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Modeling user-item interaction patterns is an important task for personalized recommendations. Many recommender systems are based on the assumption that there exists a linear relationship between users and items while neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Sen Wang , Guodong Long , Manqing Dong

As a paradigm that delves into the deep seated drivers of user behavior, motivation-based recommendation systems have emerged as a prominent research direction in the field of personalized information retrieval. Unlike traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yicheng Di

Multi-objective re-ranking has become a critical component of modern multi-stage recommender systems, as it tasked to balance multiple conflicting objectives such as accuracy, diversity, and fairness. Existing multi-objective re-ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wei Zhou , Wuyang Li , Junkai Ji , Xueliang Li , Wenjing Hong , Zexuan Zhu , Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He

Recommendation systems effectively guide users in locating their desired information within extensive content repositories. Generally, a recommendation model is optimized to enhance accuracy metrics from a user utility standpoint, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xu Huang , Jianxun Lian , Hao Wang , Defu Lian , Xing Xie

With the development of multimedia systems, multimodal recommendations are playing an essential role, as they can leverage rich contexts beyond interactions. Existing methods mainly regard multimodal information as an auxiliary, using them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yifan Liu , Kangning Zhang , Xiangyuan Ren , Yanhua Huang , Jiarui Jin , Yingjie Qin , Ruilong Su , Ruiwen Xu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

There is a rapidly-growing research interest in modeling user preferences via pre-training multi-domain interactions for recommender systems. However, Existing pre-trained multi-domain recommendations mostly select the item texts to be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Wenqi Sun , Ruobing Xie , Shuqing Bian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jie Zhou

Modern recommender systems must adapt to dynamic, need-specific objectives for diverse recommendation scenarios, yet most traditional recommenders are optimized for a single static target and struggle to reconfigure behavior on demand.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yijun Pan , Weikang Qiu , Qiyao Ma , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Rex Ying

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for recommendation thanks to their advanced textual understanding ability and context-awareness. Despite the current practice of training and evaluating LLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sein Kim , Hongseok Kang , Kibum Kim , Jiwan Kim , Donghyun Kim , Minchul Yang , Kwangjin Oh , Julian McAuley , Chanyoung Park

Transformer-based sequential recommenders, such as SASRec or BERT4Rec, typically rely solely on learned item ID embeddings, making them vulnerable to the item cold-start problem, particularly in environments with dynamic item catalogs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jan Malte Lichtenberg , Antonio De Candia , Matteo Ruffini

Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation (SASRec) effectively captures long-term user preferences by applying attention mechanisms to historical interactions. Concurrently, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has motivated research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kechen Liu

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

The successful integration of large language models (LLMs) into recommendation systems has proven to be a major breakthrough in recent studies, paving the way for more generic and transferable recommendations. However, LLMs struggle to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Junyan Qiu , Haitao Wang , Zhaolin Hong , Yiping Yang , Qiang Liu , Xingxing Wang

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict future user-item interactions based on historical interactions. While many SR approaches concentrate on user IDs and item IDs, the human perception of the world through multi-modal signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Yuanqi He , Junchen Fu , Xiangyan Liu , Qi Guo

Sequential recommenders are crucial to the success of online applications, \eg e-commerce, video streaming, and social media. While model architectures continue to improve, for every new application domain, we still have to train a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Junting Wang , Praneet Rathi , Hari Sundaram

Sequential recommendation systems aim to provide personalized recommendations by analyzing dynamic preferences and dependencies within user behavior sequences. Recently, Transformer models can effectively capture user preferences. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shun Zhang , Runsen Zhang , Zhirong Yang

In order to develop effective sequential recommenders, a series of sequence representation learning (SRL) methods are proposed to model historical user behaviors. Most existing SRL methods rely on explicit item IDs for developing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yupeng Hou , Shanlei Mu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Ji-Rong Wen

Large language models (LLM) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for a variety of natural language processing tasks, bringing a new surge of combining LLM with recommendation systems, termed as LLM-based RS. Current approaches generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xiaohan Yu , Li Zhang , Xin Zhao , Yue Wang , Zhongrui Ma

The success of recommender systems in modern online platforms is inseparable from the accurate capture of users' personal tastes. In everyday life, large amounts of user feedback data are created along with user-item online interactions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiao Zhou , Danyang Liu , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie

The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have generated considerable interest in their utilization for sequential recommendation tasks. While collaborative signals from similar users are central to recommendation modeling,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tong Zhang

In a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), predictive models of student behavior can support multiple aspects of learning, including instructor feedback and timely intervention. Ongoing courses, when the student outcomes are yet unknown, must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Mucong Ding , Yanbang Wang , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly