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We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Recent advances in multimodal recommendation enable richer item understanding, while modeling users' multi-scale interests across temporal horizons has attracted growing attention. However, effectively exploiting multimodal item sequences…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yongrui Fu , Jian Liu , Tao Li , Zonggang Wu , Shouke Qin , Hanmeng Liu

Increasing aggregate diversity (or catalog coverage) is an important system-level objective in many recommendation domains where it may be desirable to mitigate the popularity bias and to improve the coverage of long-tail items in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Farzad Eskandanian , Bamshad Mobasher

Beyond user-item modeling, item-to-item relationships are increasingly used to enhance recommendation. However, common methods largely rely on co-occurrence, making them prone to item popularity bias and user attributes, which degrades…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jingmao Zhang , Zhiting Zhao , Yunqi Lin , Jianghong Ma , Tianjun Wei , Haijun Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to improve the diversity of Top-N recommendations while maintaining accuracy. Our approach employs a user-centric pre-processing strategy aimed at exposing users to a wide array of content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Manel Slokom , Savvina Danil , Laura Hollink

Recommender systems can automatically recommend users with items that they probably like. The goal of them is to model the user-item interaction by effectively representing the users and items. Existing methods have primarily learned the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xue Dong , Xuemeng Song , Na Zheng , Yinwei Wei , Zhongzhou Zhao

Reranking, as the final stage of multi-stage recommender systems, refines the initial lists to maximize the total utility. With the development of multimedia and user interface design, the recommendation page has evolved to a multi-list…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yunjia Xi , Jianghao Lin , Weiwen Liu , Xinyi Dai , Weinan Zhang , Rui Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Yong Yu

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns from the temporal dynamics of user-item interactions to predict the next ones. Fairness-aware recommendation mitigates a variety of algorithmic biases in the learning of user preferences. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Cheng-Te Li , Cheng Hsu , Yang Zhang

With the increasing development of e-commerce and online services, personalized recommendation systems have become crucial for enhancing user satisfaction and driving business revenue. Traditional sequential recommendation methods that rely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Kunzhe Song , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yaming Yang

Personalized recommendation serves as a ubiquitous channel for users to discover information tailored to their interests. However, traditional recommendation models primarily rely on unique IDs and categorical features for user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Qijiong Liu , Jieming Zhu , Yanting Yang , Quanyu Dai , Zhaocheng Du , Xiao-Ming Wu , Zhou Zhao , Rui Zhang , Zhenhua Dong

Recently, neural networks have been widely used in e-commerce recommender systems, owing to the rapid development of deep learning. We formalize the recommender system as a sequential recommendation problem, intending to predict the next…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yukuo Cen , Jianwei Zhang , Xu Zou , Chang Zhou , Hongxia Yang , Jie Tang

Recommender systems often operate on item catalogs clustered by genres, and user bases that have natural clusterings into user types by demographic or psychographic attributes. Prior work on system-wide diversity has mainly focused on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Arda Antikacioglu , Tanvi Bajpai , R. Ravi

Recommender systems are effective tools for mitigating information overload and have seen extensive applications across various domains. However, the single focus on utility goals proves to be inadequate in addressing real-world concerns,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuying Zhao , Yu Wang , Yunchao Liu , Xueqi Cheng , Charu Aggarwal , Tyler Derr

Recommender systems traditionally represent items using unique identifiers (ItemIDs), but this approach struggles with large, dynamic item corpora and sparse long-tail data, limiting scalability and generalization. Semantic IDs, derived…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Xu , Moyu Zhang , Chenxuan Li , Zhihao Liao , Haibo Xing , Hao Deng , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Repeat consumption, such as repurchasing items and relistening songs, is a common scenario in daily life. To model repeat consumption, the repeat-aware recommendation has been proposed to predict which item will be re-interacted based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Shigang Quan , Shui Liu , Zhenzhe Zheng , Fan Wu

The main idea of multimodal recommendation is the rational utilization of the item's multimodal information to improve the recommendation performance. Previous works directly integrate item multimodal features with item ID embeddings,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yan Zhou , Jie Guo , Hao Sun , Bin Song , Fei Richard Yu

Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

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

Sequential recommendation systems model dynamic preferences of users based on their historical interactions with platforms. Despite recent progress, modeling short-term and long-term behavior of users in such systems is nontrivial and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Mehrnaz Amjadi , Seyed Danial Mohseni Taheri , Theja Tulabandhula

In next basket recommendation (NBR) a set of items is recommended to users based on their historical basket sequences. In many domains, the recommended baskets consist of both repeat items and explore items. Some state-of-the-art NBR…

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