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It is not accurate to make recommendations only based one single current session. Therefore, multi-session-based recommendation(MSBR) is a solution for the problem. Compared with the previous MSBR models, we have made three improvements in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zihan Wang , Gang Wu , Yan Wang

This paper studies the multi-modal recommendation problem, where the item multi-modality information (e.g., images and textual descriptions) is exploited to improve the recommendation accuracy. Besides the user-item interaction graph,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Xin Zhou , Hongyu Zhou , Yong Liu , Zhiwei Zeng , Chunyan Miao , Pengwei Wang , Yuan You , Feijun Jiang

The online emergence of multi-modal sharing platforms (eg, TikTok, Youtube) is powering personalized recommender systems to incorporate various modalities (eg, visual, textual and acoustic) into the latent user representations. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei Wei , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chuxu Zhang

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is mainly based on anonymous user interaction sequences to recommend the items that the next user is most likely to click. Currently, the most popular and high-performing SBR methods primarily leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shuo Zhang , Xiao Li , Jiayi Wu , Fan Yang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to capture dynamic user preferences by analyzing item sequences within individual sessions. However, most existing approaches focus mainly on intra-session item relationships, neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Wooseong Yang , Chen Wang , Zihe Song , Weizhi Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Session-based recommendation (SR) has become an important and popular component of various e-commerce platforms, which aims to predict the next interacted item based on a given session. Most of existing SR models only focus on exploiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Wenjing Meng , Deqing Yang , Yanghua Xiao

While recommender systems with multi-modal item representations (image, audio, and text), have been widely explored, learning recommendations from multi-modal user interactions (e.g., clicks and speech) remains an open problem. We study the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Simone Borg Bruun , Krisztian Balog , Maria Maistro

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) could acquire dynamic user preferences towards desired items through multi-round interactive dialogue. Previous CRS mainly focuses on the single conversation (subsession) that user quits after a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yu Ji , Qi Shen , Shixuan Zhu , Hang Yu , Yiming Zhang , Chuan Cui , Zhihua Wei

In recent years, multimodal recommendation has received significant attention and achieved remarkable success in GCN-based recommendation methods. However, there are two key challenges here: (1) There is a significant amount of redundant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xiangchen Pan , Wei Wei

Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on their limited behaviors. Modeling user behaviors involves two distinct rationales: co-occurrence patterns reflected by item IDs, and fine-grained preferences…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Zhaochun Ren , Xiaochen Wang , Hongfei Lin , Fenglong Ma

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

Bundle recommendation seeks to recommend a bundle of related items to users to improve both user experience and the profits of platform. Existing bundle recommendation models have progressed from capturing only user-bundle interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yunshan Ma , Yingzhi He , Xiang Wang , Yinwei Wei , Xiaoyu Du , Yuyangzi Fu , Tat-Seng Chua

In sequential recommendation, multi-modal information (e.g., text or image) can provide a more comprehensive view of an item's profile. The optimal stage (early or late) to fuse modality features into item representations is still debated.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hengchang Hu , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Min-Yen Kan

The explosion of multimedia data in information-rich environments has intensified the challenges of personalized content discovery, positioning recommendation systems as an essential form of passive data management. Multimodal sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Hewei Wang , Yijie Li , Jianheng Tang , Yunhuai Liu , Edith C. H. Ngai

Session-Based Recommenders (SBRs) aim to predict users' next preferences regard to their previous interactions in sessions while there is no historical information about them. Modern SBRs utilize deep neural networks to map users' current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Reza Yeganegi , Saman Haratizadeh

Multi-behavior recommendation (MBR) aims to jointly consider multiple behaviors to improve the target behavior's performance. We argue that MBR models should: (1) model the coarse-grained commonalities between different behaviors of a user,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yiqing Wu , Ruobing Xie , Yongchun Zhu , Xiang Ao , Xin Chen , Xu Zhang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Leyu Lin , Qing He

Many multimodal recommender systems have been proposed to exploit the rich side information associated with users or items (e.g., user reviews and item images) for learning better user and item representations to improve the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fan Liu , Huilin Chen , Zhiyong Cheng , Anan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Recommender systems help users deal with information overload by providing tailored item suggestions to them. The recommendation of news is often considered to be challenging, since the relevance of an article for a user can depend on a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira , Dietmar Jannach , Adilson Marques da Cunha

In this work, we propose a Unified framework of Sequential Search and Recommendation (UnifiedSSR) for joint learning of user behavior history in both search and recommendation scenarios. Specifically, we consider user-interacted products in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiayi Xie , Shang Liu , Gao Cong , Zhenzhong Chen

We study the problem of inferring substitutable and complementary items, which underpins applications such as alternative and follow-up purchase suggestions. Existing approaches typically learn from behavior-derived item-item associations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Junting Wang , Chenghuan Guo , Jiao Yang , Yanhui Guo , Hari Sundaram , Yan Gao