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Sequential Recommendation characterizes the evolving patterns by modeling item sequences chronologically. The essential target of it is to capture the item transition correlations. The recent developments of transformer inspire the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhiwei Liu , Ziwei Fan , Yu Wang , Philip S. Yu

Sequential Recommendation (SRs) that capture users' dynamic intents by modeling user sequential behaviors can recommend closely accurate products to users. Previous work on SRs is mostly focused on optimizing the recommendation accuracy,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Wanyu Chen , Pengjie Ren , Fei Cai , Maarten de Rijke

Modern recommender systems struggle to effectively utilize the rich, yet high-dimensional and noisy, multi-modal features generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Treating these features as static inputs decouples them from the core…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiahao Tian , Zhenkai Wang

Sequential recommendation involves automatically recommending the next item to users based on their historical item sequence. While most prior research employs RNN or transformer methods to glean information from the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiaofan Zhou

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) aim to predict users' next interaction based on their historical behaviors, while still facing the challenge of data sparsity. With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingyao Huang , Qidong Liu , Wenxuan Yang , Moranxin Wang , Yuqi Sun , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian , Yan Chen

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

Representation learning in sequential recommendation is critical for accurately modeling user interaction patterns and improving recommendation precision. However, existing approaches predominantly emphasize item-to-item transitions, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yang Liu , Yitong Wang , Chenyue Feng

Modeling user preferences (long-term history) and user dynamics (short-term history) is of greatest importance to build efficient sequential recommender systems. The challenge lies in the successful combination of the whole user's history…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Corentin Lonjarret , Roch Auburtin , Céline Robardet , Marc Plantevit

In Sequential Recommenders (SR), encoding and utilizing modalities in an end-to-end manner is costly in terms of modality encoder sizes. Two-stage approaches can mitigate such concerns, but they suffer from poor performance due to modality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hengchang Hu , Qijiong Liu , Chuang Li , Min-Yen Kan

Generative models such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise in sequential recommendation tasks. However, they face challenges, including posterior collapse and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sharare Zolghadr , Ole Winther , Paul Jeha

Multimodal Recommendation (MMR) systems are crucial for modern platforms but are often hampered by inherent noise and uncertainty in modal features, such as blurry images, diverse visual appearances, or ambiguous text. Existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinzhuo Wu , Hongbo Wang , Yuan Lin , Kan Xu , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

User cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommendation systems. Fortunately, cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has emerged as a highly effective remedy for the user cold-start challenge, with recently developed diffusion…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xiaodong Li , Juwei Yue , Xinghua Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Wenyuan Zhang , Taoyu Su , Zefeng Zhang , Tingwen Liu

Representation learning is essential for deep-neural-network-based recommender systems to capture user preferences and item features within fixed-dimensional user and item vectors. Unlike existing representation learning methods that either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Riwei Lai , Li Chen , Weixin Chen , Rui Chen

Session-based Recommendation (SBR) refers to the task of predicting the next item based on short-term user behaviors within an anonymous session. However, session embedding learned by a non-linear encoder is usually not in the same…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yupeng Hou , Binbin Hu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Wayne Xin Zhao

Sequential recommendation methods are crucial in modern recommender systems for their remarkable capability to understand a user's changing interests based on past interactions. However, a significant challenge faced by current methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Haohao Qu , Yifeng Zhang , Liangbo Ning , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Sequential Recommendation (SR) learns user preferences from their historical interaction sequences and provides personalized suggestions. In real-world scenarios, most items exhibit sparse interactions, known as the tail-item problem. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhifu Wei , Yizhou Dang , Guibing Guo , Chuang Zhao , Zhu Sun

Sequential recommendation is often considered as a generative task, i.e., training a sequential encoder to generate the next item of a user's interests based on her historical interacted items. Despite their prevalence, these methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Caiming Xiong

Sequential recommendations (SR) predict users' future interactions based on their historical behavior. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought powerful generative and reasoning capabilities, significantly enhancing SR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qiyong Zhong , Jiajie Su , Ming Yang , Yunshan Ma , Xiaolin Zheng , Chaochao Chen

Sequential recommender systems have demonstrated strong capabilities in modeling users' dynamic preferences and capturing item transition patterns. However, real-world user behaviors are often noisy due to factors such as human errors,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Kaike Zhang , Qi Cao , Fei Sun , Xinran Liu , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Sequential Recommendation (SR) models user dynamics and predicts the next preferred items based on the user history. Existing SR methods model the 'was interacted before' item-item transitions observed in sequences, which can be viewed as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Chen Wang , Peijie Huang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu