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Large language models (LLMs) have recently received significant attention for their exceptional capabilities. Despite extensive efforts in developing general-purpose LLMs that can be utilized in various natural language processing (NLP)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Fan Yang , Zheng Chen , Ziyan Jiang , Eunah Cho , Xiaojiang Huang , Yanbin Lu

Just as user preferences change with time, item reviews also reflect those same preference changes. In a nutshell, if one is to sequentially incorporate review content knowledge into recommender systems, one is naturally led to dynamical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Kostadin Cvejoski , Ramses J. Sanchez , Christian Bauckhage , Cesar Ojeda

With the ever-growing volume of online information, recommender systems have been an effective strategy to overcome such information overload. The utility of recommender systems cannot be overstated, given its widespread adoption in many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Yi Tay

Searching for and making decisions about information is becoming increasingly difficult as the amount of information and number of choices increases. Recommendation systems help users find items of interest of a particular type, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-07-04 M. H. Goker , P. Langley , C. A. Thompson

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

Text-based recommendation holds a wide range of practical applications due to its versatility, as textual descriptions can represent nearly any type of item. However, directly employing the original item descriptions may not yield optimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hanjia Lyu , Song Jiang , Hanqing Zeng , Yinglong Xia , Qifan Wang , Si Zhang , Ren Chen , Christopher Leung , Jiajie Tang , Jiebo Luo

User-item interaction histories are pivotal for sequential recommendation systems but often include noise, such as unintended clicks or actions that fail to reflect genuine user preferences. To address this, we propose Learned Item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haidong Xin , Zhenghao Liu , Sen Mei , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Shuo Wang , Zulong Chen , Yu Gu , Ge Yu , Chenyan Xiong

Recommender systems are essential components of many online platforms, yet traditional approaches still struggle with understanding complex user preferences and providing explainable recommendations. The emergence of Large Language Model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu , Hua Huang , Qing Yang , Minglai Shao

With the rapid growth of internet technologies, Web has become a huge repository of information and keeps growing exponentially under no editorial control. However the human capability to read, access and understand Web content remains…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-11 C. Ramesh , K. V. Chalapati Rao , A. Govardhan

Providing user-understandable explanations to justify recommendations could help users better understand the recommended items, increase the system's ease of use, and gain users' trust. A typical approach to realize it is natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Lei Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Li Chen

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item a user is likely to prefer based on their sequential interaction history. Recently, text-based sequential recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that uses pre-trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hyunsoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Jongwuk Lee

Online stores and service providers rely heavily on recommendation softwares to guide users through the vast amount of available products. Consequently, the field of recommender systems has attracted increased attention from the industry…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Abdullah Alhadlaq , Said Kerrache , Hatim Aboalsamh

Top-$N$ sequential recommendation models each user as a sequence of items interacted in the past and aims to predict top-$N$ ranked items that a user will likely interact in a `near future'. The order of interaction implies that sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Jiaxi Tang , Ke Wang

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

The goal of recommender systems is to provide ordered item lists to users that best match their interests. As a critical task in the recommendation pipeline, re-ranking has received increasing attention in recent years. In contrast to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yi Li , Jieming Zhu , Weiwen Liu , Liangcai Su , Guohao Cai , Qi Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xi Xiao , Xiuqiang He

Recommender systems support decisions in various domains ranging from simple items such as books and movies to more complex items such as financial services, telecommunication equipment, and software systems. In this context,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Alexander Felfernig , Viet-Man Le , Andrei Popescu , Mathias Uta , Thi Ngoc Trang Tran , Müslüum Atas

The vast majority of recommender systems model preferences as static or slowly changing due to observable user experience. However, spontaneous changes in user preferences are ubiquitous in many domains like media consumption and key…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Arun Kumar , Paul Schrater

Sequential recommendation plays an increasingly important role in many e-commerce services such as display advertisement and online shopping. With the rapid development of these services in the last two decades, users have accumulated a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yongji Wu , Lu Yin , Defu Lian , Mingyang Yin , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang

The sequential recommendation problem has attracted considerable research attention in the past few years, leading to the rise of numerous recommendation models. In this work, we explore how Large Language Models (LLMs), which are nowadays…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Artun Boz , Wouter Zorgdrager , Zoe Kotti , Jesse Harte , Panos Louridas , Dietmar Jannach , Vassilios Karakoidas , Marios Fragkoulis

The paper underscores the significance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in reshaping recommender systems, attributing their value to unique reasoning abilities absent in traditional recommenders. Unlike conventional systems lacking direct…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Arpita Vats , Vinija Jain , Rahul Raja , Aman Chadha