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The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) as re-rankers is shifting recommender systems towards a user-centric paradigm. However, a significant gap remains: current re-rankers often lack mechanisms for fine-grained user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wenxi Dai , Wujiang Xu , Pinhuan Wang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

With the advent of the information explosion era, the importance of recommendation systems in various applications is increasingly significant. Traditional collaborative filtering algorithms are widely used due to their effectiveness in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xueting Lin , Zhan Cheng , Longfei Yun , Qingyi Lu , Yuanshuai Luo

Recommender systems play a fundamental role in web applications in filtering massive information and matching user interests. While many efforts have been devoted to developing more effective models in various scenarios, the exploration on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Ninghao Liu , Yong Ge , Li Li , Xia Hu , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi

Sequential recommendations aim to capture users' preferences from their historical interactions so as to predict the next item that they will interact with. Sequential recommendation methods usually assume that all items in a user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yujie Lin , Chenyang Wang , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Xin Xin , Qiang Yan , Maarten de Rijke , Xiuzhen Cheng , Pengjie Ren

Conversational recommenders are emerging as a powerful tool to personalize a user's recommendation experience. Through a back-and-forth dialogue, users can quickly hone in on just the right items. Many approaches to conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Allen Lin , Ziwei Zhu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) recommender systems often rely on static datasets that fail to capture the fluid, ever changing nature of user preferences in real-world scenarios. Meanwhile, generative AI techniques have emerged as powerful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Danial Ebrat , Eli Paradalis , Luis Rueda

LLM-based agents are emerging as a promising paradigm for simulating user behavior to enhance recommender systems. However, their effectiveness is often limited by existing studies that focus on modeling user ratings for individual items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiahao Wang , Bokang Fu , Yu Zhu , Yuli Liu

In session-based or sequential recommendation, it is important to consider a number of factors like long-term user engagement, multiple types of user-item interactions such as clicks, purchases etc. The current state-of-the-art supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xin Xin , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M. Jose

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) have become a cornerstone of online platforms, leveraging users' historical interaction data to forecast their next potential engagement. Despite their widespread adoption, SRS often grapple with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yuqi Sun , Qidong Liu , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian

Sequential recommendation (SR) systems have evolved significantly over the past decade, transitioning from traditional collaborative filtering to deep learning approaches and, more recently, to large language models (LLMs). While the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yucong Luo , Qitao Qin , Hao Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Ruiran Yan , Kefan Wang , Jie Ouyang

Sequential recommendation, a critical task in recommendation systems, predicts the next user action based on the understanding of the user's historical behaviors. Conventional studies mainly focus on cross-behavior modeling with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhen Gong , Zhifang Fan , Hui Lu , Qiwei Chen , Chenbin Zhang , Lin Guan , Yuchao Zheng , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Recommender systems help users navigate information overload by providing personalized recommendations aligned with their preferences. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely adopted approach, but while advanced techniques like graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qiyao Ma , Xubin Ren , Chao Huang

Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction paradigm, where the users' preferences are estimated based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dietmar Jannach , Ahtsham Manzoor , Wanling Cai , Li Chen

Sequential recommendation has become increasingly essential in various online services. It aims to model the dynamic preferences of users from their historical interactions and predict their next items. The accumulated user behavior records…

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

Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their information search and decision-making processes in an intuitive way. With the latest advances in voice-controlled devices, natural language processing,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Dietmar Jannach

This paper introduces RecAI, a practical toolkit designed to augment or even revolutionize recommender systems with the advanced capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). RecAI provides a suite of tools, including Recommender AI Agent,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jianxun Lian , Yuxuan Lei , Xu Huang , Jing Yao , Wei Xu , Xing Xie

This paper introduces a novel dataset REGEN (Reviews Enhanced with GEnerative Narratives), designed to benchmark the conversational capabilities of recommender Large Language Models (LLMs), addressing the limitations of existing datasets…

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

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have been changing the paradigm of Recommender Systems (RS). However, when items in the recommendation scenarios contain rich textual information, such as product descriptions in online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhi Zheng , Wenshuo Chao , Zhaopeng Qiu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong