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The long-tailed problem is a long-standing challenge in Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) in which the problem exists in terms of both users and items. While many existing studies address the long-tailed problem in SRS, they only focus…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Kibum Kim , Dongmin Hyun , Sukwon Yun , Chanyoung Park

Session-based recommendation aims at predicting the next item given a sequence of previous items consumed in the session, e.g., on e-commerce or multimedia streaming services. Specifically, session data exhibits some unique characteristics,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Minjin Choi , jinhong Kim , Joonseok Lee , Hyunjung Shim , Jongwuk Lee

With the increasing development of e-commerce and online services, personalized recommendation systems have become crucial for enhancing user satisfaction and driving business revenue. Traditional sequential recommendation methods that rely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Kunzhe Song , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yaming Yang

Capturing users' precise preferences is of great importance in various recommender systems (eg., e-commerce platforms), which is the basis of how to present personalized interesting product lists to individual users. In spite of significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Peng Dai , Bo Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Sequential recommendation systems model dynamic preferences of users based on their historical interactions with platforms. Despite recent progress, modeling short-term and long-term behavior of users in such systems is nontrivial and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Mehrnaz Amjadi , Seyed Danial Mohseni Taheri , Theja Tulabandhula

We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

The changing preferences of users towards items trigger the emergence of session-based recommender systems (SBRSs), which aim to model the dynamic preferences of users for next-item recommendations. However, most of the existing studies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Wenzhuo Song , Shoujin Wang , Yan Wang , Shengsheng Wang

Self-attention (SA) mechanisms have been widely used in developing sequential recommendation (SR) methods, and demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, in this paper, we show that self-attentive SR methods substantially suffer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Bo Peng , Ziqi Chen , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

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

Modeling the complex interactions between users and items as well as amongst items themselves is at the core of designing successful recommender systems. One classical setting is predicting users' personalized sequential behavior (or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Ruining He , Wang-Cheng Kang , Julian McAuley

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

This paper proposes an attention module augmented relational network called SARN(Sequential Attention Relational Network) that can carry out relational reasoning by extracting reference objects and making efficient pairing between objects.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Jinwon An , Sungwon Lyu , Sungzoon Cho

Sequential recommendations aim to capture users' preferences from their historical interactions so as to predict the next item that they will interact with. Sequential recommendation methods usually assume that all items in a user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yujie Lin , Chenyang Wang , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Xin Xin , Qiang Yan , Maarten de Rijke , Xiuzhen Cheng , Pengjie Ren

Sequential Recommendation (SR) task involves predicting the next item a user is likely to interact with, given their past interactions. The SR models examine the sequence of a user's actions to discern more complex behavioral patterns and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wujiang Xu , Qitian Wu , Zujie Liang , Jiaojiao Han , Xuying Ning , Yunxiao Shi , Wenfang Lin , Yongfeng Zhang

Sequential recommendation (SR) models based on Transformers have achieved remarkable successes. The self-attention mechanism of Transformers for computer vision and natural language processing suffers from the oversmoothing problem, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yehjin Shin , Jeongwhan Choi , Hyowon Wi , Noseong Park

Transformer-based sequential recommendation (TSR) models have shown superior performance in recommendation systems, where the quality of item representations plays a crucial role. Classical representation methods integrate item features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hao Deng , Haibo Xing , Kanefumi Matsuyama , Yulei Huang , Jinxin Hu , Hong Wen , Jia Xu , Zulong Chen , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Learning the user-item relevance hidden in implicit feedback data plays an important role in modern recommender systems. Neural sequential recommendation models, which formulates learning the user-item relevance as a sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jingwei Zhuo , Bin Liu , Xiang Li , Han Zhu , Xiaoqiang Zhu

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in recommendation systems. However, the effective application of MLLMs to multimodal sequential recommendation remains unexplored: A)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Haoyu Wang , Yitong Wang , Jining Wang

Sequential recommendation (SR) models the dynamic user preferences and generates the next-item prediction as the affinity between the sequence and items, in a joint latent space with low dimensions (i.e., the sequence and item embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

The chronological order of user-item interactions can reveal time-evolving and sequential user behaviors in many recommender systems. The items that users will interact with may depend on the items accessed in the past. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Chen Ma , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Jianing Sun , Xue Liu , Mark Coates