, and popularity trends shift continuously, and models must adapt in real time without forgetting past preferences. While existing tutorials on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hyunsik Yoo , SeongKu Kang , Hanghang Tong

Recommender Systems (RS) aim to provide personalized suggestions of items for users against consumer over-choice. Although extensive research has been conducted to address different aspects and challenges of RS, there still exists a gap…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Peiyan Zhang , Sunghun Kim

Sequential recommendation is a key area in the field of recommendation systems aiming to model user interest based on historical interaction sequences with irregular intervals. While previous recurrent neural network-based and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Wei Xiao , Huiying Wang , Qifeng Zhou , Qing Wang

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of the emerging topic of Graph Learning based Recommender Systems (GLRS). GLRS employ advanced graph learning approaches to model users' preferences and intentions as well as items'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shoujin Wang , Liang Hu , Yan Wang , Xiangnan He , Quan Z. Sheng , Mehmet A. Orgun , Longbing Cao , Francesco Ricci , Philip S. Yu