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Sequential recommendation (SR) systems excel at capturing users' dynamic preferences by leveraging their interaction histories. Most existing SR systems assign a single embedding vector to each item to represent its features, and various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long

In this paper, we propose a novel ranking framework for collaborative filtering with the overall aim of learning user preferences over items by minimizing a pairwise ranking loss. We show the minimization problem involves dependent random…

Modeling long histories plays a pivotal role in enhancing recommendation systems, allowing to capture user's evolving preferences, resulting in more precise and personalized recommendations. In this study we tackle the challenges of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Sumanth Doddapaneni , Krishna Sayana , Ambarish Jash , Sukhdeep Sodhi , Dima Kuzmin

In multi-behavior recommendation scenarios, analyzing users' diverse behaviors, such as click, purchase, and rating, enables a more comprehensive understanding of their interests, facilitating personalized and accurate recommendations. A…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mingshi Yan , Zhiyong Cheng , Fan Liu , Yingda Lyu , Yahong Han

Modeling holistic user interests is important for improving recommendation systems but is challenged by high computational cost and difficulty in handling diverse information with full behavior context. Existing search-based methods might…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yong Bai , Rui Xiang , Kaiyuan Li , Yongxiang Tang , Yanhua Cheng , Xialong Liu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Sequential recommendation, a critical task in recommendation systems, predicts the next user action based on the understanding of the user's historical behaviors. Conventional studies mainly focus on cross-behavior modeling with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhen Gong , Zhifang Fan , Hui Lu , Qiwei Chen , Chenbin Zhang , Lin Guan , Yuchao Zheng , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Over the past 10 years, many recommendation techniques have been based on embedding users and items in latent vector spaces, where the inner product of a (user,item) pair of vectors represents the predicted affinity of the user to the item.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Sonya Liberman , Shaked Bar , Raphael Vannerom , Danny Rosenstein , Ronny Lempel

Text-to-image generation has advanced rapidly, yet it still struggles to capture the nuanced user preferences. Existing approaches typically rely on multimodal large language models to infer user preferences, but the derived prompts or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zihao Wang , Yuxiang Wei , Xinpeng Zhou , Tianyu Zhang , Tao Liang , Yalong Bai , Hongzhi Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for sequential recommendation. However, current LLM-based approaches face critical limitations in modeling users' long-term and diverse interests. First, due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Jingyi Zhou , Cheng Chen , Kai Zuo , Manjie Xu , Zhendong Fu , Yibo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Collaborative Metric Learning (CML) has recently emerged as a popular method in recommendation systems (RS), closing the gap between metric learning and Collaborative Filtering. Following the convention of RS, existing methods exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Yuan He , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Many decision-making problems feature multiple objectives. In such problems, it is not always possible to know the preferences of a decision-maker for different objectives. However, it is often possible to observe the behavior of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Junlin Lu , Patrick Mannion , Karl Mason

Re-ranking is a process of rearranging ranking list to more effectively meet user demands by accounting for the interrelationships between items. Existing methods predominantly enhance the precision of search results, often at the expense…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Huimu Wang , Mingming Li , Dadong Miao , Songlin Wang , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu , Jinghe Hu

In the one-class recommendation problem, it's required to make recommendations basing on users' implicit feedback, which is inferred from their action and inaction. Existing works obtain representations of users and items by encoding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chu-Jen Shao , Hao-Ming Fu , Pu-Jen Cheng

Many existing industrial recommender systems are sensitive to the patterns of user-item engagement. Light users, who interact less frequently, correspond to a data sparsity problem, making it difficult for the system to accurately learn and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hanjia Lyu , Hanqing Zeng , Yinglong Xia , Ren Chen , Jiebo Luo

Embedding models, which learn latent representations of users and items based on user-item interaction patterns, are a key component of recommendation systems. In many applications, contextual constraints need to be applied to refine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Syrine Krichene , Mike Gartrell , Clement Calauzenes

Recently, click-through rate (CTR) prediction models have evolved from shallow methods to deep neural networks. Most deep CTR models follow an Embedding\&MLP paradigm, that is, first mapping discrete id features, e.g. user visited items,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-26 Guorui Zhou , Kailun Wu , Weijie Bian , Zhao Yang , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Recent research has shown that the performance of search personalization depends on the richness of user profiles which normally represent the user's topical interests. In this paper, we propose a new embedding approach to learning user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Thanh Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen , Mark Johnson , Dawei Song , Alistair Willis

Personalized Point of Interest recommendation is very helpful for satisfying users' needs at new places. In this article, we propose a tag embedding based method for Personalized Recommendation of Point Of Interest. We model the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Suraj Agrawal , Dwaipayan Roy , Mandar Mitra

In the era of information overload, the value of recommender systems has been profoundly recognized in academia and industry alike. Multi-interest sequential recommendation, in particular, is a subfield that has been receiving increasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Tianyu Xiong , Xiaohan Yu

Traditional recommender systems primarily rely on a single type of user-item interaction, such as item purchases or ratings, to predict user preferences. However, in real-world scenarios, users engage in a variety of behaviors, such as…

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