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Sequential recommendation as an emerging topic has attracted increasing attention due to its important practical significance. Models based on deep learning and attention mechanism have achieved good performance in sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Zhe Xie , Chengxuan Liu , Yichi Zhang , Hongtao Lu , Dong Wang , Yue Ding

Latent reasoning has emerged as a promising paradigm for sequential recommendation, enabling models to capture complex user intent through multi-step deliberation. Yet existing approaches often rely on deterministic latent chains that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jie Jiang , Yang Wu , Qian Li , Yuling Xiong , Yihang Su , Junbang Huo , Longfei Lu , Jun Zhang , Huan Yu

Recent advancements in generative recommendation systems, particularly in the realm of sequential recommendation tasks, have shown promise in enhancing generalization to new items. Among these approaches, diffusion-based generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Guoqing Hu , Zhengyi Yang , Zhibo Cai , An Zhang , Xiang Wang

Recently, motivated by the outstanding achievements of diffusion models, the diffusion process has been employed to strengthen representation learning in recommendation systems. Most diffusion-based recommendation models typically utilize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yongchun Zhu , Guanyu Jiang , Jingwu Chen , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Diffusion-based generative models learn to iteratively transfer unstructured noise to a complex target distribution as opposed to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or the decoder of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) which produce samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sarthak Mittal , Guillaume Lajoie , Stefan Bauer , Arash Mehrjou

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Diffusion probabilistic models have been shown to generate state-of-the-art results on several competitive image synthesis benchmarks but lack a low-dimensional, interpretable latent space, and are slow at generation. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Kushagra Pandey , Avideep Mukherjee , Piyush Rai , Abhishek Kumar

Diffusion models, known for their strong generative capability derived from iterative noising and denoising processes, have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for sequential recommendation. To incorporate user history for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yimeng Bai , Yang Zhang , Sihao Ding , Shaohui Ruan , Han Yao , Danhui Guan , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Learning from a large corpus of data, pre-trained models have achieved impressive progress nowadays. As popular generative pre-training, diffusion models capture both low-level visual knowledge and high-level semantic relations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Diffusion models are rising as a powerful solution for high-fidelity image generation, which exceeds GANs in quality in many circumstances. However, their slow training and inference speed is a huge bottleneck, blocking them from being used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Hao Phung , Quan Dao , Anh Tran

Video diffusion models are able to generate high-quality videos by learning strong spatial-temporal priors on large-scale datasets. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether such priors derived from a generative process are suitable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zejia Weng , Xitong Yang , Zhen Xing , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Reranking plays a crucial role in modern multi-stage recommender systems by rearranging the initial ranking list to model interplay between items. Considering the inherent challenges of reranking such as combinatorial searching space, some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xiao Lin , Xiaokai Chen , Chenyang Wang , Hantao Shu , Linfeng Song , Biao Li , Peng jiang

Sequential recommendation (SRS) has become the technical foundation in many applications recently, which aims to recommend the next item based on the user's historical interactions. However, sequential recommendation often faces the problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Qidong Liu , Fan Yan , Xiangyu Zhao , Zhaocheng Du , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Feng Tian

Diffusion processes are a class of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) providing a rich family of expressive models that arise naturally in dynamic modelling tasks. Probabilistic inference and learning under generative models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Prakhar Verma , Vincent Adam , Arno Solin

Although recommenders can ship items to users automatically based on the users' preferences, they often cause unfairness to groups or individuals. For instance, when users can be divided into two groups according to a sensitive social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Zhenhao Jiang , Jicong Fan

Generative recommendation represents each item as a semantic ID, i.e., a sequence of discrete tokens, and generates the next item through autoregressive decoding. While effective, existing autoregressive models face two intrinsic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Teng Shi , Chenglei Shen , Weijie Yu , Shen Nie , Chongxuan Li , Xiao Zhang , Ming He , Yan Han , Jun Xu

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Roberto Miele , Niklas Linde

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generative sequential recommendation, which typically generate next items to recommend guided by user interaction histories with a multi-step denoising process. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Wenyu Mao , Jiancan Wu , Guoqing Hu , Zhengyi Yang , Wei Ji , Xiang Wang

Sequential Recommendation (SeqRec) aims to predict the next item by capturing sequential patterns from users' historical interactions, playing a crucial role in many real-world recommender systems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xu Chen , Wen Chen , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang

Recent advancements in diffusion models have shown promising results in sequential recommendation (SR). Existing approaches predominantly rely on implicit conditional diffusion models, which compress user behaviors into a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hongtao Huang , Chengkai Huang , Tong Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Wen Hu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao