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ID-based Recommender Systems (RecSys), where each item is assigned a unique identifier and subsequently converted into an embedding vector, have dominated the designing of RecSys. Though prevalent, such ID-based paradigm is not suitable for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Pengpeng Zhao , Qi Guo , Fajie Yuan , Xiaofang Zhou

Sequential recommendations have drawn significant attention in modeling the user's historical behaviors to predict the next item. With the booming development of multimodal data (e.g., image, text) on internet platforms, sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Changhong Li , Zhiqiang Guo

Sequential recommendation (SR) models often capture user preferences based on the historically interacted item IDs, which usually obtain sub-optimal performance when the interaction history is limited. Content-based sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Donglin Zhou , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

The goal of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user's potential interested items based on her/his historical interaction sequences. Most existing sequential recommenders are developed based on ID features, which, despite their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jinpeng Wang , Ziyun Zeng , Yunxiao Wang , Yuting Wang , Xingyu Lu , Tianxiang Li , Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shu-Tao Xia

Conventional multimodal recommender systems predominantly leverage Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) optimization to learn item representations by amalgamating item identity (ID) embeddings with multimodal features. Nevertheless, our…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xin Zhou , Xiaoxiong Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiqi Shen

Learning large-scale pre-trained models on broad-ranging data and then transfer to a wide range of target tasks has become the de facto paradigm in many machine learning (ML) communities. Such big models are not only strong performers in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jie Wang , Fajie Yuan , Mingyue Cheng , Joemon M. Jose , Chenyun Yu , Beibei Kong , Zhijin Wang , Bo Hu , Zang Li

Recommendation systems have become popular and effective tools to help users discover their interesting items by modeling the user preference and item property based on implicit interactions (e.g., purchasing and clicking). Humans perceive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Hongyu Zhou , Xin Zhou , Zhiwei Zeng , Lingzi Zhang , Zhiqi Shen

Modern Sequential Recommendation (SR) models commonly utilize modality features to represent items, motivated in large part by recent advancements in language and vision modeling. To do so, several works completely replace ID embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Liam Collins , Bhuvesh Kumar , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Donald Loveland , Leonardo Neves , Neil Shah

Large language models (LLM) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for a variety of natural language processing tasks, bringing a new surge of combining LLM with recommendation systems, termed as LLM-based RS. Current approaches generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xiaohan Yu , Li Zhang , Xin Zhao , Yue Wang , Zhongrui Ma

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

Current multimodal recommendation models have extensively explored the effective utilization of multimodal information; however, their reliance on ID embeddings remains a performance bottleneck. Even with the assistance of multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kangning Zhang , Jiarui Jin , Yingjie Qin , Ruilong Su , Jianghao Lin , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Bundle recommendation approaches offer users a set of related items on a particular topic. The current state-of-the-art (SOTA) method utilizes contrastive learning to learn representations at both the bundle and item levels. However, due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xiaoyu Du , Kun Qian , Yunshan Ma , Xinguang Xiang

Recommendation systems effectively guide users in locating their desired information within extensive content repositories. Generally, a recommendation model is optimized to enhance accuracy metrics from a user utility standpoint, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xu Huang , Jianxun Lian , Hao Wang , Defu Lian , Xing Xie

Multimodal recommender systems (MRS) improve recommendation performance by integrating complementary semantic information from multiple modalities. However, the assumption of complete multimodality rarely holds in practice due to missing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Huilin Chen , Miaomiao Cai , Fan Liu , Zhiyong Cheng , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict future user-item interactions based on historical interactions. While many SR approaches concentrate on user IDs and item IDs, the human perception of the world through multi-modal signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Yuanqi He , Junchen Fu , Xiangyan Liu , Qi Guo

Most existing multimodal collaborative filtering recommendation (MCFRec) methods rely heavily on ID features and multimodal content to enhance recommendation performance. However, this paper reveals that ID features are effective but have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guohao Li , Li Jing , Jia Wu , Xuefei Li , Kai Zhu , Yue He

Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a new paradigm in recommender systems. This approach relies on quantized representations to discretize item features, modeling users' historical interactions as sequences of discrete tokens.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fuwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Dongbo Xi , Jishen Yin , Huan Chen , Peng Yan , Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhao Zhang

Recently, sequential recommendation has emerged as a widely studied topic. Existing researches mainly design effective neural architectures to model user behavior sequences based on item IDs. However, this kind of approach highly relies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Shanlei Mu , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

Multi-modal recommendation systems aim to enhance performance by integrating an item's content features across various modalities with user behavior data. Effective utilization of features from different modalities requires addressing two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Hang Zhou , Yucheng Wang , Huijing Zhan

Acquiring valuable data from the rapidly expanding information on the internet has become a significant concern, and recommender systems have emerged as a widely used and effective tool for helping users discover items of interest. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Steven Hoi , Edith Ngai
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