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Sequential recommendation has become increasingly essential in various online services. It aims to model the dynamic preferences of users from their historical interactions and predict their next items. The accumulated user behavior records…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Jianwei Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Xiao Huang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Xia Hu

Recency bias is a useful inductive prior for sequential modeling: it emphasizes nearby observations and can still allow longer-range dependencies. Standard Transformer attention lacks this property, relying on all-to-all interactions that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Kareem Hegazy , Michael W. Mahoney , N. Benjamin Erichson

Sequential recommenders have been widely used in industry due to their strength in modeling user preferences. While these models excel at learning a user's positive interests, less attention has been paid to learning from negative user…

The context information such as product category plays a critical role in sequential recommendation. Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in context-aware sequential recommender systems. Existing studies often treat the contexts…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ke Sun , Tieyun Qian

Recent years have witnessed success of sequential modeling, generative recommender, and large language model for recommendation. Though the scaling law has been validated for sequential models, it showed inefficiency in computational…

Sequential Recommendation characterizes the evolving patterns by modeling item sequences chronologically. The essential target of it is to capture the item transition correlations. The recent developments of transformer inspire the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhiwei Liu , Ziwei Fan , Yu Wang , Philip S. Yu

In real-world applications, users always interact with items in multiple aspects, such as through implicit binary feedback (e.g., clicks, dislikes, long views) and explicit feedback (e.g., comments, reviews). Modern recommendation systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Shuo Yang , Jiangxia Cao , Haipeng Li , Yuqi Mao , Shuchao Pang

Writing review for a purchased item is a unique channel to express a user's opinion in E-Commerce. Recently, many deep learning based solutions have been proposed by exploiting user reviews for rating prediction. In contrast, there has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Chenliang Li , Xichuan Niu , Xiangyang Luo , Zhenzhong Chen , Cong Quan

Recommender systems objectives can be broadly characterized as modeling user preferences over short-or long-term time horizon. A large body of previous research studied long-term recommendation through dimensionality reduction techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Kiewan Villatel , Elena Smirnova , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

Most sequential recommendation models capture the features of consecutive items in a user-item interaction history. Though effective, their representation expressiveness is still hindered by the sparse learning signals. As a result, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xu Yuan , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Bo Long

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

Sequential recommendation aims to recommend the next item of users' interest based on their historical interactions. Recently, the self-attention mechanism has been adapted for sequential recommendation, and demonstrated state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Bo Peng , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

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 modelling entails making sense of sequential data, which naturally occurs in a wide array of domains. One example is systems that interact with users, log user actions and behaviour, and make recommendations of items of potential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Christian Hansen

In this paper, we propose a novel sequence-aware recommendation model. Our model utilizes self-attention mechanism to infer the item-item relationship from user's historical interactions. With self-attention, it is able to estimate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Shuai Zhang , Yi Tay , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun

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

Modeling time-evolving preferences of users with their sequential item interactions, has attracted increasing attention in many online applications. Hence, sequential recommender systems have been developed to learn the dynamic user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Jian Pei

Modern music streaming services are heavily based on recommendation engines to serve content to users. Sequential recommendation -- continuously providing new items within a single session in a contextually coherent manner -- has been an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Pavan Seshadri , Shahrzad Shashaani , Peter Knees

Sequential recommendation models the dynamics of a user's previous behaviors in order to forecast the next item, and has drawn a lot of attention. Transformer-based approaches, which embed items as vectors and use dot-product self-attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Alice Wang , Zahra Nazari , Lei Zheng , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu