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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a well-suited approach to financial decision-making, where an agent makes decisions based on its trading strategy developed from market observations. Existing DRL intraday trading strategies mainly use…

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This paper presents a novel approach to predicting buying intent and product demand in e-commerce settings, leveraging a Deep Q-Network (DQN) inspired architecture. In the rapidly evolving landscape of online retail, accurate prediction of…

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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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jyoti Narwariya , Priyanka Gupta , Muskan Gupta , Jyotsana Khatri , Lovekesh Vig

Session-based recommendation (SR) has become an important and popular component of various e-commerce platforms, which aims to predict the next interacted item based on a given session. Most of existing SR models only focus on exploiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Wenjing Meng , Deqing Yang , Yanghua Xiao

Recommender systems have been actively and extensively studied over past decades. In the meanwhile, the boom of Big Data is driving fundamental changes in the development of recommender systems. In this paper, we propose a dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao

Recommender systems aim to provide personalized item recommendations by capturing user behaviors derived from their interaction history. Considering that user interactions naturally occur sequentially based on users' intents in mind, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijin Choi , Chiehyeon Lim

Understanding the customers' high level shopping intent, such as their desire to go camping or hold a birthday party, is critically important for an E-commerce platform; it can help boost the quality of shopping experience by enabling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Xin Shen , Jiaying Shi , Sungro Yoon , Jon Katzur , Hanbo Wang , Jim Chan , Jin Li

Interactive recommendation aims to learn from dynamic interactions between items and users to achieve responsiveness and accuracy. Reinforcement learning is inherently advantageous for coping with dynamic environments and thus has attracted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Xiaocong Chen , Chaoran Huang , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Wei Liu , Wenjie Zhang

Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent of the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Biswarup Bhattacharya , Iftikhar Burhanuddin , Abhilasha Sancheti , Kushal Satya

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is mainly based on anonymous user interaction sequences to recommend the items that the next user is most likely to click. Currently, the most popular and high-performing SBR methods primarily leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shuo Zhang , Xiao Li , Jiayi Wu , Fan Yang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Session-based recommendation predicts users' future interests from previous interactions in a session. Despite the memorizing of historical samples, the request of unlearning, i.e., to remove the effect of certain training samples, also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xin Xin , Liu Yang , Ziqi Zhao , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhaochun Ren

To drive purchase in online advertising, it is of the advertiser's great interest to optimize the sequential advertising strategy whose performance and interpretability are both important. The lack of interpretability in existing deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zhaoqing Peng , Junqi Jin , Lan Luo , Yaodong Yang , Rui Luo , Jun Wang , Weinan Zhang , Haiyang Xu , Miao Xu , Chuan Yu , Tiejian Luo , Han Li , Jian Xu , Kun Gai

Embodied agents, such as robots and virtual characters, must continuously select actions to execute tasks effectively, solving complex sequential decision-making problems. Given the difficulty of designing such controllers manually,…

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In online advertising, recommender systems try to propose items from a list of products to potential customers according to their interests. Such systems have been increasingly deployed in E-commerce due to the rapid growth of information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Milad Vaali Esfahaani , Yanbo Xue , Peyman Setoodeh

Music recommender systems are an integral part of our daily life. Recent research has seen a significant effort around black-box recommender based approaches such as Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). These advances have led, together with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Francesco Meggetto , Crawford Revie , John Levine , Yashar Moshfeghi

Sequential recommendation systems aim to capture users' evolving preferences from their interaction histories. Recent reasoningenhanced methods have shown promise by introducing deliberate, chain-of-thought-like processes with intermediate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yifan Shao , Peilin Zhou

Session data has been widely used for understanding user's behavior in e-commerce. Researchers are trying to leverage session data for different tasks, such as purchase intention prediction, remaining length prediction, recommendation,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zixuan Li , Lizi Liao , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Intent learning, which aims to learn users' intents for user understanding and item recommendation, has become a hot research spot in recent years. However, existing methods suffer from complex and cumbersome alternating optimization,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yue Liu , Shihao Zhu , Jun Xia , Yingwei Ma , Jian Ma , Xinwang Liu , Shengju Yu , Kejun Zhang , Wenliang Zhong

Extracting users' interests from their lifelong behavior sequence is crucial for predicting Click-Through Rate (CTR). Most current methods employ a two-stage process for efficiency: they first select historical behaviors related to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Qi Liu , Xuyang Hou , Haoran Jin , Xiaolong Chen , Jin Chen , Defu Lian , Zhe Wang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

Users' interactions with items are driven by various intents (e.g., preparing for holiday gifts, shopping for fishing equipment, etc.).However, users' underlying intents are often unobserved/latent, making it challenging to leverage such…

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