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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…

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The widespread usage of computer-based assessments and individualized learning platforms has resulted in an increased demand for the rapid production of high-quality items. Automated item generation (AIG), the process of using item models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ummugul Bezirhan , Matthias von Davier

Sequential dense retrieval models utilize advanced sequence learning techniques to compute item and user representations, which are then used to rank relevant items for a user through inner product computation between the user and all item…

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven their adoption in recommender systems through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks. However, existing RAG approaches predominantly rely on flat, similarity-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Vahid Azizi , Fatemeh Koochaki

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently introduced in the domain of session-based next item recommendation. An ordered collection of past items the user has interacted with in a session (or sequence) are embedded into a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Fajie Yuan , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M Jose , Xiangnan He

Generative recommendation models often struggle with two key challenges: (1) the superficial integration of collaborative signals, and (2) the decoupled fusion of multimodal features. These limitations hinder the creation of a truly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yuzhen Lin , Hongyi Chen , Xuanjing Chen , Shaowen Wang , Ivonne Xu , Dongming Jiang

Recommendation systems help users find matched items based on their previous behaviors. Personalized recommendation becomes challenging in the absence of historical user-item interactions, a practical problem for startups known as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuansheng Wu , Huachi Zhou , Yucheng Shi , Wenlin Yao , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu

Recommender systems are indispensable in the realm of online applications, and sequential recommendation has enjoyed considerable prevalence due to its capacity to encapsulate the dynamic shifts in user interests. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junzhe Jiang , Shang Qu , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Kai Zhang , Rui Li , Jiatong Li , Min Gao

Generative recommendation is emerging as a transformative paradigm by directly generating recommended items, rather than relying on matching. Building such a system typically involves two key components: (1) optimizing the tokenizer to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yimeng Bai , Chang Liu , Yang Zhang , Dingxian Wang , Frank Yang , Andrew Rabinovich , Wenge Rong , Fuli Feng

Generative Recommendation (GenRec) models reformulate recommendation as a sequence generation task, representing items as discrete Semantic IDs used symmetrically as both inputs and prediction targets. We identify a critical dual-stage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Bin Huang , Xin Wang , Junwei Pan , Yongqi Zhou , Yifeng Zhou , Zhixiang Feng , Shudong Huang , Haijie Gu , Wenwu Zhu

Online grocery shopping presents unique challenges for sequential recommendations due to repetitive purchase patterns and complex item relationships within the baskets. Unlike traditional e-commerce, grocery recommendations must capture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Soroush Mokhtari , Muhammad Tayyab Asif , Sergiy Zubatiy

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has brought revolutionary innovations in various fields, including medicine. However, it also exhibits limitations. In response, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) provides a potential solution,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Rui Yang , Yilin Ning , Emilia Keppo , Mingxuan Liu , Chuan Hong , Danielle S Bitterman , Jasmine Chiat Ling Ong , Daniel Shu Wei Ting , Nan Liu

We present a collection recommender system that can automatically create and recommend collections of items at a user level. Unlike regular recommender systems, which output top-N relevant items, a collection recommender system outputs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Sanidhya Singal , Piyush Singh , Manjeet Dahiya

With the recent increase in data online, discovering meaningful opportunities can be time-consuming and complicated for many individuals. To overcome this data overload challenge, we present a novel text-content-based recommender system as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Kazem Qazanfari , Abdou Youssef , Kai Keane , Joseph Nelson

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in recommender systems, either improving existing recommendation models or serving as the backbone. However, there exists a large semantic gap between LLMs and recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Bowen Zheng , Yupeng Hou , Hongyu Lu , Yu Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ming Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Deep reinforcement learning enables an agent to capture user's interest through interactions with the environment dynamically. It has attracted great interest in the recommendation research. Deep reinforcement learning uses a reward…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Xianzhi Wang , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an advanced technique designed to address the challenges of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC). By integrating context retrieval into content generation, RAG provides reliable and…

Federated Recommendation (FR) emerges as a novel paradigm that enables privacy-preserving recommendations. However, traditional FR systems usually represent users/items with discrete identities (IDs), suffering from performance degradation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Huimin Zeng , Zhenrui Yue , Qian Jiang , Dong Wang