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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…

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This work introduces a novel interpretable machine learning method called Mixture of Decision Trees (MoDT). It constitutes a special case of the Mixture of Experts ensemble architecture, which utilizes a linear model as gating function and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Simeon Brüggenjürgen , Nina Schaaf , Pascal Kerschke , Marco F. Huber

Sequential recommendation techniques provide users with product recommendations fitting their current preferences by handling dynamic user preferences over time. Previous studies have focused on modeling sequential dynamics without much…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Seongwon Jang , Hoyeop Lee , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

With the advancement of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, recommender systems have been increasingly used across a vast variety of platforms to efficiently and effectively match users with items. As application…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xuan Bi , Yaqiong Wang , Gediminas Adomavicius , Shawn Curley

Sequence modelling requires determining which past tokens are causally relevant from the context and their importance: a process inherent to the attention layers in transformers, yet whose underlying learned mechanisms remain poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Francesco D'Angelo , Nicolas Flammarion

As industrial recommender systems enter a scaling-driven regime, Transformer architectures have become increasingly attractive for scaling models towards larger capacity and longer sequence. However, existing Transformer-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xu Huang , Hao Zhang , Zhifang Fan , Yunwen Huang , Zhuoxing Wei , Zheng Chai , Jinan Ni , Yuchao Zheng , Qiwei Chen

Recently, transformers have demonstrated great potential for modeling long-term dependencies from skeleton sequences and thereby gained ever-increasing attention in skeleton action recognition. However, the existing transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Wenhan Wu , Ce Zheng , Zihao Yang , Chen Chen , Srijan Das , Aidong Lu

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is a critical task in location-based social networks, yet remains challenging due to a high degree of variation and personalization exhibited in user movements. In this work, we explore the latent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiayi Xie , Zhenzhong Chen

Sequential recommendation aims to recommend the next item of users' interest based on their historical interactions. Recently, the self-attention mechanism has been adapted for sequential recommendation, and demonstrated state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Bo Peng , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

Recommender systems aim to estimate the dynamically changing user preferences and sequential dependencies between historical user behaviour and metadata. Although transformer-based models have proven to be effective in sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mark Obozov , Makar Baderko , Stepan Kulibaba , Nikolay Kutuzov , Alexander Gasnikov

Sequential recommendation aims to choose the most suitable items for a user at a specific timestamp given historical behaviors. Existing methods usually model the user behavior sequence based on the transition-based methods like Markov…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Fengzhu Wu , Sili Zhang , Hao Gu , Yuexing Hao , Yuguang

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of data mining and machine learning technology in practice. Academic research in the field is historically often based on the matrix completion problem formulation, where for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Massimo Quadrana , Paolo Cremonesi , Dietmar Jannach

Self-attention models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in sequential recommender systems by capturing the sequential dependencies among user-item interactions. However, they rely on positional embeddings to retain the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Muyang Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Chuan Lyu , Minghao Zhao , Runze Wu , Ruocheng Guo

Sequential recommendation systems aim to provide personalized recommendations by analyzing dynamic preferences and dependencies within user behavior sequences. Recently, Transformer models can effectively capture user preferences. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shun Zhang , Runsen Zhang , Zhirong Yang

Graph-based next-step prediction models have recently been very successful in modeling complex high-dimensional physical systems on irregular meshes. However, due to their short temporal attention span, these models suffer from error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Xu Han , Han Gao , Tobias Pfaff , Jian-Xun Wang , Li-Ping Liu

Sequential recommendation (SR) systems excel at capturing users' dynamic preferences by leveraging their interaction histories. Most existing SR systems assign a single embedding vector to each item to represent its features, adopting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long

Sequential modelling entails making sense of sequential data, which naturally occurs in a wide array of domains. One example is systems that interact with users, log user actions and behaviour, and make recommendations of items of potential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Christian Hansen

Most recommender systems treat timestamps as numeric or cyclical values, overlooking real-world context such as holidays, events, and seasonal patterns. We propose a scalable framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yejin Kim , Shaghayegh Agah , Mayur Nankani , Neeraj Sharma , Feifei Peng , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H Howie Huang

The rapid growth of location acquisition technologies makes Point-of-Interest(POI) recommendation possible due to redundant user check-in records. In this paper, we focus on next POI recommendation in which next POI is based on previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yiping Sun

Sequential recommendation aims to model dynamic user behavior from historical interactions. Existing methods rely on either explicit item IDs or general textual features for sequence modeling to understand user preferences. While promising,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiacheng Li , Ming Wang , Jin Li , Jinmiao Fu , Xin Shen , Jingbo Shang , Julian McAuley