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Session-based Recommendation (SBR) aims to predict the next item a user will likely engage with, using their interaction sequence within an anonymous session. Existing SBR models often focus only on single-session information, ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jinpeng Chen , Jianxiang He , Huan Li , Senzhang Wang , Yuan Cao , Kaimin Wei , Zhenye Yang , Ye Ji

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is mainly based on anonymous user interaction sequences to recommend the items that the next user is most likely to click. Currently, the most popular and high-performing SBR methods primarily leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shuo Zhang , Xiao Li , Jiayi Wu , Fan Yang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims at predicting the next item for an ongoing anonymous session. The major challenge of SBR is how to capture richer relations in between items and learn ID-based item embeddings to capture such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Zizhuo Zhang , Bang Wang

Most sequential recommendation models capture the features of consecutive items in a user-item interaction history. Though effective, their representation expressiveness is still hindered by the sparse learning signals. As a result, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xu Yuan , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Bo Long

Sequential recommendation aims to capture user preferences by modeling sequential patterns in user-item interactions. However, these models are often influenced by noise such as accidental interactions, leading to suboptimal performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tongzhou Wu , Yuhao Wang , Maolin Wang , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to capture dynamic user preferences by analyzing item sequences within individual sessions. However, most existing approaches focus mainly on intra-session item relationships, neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Wooseong Yang , Chen Wang , Zihe Song , Weizhi Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Session-based recommendation aims at predicting the next item given a sequence of previous items consumed in the session, e.g., on e-commerce or multimedia streaming services. Specifically, session data exhibits some unique characteristics,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Minjin Choi , jinhong Kim , Joonseok Lee , Hyunjung Shim , Jongwuk Lee

Session-based recommendation systems(SBRS) are more suitable for the current e-commerce and streaming media recommendation scenarios and thus have become a hot topic. The data encountered by SBRS is typically highly sparse, which also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Zihan Wang , Gang Wu , Haotong Wang

The ubiquity of implicit feedback makes them the default choice to build modern recommender systems. Generally speaking, observed interactions are considered as positive samples, while unobserved interactions are considered as negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Yunjun Gao , Yuntao Du , Yujia Hu , Lu Chen , Xinjun Zhu , Ziquan Fang , Baihua Zheng

In session-based recommendation settings, a recommender system has no access to long-term user profiles and thus has to base its suggestions on the user interactions that are observed in an ongoing session. Since such sessions can consist…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Faisal Shehzad , Dietmar Jannach

Session-based recommendation aims to predict a user's next action based on previous actions in the current session. The major challenge is to capture authentic and complete user preferences in the entire session. Recent work utilizes graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jiayan Guo , Yaming Yang , Xiangchen Song , Yuan Zhang , Yujing Wang , Jing Bai , Yan Zhang

Session-based recommendation (SR) predicts the next items from a sequence of previous items consumed by an anonymous user. Most existing SR models focus only on modeling intra-session characteristics but pay less attention to inter-session…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Minjin Choi , Jinhong Kim , Joonsek Lee , Hyunjung Shim , Jongwuk Lee

Session-based recommendation (SR) aims to dynamically recommend items to a user based on a sequence of the most recent user-item interactions. Most existing studies on SR adopt advanced deep learning methods. However, the majority only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Huizi Wu , Cong Geng , Hui Fang

Session-based recommendation (SBR) methods often rely on user behavior data, which can struggle with the sparsity of session data, limiting performance. Researchers have identified that beyond behavioral signals, rich semantic information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shutong Qiao , Wei Zhou , Junhao Wen , Chen Gao , Qun Luo , Peixuan Chen , Yong Li

Session-based recommendation which has been witnessed a booming interest recently, focuses on predicting a user's next interested item(s) based on an anonymous session. Most existing studies adopt complex deep learning techniques (e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Huizi Wu , Cong Geng , Hui Fang

The goal of session-based recommendation (SR) models is to utilize the information from past actions (e.g. item/product clicks) in a session to recommend items that a user is likely to click next. Recently it has been shown that the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priyanka Gupta , Diksha Garg , Pankaj Malhotra , Lovekesh Vig , Gautam Shroff

Recently, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been applied to the task of session-based recommendation. These approaches use RNNs to predict the next item in a user session based on the previ- ously visited items. While some approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Alexander Dallmann , Alexander Grimm , Christian Pölitz , Daniel Zoller , Andreas Hotho

Session-based recommendation aims to predict the next item that anonymous users may be interested in, based on their current session interactions. Recent studies have demonstrated that retrieving neighbor sessions to augment the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yuhan Yang , Jie Zou , Guojia An , Jiwei Wei , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were recently proposed for the session-based recommendation task. The models showed promising improvements over traditional recommendation approaches. In this work, we further study RNN-based models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Yong Kiam Tan , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu

Session-based recommendation targets next-item prediction by exploiting user behaviors within a short time period. Compared with other recommendation paradigms, session-based recommendation suffers more from the problem of data sparsity due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xin Xia , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Yingxia Shao , Lizhen Cui