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Contrastive Learning (CL) performances as a rising approach to address the challenge of sparse and noisy recommendation data. Although having achieved promising results, most existing CL methods only perform either hand-crafted data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor Sheng

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict the subsequent behaviors of users by understanding their successive historical behaviors. Recently, some methods for SR are devoted to alleviating the data sparsity problem (i.e., limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ziyang Wang , Huoyu Liu , Wei Wei , Yue Hu , Xian-Ling Mao , Shaojian He , Rui Fang , Dangyang chen

The effectiveness of contrastive learning in sequential recommendation hinges on the construction of contrastive views, which ideally should be both semantically consistent and diverse. However, most existing CL-based methods rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wei Wang

Contrastive learning has been proven beneficial for self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition. Most contrastive learning methods utilize carefully designed augmentations to generate different movement patterns of skeletons for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jiahang Zhang , Lilang Lin , Jiaying Liu

Current sequential recommender systems are proposed to tackle the dynamic user preference learning with various neural techniques, such as Transformer and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, inference from the highly sparse user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chunzhen Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin

Sequential recommendation methods play a crucial role in modern recommender systems because of their ability to capture a user's dynamic interest from her/his historical interactions. Despite their success, we argue that these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xu Xie , Fei Sun , Zhaoyang Liu , Shiwen Wu , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Bin Cui

The sequential recommendation aims at predicting the next items in user behaviors, which can be solved by characterizing item relationships in sequences. Due to the data sparsity and noise issues in sequences, a new self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Man Luo , Philip S. Yu , Caiming Xiong

Sequential Recommendationdescribes a set of techniques to model dynamic user behavior in order to predict future interactions in sequential user data. At their core, such approaches model transition probabilities between items in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Philip S. Yu , Julian McAuley , Caiming Xiong

Hierarchical classification is a crucial task in many applications, where objects are organized into multiple levels of categories. However, conventional classification approaches often neglect inherent inter-class relationships at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Julius Ott , Nastassia Vysotskaya , Huawei Sun , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Contrastive learning has been effectively utilized to enhance the training of sequential recommendation models by leveraging informative self-supervised signals. Most existing approaches generate augmented views of the same user sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ziqiang Cui , Haolun Wu , Bowei He , Ji Cheng , Chen Ma

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL), which fuses graph neural networks with contrastive learning, has evolved as a pivotal tool in user-item recommendations. While promising, existing GCL methods often lack explicit modeling of hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiawei Xue , Zhen Yang , Haitao Lin , Ziji Zhang , Luzhu Wang , Yikun Gu , Yao Xu , Xin Li

Contrastive Learning (CL) enhances the training of sequential recommendation (SR) models through informative self-supervision signals. Existing methods often rely on data augmentation strategies to create positive samples and promote…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhikai Wang , Yanyan Shen , Zexi Zhang , Li He , Yichun Li , Hao Gu , Yinghua Zhang

Most existing contrastive learning-based sequential recommendation (SR) methods rely on random operations (e.g., crop, reorder, and substitute) to generate augmented sequences. These methods often struggle to create positive sample pairs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Wei Wang , Yujie Lin , Jianli Zhao , Moyan Zhang , Pengjie Ren , Xianye Ben , Yujun Li

Heterogeneous sequential recommendation (HSR) aims to learn dynamic behavior dependencies from the diverse behaviors of user-item interactions to facilitate precise sequential recommendation. Despite many efforts yielding promising…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jing Xiao , Dongqi Wu , Liwei Pan , Yawen Luo , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. With the ability in alleviating data sparsity, contrastive learning is prevailing in the task. However, we spot that existing contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Zhizheng Wang , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Traditional recommender systems such as matrix factorization methods have primarily focused on learning a shared dense embedding space to represent both items and user preferences. Subsequently, sequence models such as RNN, GRUs, and,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yaoyiran Li , Xiang Zhai , Moustafa Alzantot , Keyi Yu , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen , Mohamed Hammad

In this paper, we revisited the role of data augmentation in contrastive learning for sequential recommendation, revealing its inherent bias against low-frequency items and sparse user behaviors. To address this limitation, we proposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhikai Wang , Weihua Zhang

This paper presents a solution to the challenges faced by contrastive learning in sequential recommendation systems. In particular, it addresses the issue of false negative, which limits the effectiveness of recommendation algorithms. By…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jaeheyoung Jeon , Jung Hyun Ryu , Jewoong Cho , Myungjoo Kang

In recent years, methods that combine contrastive learning with graph neural networks have emerged to address the challenges of recommendation systems, demonstrating powerful performance and playing a significant role in this domain.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Hao Chen , Wenming Ma , Zihao Chu , Mingqi Li

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) are designed to predict users' future behaviors based on their historical interaction data. Recent research has increasingly utilized contrastive learning (CL) to leverage unsupervised signals to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peilin Zhou , You-Liang Huang , Yueqi Xie , Jingqi Gao , Shoujin Wang , Jae Boum Kim , Sunghun Kim
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