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Social relations have been widely incorporated into recommender systems to alleviate data sparsity problem. However, raw social relations don't always benefit recommendation due to their inferior quality and insufficient quantity,…

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Forecasting multi-step user behavior trajectories requires reasoning over structured preferences across future actions, a challenge overlooked by traditional sequential recommendation. This problem is critical for applications such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hongtao Huang , Chengkai Huang , Junda Wu , Tong Yu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems (RS). It predicts a personalized click probability for each user-item pair. Recently, researchers have found that the performance of CTR model can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiwei Chen , Changhua Pei , Shanshan Lv , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Multi-step passenger demand forecasting is a crucial task in on-demand vehicle sharing services. However, predicting passenger demand over multiple time horizons is generally challenging due to the nonlinear and dynamic spatial-temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Lei Bai , Lina Yao , Salil. S Kanhere , Xianzhi Wang , Quan. Z Sheng

Online communities such as Facebook and Twitter are enormously popular and have become an essential part of the daily life of many of their users. Through these platforms, users can discover and create information that others will then…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Weiping Song , Zhiping Xiao , Yifan Wang , Laurent Charlin , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns user preferences based on their historical interaction sequences and provides personalized suggestions. In real-world scenarios, most users can only interact with a handful of items, while the majority…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yizhou Dang , Zhifu Wei , Minhan Huang , Lianbo Ma , Jianzhe Zhao , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang

Recently, deep neural networks are widely applied in recommender systems for their effectiveness in capturing/modeling users' preferences. Especially, the attention mechanism in deep learning enables recommender systems to incorporate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jianqing Zhang , Dongjing Wang , Dongjin Yu

Sequential recommendation is one of the most important tasks in recommender systems, which aims to recommend the next interacted item with historical behaviors as input. Traditional sequential recommendation always mainly considers the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yunzhu Pan , Chen Gao , Jianxin Chang , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

In this paper, we study the effect of long memory in the learnability of a sequential recommender system including users' implicit feedback. We propose an online algorithm, where model parameters are updated user per user over blocks of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Marianne Clausel , Massih-Reza Amini , Yury Maximov , Nicolas Dante

One of the key challenges in Sequential Recommendation (SR) is how to extract and represent user preferences. Traditional SR methods rely on the next item as the supervision signal to guide preference extraction and representation. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Muyang Ma , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Huasheng Liang , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke

The vast majority of recommender systems model preferences as static or slowly changing due to observable user experience. However, spontaneous changes in user preferences are ubiquitous in many domains like media consumption and key…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Arun Kumar , Paul Schrater

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to model user preferences by capturing behavior patterns from their item historical interaction data. Most existing methods model user preference in the time domain, omitting the fact that users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xinyu Du , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Guanfeng Liu , Yanchi Liu , Victor S. Sheng , Xiaofang Zhou

In a practical recommender system, new interactions are continuously observed. Some interactions are expected, because they largely follow users' long-term preferences. Some other interactions are indications of recent trends in user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Yitong Ji , Aixin Sun , Jie Zhang

Recently, Pareto Set Learning (PSL) has been proposed for learning the entire Pareto set using a neural network. PSL employs preference vectors to scalarize multiple objectives, facilitating the learning of mappings from preference vectors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Rongguang Ye , Longcan Chen , Jinyuan Zhang , Hisao Ishibuchi

Last year has witnessed the considerable interest of Large Language Models (LLMs) for their potential applications in recommender systems, which may mitigate the persistent issue of data sparsity. Though large efforts have been made for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ziwei Zhao , Fake Lin , Xi Zhu , Zhi Zheng , Tong Xu , Shitian Shen , Xueying Li , Zikai Yin , Enhong Chen

Sequential recommendation requires the recommender to capture the evolving behavior characteristics from logged user behavior data for accurate recommendations. However, user behavior sequences are viewed as a script with multiple ongoing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Zhiyu Yao , Xinyang Chen , Sinan Wang , Qinyan Dai , Yumeng Li , Tanchao Zhu , Mingsheng Long

Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the growth of representation learning methods for graphs, with numerous applications across various fields, including bioinformatics, chemistry, and the social sciences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Abdulkadir Celikkanat , Nikolaos Nakis , Morten Mørup

In this paper, we propose a theoretically founded sequential strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the form of clicks. The proposed approach consists in minimizing pairwise ranking loss…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Frack Iutzeller , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

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

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to predict future interactions based on user's historical sequential interactions from multiple domains. Generally, a key challenge of CDSR is how to mine precise cross-domain user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiangxia Cao , Xin Cong , Jiawei Sheng , Tingwen Liu , Bin Wang