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Deep learning-based recommender systems have achieved remarkable success in recent years. However, these methods usually heavily rely on labeled data (i.e., user-item interactions), suffering from problems such as data sparsity and…

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Recommender systems are widely deployed in various web environments, and self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently attracted significant attention in this field. Contrastive learning (CL) stands out as a major SSL paradigm due to its…

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Contrastive learning is among the most successful methods for visual representation learning, and its performance can be further improved by jointly performing clustering on the learned representations. However, existing methods for joint…

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Sequential recommendation has become increasingly prominent in both academia and industry, particularly in e-commerce. The primary goal is to extract user preferences from historical interaction sequences and predict items a user is likely…

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Sequential recommendation aims at understanding user preference by capturing successive behavior correlations, which are usually represented as the item purchasing sequences based on their past interactions. Existing efforts generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yifang Qin , Wei Ju , Hongjun Wu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

A well-informed recommendation framework could not only help users identify their interested items, but also benefit the revenue of various online platforms (e.g., e-commerce, social media). Traditional recommendation models usually assume…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Wei Wei , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Yong Xu , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

The success of Transformer-based models has encouraged many researchers to learn CAD models using sequence-based approaches. However, learning CAD models is still a challenge, because they can be represented as complex shapes with long…

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In order to develop effective sequential recommenders, a series of sequence representation learning (SRL) methods are proposed to model historical user behaviors. Most existing SRL methods rely on explicit item IDs for developing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yupeng Hou , Shanlei Mu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Ji-Rong Wen

Recommender systems (RecSys) play a vital role in online platforms, offering users personalized suggestions amidst vast information. Graph contrastive learning aims to learn from high-order collaborative filtering signals with unsupervised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Weizhi Zhang , Liangwei Yang , Zihe Song , Henry Peng Zou , Ke Xu , Yuanjie Zhu , Philip S. Yu

Recently, contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a successful method for unsupervised graph representation learning. Most graph CL methods first perform stochastic augmentation on the input graph to obtain two graph views and maximize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

User review data is helpful in alleviating the data sparsity problem in many recommender systems. In review-based recommendation methods, review data is considered as auxiliary information that can improve the quality of learned user/item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yuyang Ren , Haonan Zhang , Qi Li , Luoyi Fu , Jiaxin Ding , Xinde Cao , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Recommender systems (RecSys) are essential for online platforms, providing personalized suggestions to users within a vast sea of information. Self-supervised graph learning seeks to harness high-order collaborative filtering signals…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Weizhi Zhang , Liangwei Yang , Zihe Song , Henrry Peng Zou , Ke Xu , Yuanjie Zhu , Philip S. Yu

Sequential recommendation models aim to learn from users evolving preferences. However, current state-of-the-art models suffer from an inherent popularity bias. This study developed a novel framework, BiCoRec, that adaptively accommodates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mufhumudzi Muthivhi , Terence L van Zyl , Hairong Wang

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

Session-based recommendation, which aims to predict the next item of users' interest as per an existing sequence interaction of items, has attracted growing applications of Contrastive Learning (CL) with improved user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zhengxiang Shi , Xi Wang , Aldo Lipani

Sequential recommendation seeks to model the evolution of user interests by capturing temporal user intent and item-level transition patterns. Transformer-based recommenders demonstrate a strong capacity for learning long-range and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Sijia Li , Min Gao , Zongwei Wang , Zhiyi Liu , Xin Xia , Yi Zhang

Multimodal recommendation systems integrate diverse multimodal information into the feature representations of both items and users, thereby enabling a more comprehensive modeling of user preferences. However, existing methods are hindered…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Qiya Song , Jiajun Hu , Lin Xiao , Bin Sun , Xieping Gao , Shutao Li

The successful integration of large language models (LLMs) into recommendation systems has proven to be a major breakthrough in recent studies, paving the way for more generic and transferable recommendations. However, LLMs struggle to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Junyan Qiu , Haitao Wang , Zhaolin Hong , Yiping Yang , Qiang Liu , Xingxing Wang

Attention-based sequential recommendation methods have shown promise in accurately capturing users' evolving interests from their past interactions. Recent research has also explored the integration of reinforcement learning (RL) into these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Melissa Mozifian , Tristan Sylvain , Dave Evans , Lili Meng

Heterogeneous sequential recommendation (HSR) aims to learn dynamic behavior dependencies from the diverse behaviors of user-item interactions to facilitate precise sequential recommendation. Despite many efforts yielding promising…

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