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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mingwei Zhang , Jiayuan Liu , Weipu Zhang , Ke Deng , Hai Dong , Ying Liu

Modern online service providers such as online shopping platforms often provide both search and recommendation (S&R) services to meet different user needs. Rarely has there been any effective means of incorporating user behavior data from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zihua Si , Zhongxiang Sun , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu , Xiaoxue Zang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Ji-Rong Wen

Sequential recommendation techniques provide users with product recommendations fitting their current preferences by handling dynamic user preferences over time. Previous studies have focused on modeling sequential dynamics without much…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Seongwon Jang , Hoyeop Lee , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

In this paper, we propose a robust sequential learning strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback mainly in the form of clicks. Our approach relies on the minimization of a pairwise ranking loss over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Alexandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' future interactions by modeling collaborative filtering (CF) signals from historical behaviors of similar users or items. Traditional sequential recommenders predominantly rely on ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yingzhi He , Xiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Cold-start problem is one of the long-standing challenges in recommender systems, focusing on accurately modeling new or interaction-limited users or items to provide better recommendations. Due to the diversification of internet platforms…

A recommender system aims to recommend items that a user is interested in among many items. The need for the recommender system has been expanded by the information explosion. Various approaches have been suggested for providing meaningful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Sungwoon Choi , Heonseok Ha , Uiwon Hwang , Chanju Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Sungroh Yoon

Large-scale industrial recommendation systems typically employ a two-stage paradigm of retrieval and ranking to handle huge amounts of information. Recent research focuses on improving the performance of retrieval model. A promising way is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Chengcheng Guo , Junda She , Kuo Cai , Shiyao Wang , Qigen Hu , Qiang Luo , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Session-based recommendation techniques aim to capture dynamic user behavior by analyzing past interactions. However, existing methods heavily rely on historical item ID sequences to extract user preferences, leading to challenges such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zhipeng Zhang , Piao Tong , Yingwei Ma , Qiao Liu , Xujiang Liu , Xu Luo

Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation (SASRec) effectively captures long-term user preferences by applying attention mechanisms to historical interactions. Concurrently, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has motivated research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kechen Liu

Recommender system has attracted lots of attentions since it helps users alleviate the information overload problem. Matrix factorization technique is one of the most widely employed collaborative filtering techniques in the research of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Yonghong Yu , Can Wang , Yang Gao

Traditional recommender systems (RS) typically use user-item rating histories as their main data source. However, deep generative models now have the capability to model and sample from complex data distributions, including user-item…

We introduce a new sequential transformer reinforcement learning architecture RLT4Rec and demonstrate that it achieves excellent performance in a range of item recommendation tasks. RLT4Rec uses a relatively simple transformer architecture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Dilina Chandika Rajapakse , Douglas Leith

Recommendation systems suffer in the strict cold-start (SCS) scenario, where the user-item interactions are entirely unavailable. The ID-based approaches completely fail to work. Cold-start recommenders, on the other hand, leverage item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yuwei Cao , Liangwei Yang , Chen Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Hao Peng , Chenyu You , Philip S. Yu

Recommendation system (RS) plays significant roles in matching users information needs for Internet applications, and it usually utilizes the vanilla neural network as the backbone to handle embedding details. Recently, the large language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Dui Wang , Xiangyu Hou , Xiaohui Yang , Bo Zhang , Renbing Chen , Daiyue Xue

Recommender systems aim to recommend new items to users by learning user and item representations. In practice, these representations are highly entangled as they consist of information about multiple factors, including user's interests,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Paras Sheth , Ruocheng Guo , Lu Cheng , Huan Liu , K. Selçuk Candan

Implicit feedback is widely explored by modern recommender systems. Since the feedback is often sparse and imbalanced, it poses great challenges to the learning of complex interactions among users and items. Metric learning has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yanchao Tan , Carl Yang , Xiangyu Wei , Yun Ma , Xiaolin Zheng

In session-based or sequential recommendation, it is important to consider a number of factors like long-term user engagement, multiple types of user-item interactions such as clicks, purchases etc. The current state-of-the-art supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xin Xin , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M. Jose

Diverse and enriched data sources are essential for commercial ads-recommendation models to accurately assess user interest both before and after engagement with content. While extended user-engagement histories can improve the prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Doris Wang , Qian Ge , Joy Mu , Srihari Reddy

Retrieval finds a small number of relevant candidates from a large corpus for information retrieval and recommendation applications. A key component of retrieval is to model (user, item) similarity, which is commonly represented as the dot…

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