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Traditional recommender systems primarily rely on a single type of user-item interaction, such as item purchases or ratings, to predict user preferences. However, in real-world scenarios, users engage in a variety of behaviors, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kyungho Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Geon Lee , Jinhong Jung , Kijung Shin

Sequential recommendation based on multi-interest framework models the user's recent interaction sequence into multiple different interest vectors, since a single low-dimensional vector cannot fully represent the diversity of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Jie Zhang , Ke-Jia Chen , Jingqiang Chen

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

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

Industry-scale recommendation systems have become a cornerstone of the e-commerce shopping experience. For Etsy, an online marketplace with over 50 million handmade and vintage items, users come to rely on personalized recommendations to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Xiaoting Zhao , Raphael Louca , Diane Hu , Liangjie Hong

Current recommender systems largely focus on static, unstructured content. In many scenarios, we would like to recommend content that has structure, such as a trajectory of points-of-interests in a city, or a playlist of songs. Dubbed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Dawei Chen , Lexing Xie , Aditya Krishna Menon , Cheng Soon Ong

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

Sequential recommendation aims to capture user preferences by modeling sequential patterns in user-item interactions. However, these models are often influenced by noise such as accidental interactions, leading to suboptimal performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tongzhou Wu , Yuhao Wang , Maolin Wang , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao

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

Session-based recommendation (SR) aims to dynamically recommend items to a user based on a sequence of the most recent user-item interactions. Most existing studies on SR adopt advanced deep learning methods. However, the majority only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Huizi Wu , Cong Geng , Hui Fang

A fundamental challenge for sequential recommenders is to capture the sequential patterns of users toward modeling how users transit among items. In many practical scenarios, however, there are a great number of cold-start users with only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jianling Wang , Kaize Ding , James Caverlee

Sequential recommendations (SR) predict users' future interactions based on their historical behavior. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought powerful generative and reasoning capabilities, significantly enhancing SR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qiyong Zhong , Jiajie Su , Ming Yang , Yunshan Ma , Xiaolin Zheng , Chaochao Chen

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

There is much empirical evidence that item-item collaborative filtering works well in practice. Motivated to understand this, we provide a framework to design and analyze various recommendation algorithms. The setup amounts to online binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Guy Bresler , Devavrat Shah , Luis F. Voloch

User behavior modeling lies at the heart of personalized applications like recommender systems. With LLM-based agents, user preference representation has evolved from latent embeddings to semantic memory. While existing memory mechanisms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuxin Liao , Le Wu , Min Hou , Yu Wang , Han Wu , Meng Wang

Sequential recommendation systems alleviate the problem of information overload, and have attracted increasing attention in the literature. Most prior works usually obtain an overall representation based on the user's behavior sequence,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Gaode Chen , Xinghua Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Cong Xue , Ji Xiang

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

Sequential recommendation involves automatically recommending the next item to users based on their historical item sequence. While most prior research employs RNN or transformer methods to glean information from the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiaofan Zhou

Capturing the dynamics in user preference is crucial to better predict user future behaviors because user preferences often drift over time. Many existing recommendation algorithms -- including both shallow and deep ones -- often model such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chao Chen , Dongsheng Li , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item a user is likely to prefer based on their sequential interaction history. Recently, text-based sequential recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that uses pre-trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hyunsoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Jongwuk Lee