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Recommender system (RS) aims to capture personalized preferences from massive user behaviors, making them pivotal in the era of information explosion. However, the presence of ``information cocoons'', interaction sparsity, cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Haokai Ma , Ruobing Xie , Lei Meng , Fuli Feng , Xiaoyu Du , Xingwu Sun , Zhanhui Kang , Xiangxu Meng

Accurate user interest modeling is important for news recommendation. Most existing methods for news recommendation rely on implicit feedbacks like click for inferring user interests and model training. However, click behaviors usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

As the micro-video apps become popular, the numbers of micro-videos and users increase rapidly, which highlights the importance of micro-video recommendation. Although the micro-video recommendation can be naturally treated as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Yisong Yu , Beihong Jin , Jiageng Song , Beibei Li , Yiyuan Zheng , Wei Zhu

As users often express their preferences with binary behavior data~(implicit feedback), such as clicking items or buying products, implicit feedback based Collaborative Filtering~(CF) models predict the top ranked items a user might like by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Lei Chen , Le Wu , Kun Zhang , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Sequential recommendation demonstrates the capability to recommend items by modeling the sequential behavior of users. Traditional methods typically treat users as sequences of items, overlooking the collaborative relationships among them.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sijia Liu , Jiahao Liu , Hansu Gu , Dongsheng Li , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

Modern web-based platforms show ranked lists of recommendations to users, attempting to maximise user satisfaction or business metrics. Typically, the goal of such systems boils down to maximising the exposure probability for items that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Olivier Jeunen

Recent methods in sequential recommendation focus on learning an overall embedding vector from a user's behavior sequence for the next-item recommendation. However, from empirical analysis, we discovered that a user's behavior sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Jianwei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ninghao Liu , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang , Xia Hu

Sequential Recommendation is a prominent topic in current research, which uses user behavior sequence as an input to predict future behavior. By assessing the correlation strength of historical behavior through the dot product, the model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jiayi Chen , Wen Wu , Liye Shi , Yu Ji , Wenxin Hu , Xi Chen , Wei Zheng , Liang He

Short-format videos have exploded on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Despite this, the research community lacks large-scale empirical studies into how people engage with short-format videos and the role of recommendation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Savvas Zannettou , Olivia-Nemes Nemeth , Oshrat Ayalon , Angelica Goetzen , Krishna P. Gummadi , Elissa M. Redmiles , Franziska Roesner

Recommender systems trained on implicit feedback data rely on negative sampling to distinguish positive items from negative items for each user. Since the majority of positive interactions come from a small group of active users, negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yueqing Xuan , Kacper Sokol , Mark Sanderson , Jeffrey Chan

In this paper, we propose a robust sequential learning strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback mainly in the form of clicks. Our approach relies on the minimization of a pairwise ranking loss over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Alexandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

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

Learning the user-item relevance hidden in implicit feedback data plays an important role in modern recommender systems. Neural sequential recommendation models, which formulates learning the user-item relevance as a sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jingwei Zhuo , Bin Liu , Xiang Li , Han Zhu , Xiaoqiang Zhu

Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next item for recommendation based on previously recorded sessions of user interaction. The majority of existing approaches to SR focus on modeling the transition patterns of items. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiahao Yuan , Wendi Ji , Dell Zhang , Jinwei Pan , Xiaoling Wang

Large-scale industrial recommendation models predict the most relevant items from catalogs containing millions or billions of options. To train these models efficiently, a small set of irrelevant items (negative samples) is selected from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Arushi Prakash , Dimitrios Bermperidis , Srivas Chennu

Recommendation systems have traditionally relied on short-term engagement signals, such as clicks and likes, to personalize content. However, these signals are often noisy, sparse, and insufficient for capturing long-term user satisfaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Saeideh Bakhshi , Phuong Mai Nguyen , Robert Schiller , Tiantian Xu , Pawan Kodandapani , Andrew Levine , Cayman Simpson , Qifan Wang

Modeling the evolution of user preference is essential in recommender systems. Recently, dynamic graph-based methods have been studied and achieved SOTA for recommendation, majority of which focus on user's stable long-term preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Huixuan Chi , Hao Xu , Hao Fu , Mengya Liu , Mengdi Zhang , Yuji Yang , Qinfen Hao , Wei Wu

News recommendation is important for online news services. Precise user interest modeling is critical for personalized news recommendation. Existing news recommendation methods usually rely on the implicit feedback of users like news clicks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Nowadays, reading or writing comments on captivating videos has emerged as a critical part of the viewing experience on online video platforms. However, existing recommender systems primarily focus on users' interaction behaviors with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Bowen Zheng , Zihan Lin , Enze Liu , Chen Yang , Enyang Bai , Cheng Ling , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Recent years have witnessed success of sequential modeling, generative recommender, and large language model for recommendation. Though the scaling law has been validated for sequential models, it showed inefficiency in computational…