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News recommendation for anonymous readers is a useful but challenging task for many news portals, where interactions between readers and articles are limited within a temporary login session. Previous works tend to formulate session-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shansan Gong , Kenny Q. Zhu

Recent years have witnessed growing interests in multimedia recommendation, which aims to predict whether a user will interact with an item with multimodal contents. Previous studies focus on modeling user-item interactions with multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jinghao Zhang , Yanqiao Zhu , Qiang Liu , Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Session-based recommendation systems (SBRS) aim to capture user's short-term intent from interaction sequences. However, the common assumption of anonymous sessions limits personalization, particularly under sparse or cold-start conditions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Muskan Gupta , Suraj Thapa , Jyotsana Khatri

Session-based Recommendation (SBR) refers to the task of predicting the next item based on short-term user behaviors within an anonymous session. However, session embedding learned by a non-linear encoder is usually not in the same…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yupeng Hou , Binbin Hu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Wayne Xin Zhao

Recommender systems that learn from implicit feedback often use large volumes of a single type of implicit user feedback, such as clicks, to enhance the prediction of sparse target behavior such as purchases. Using multiple types of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Xin Xin , Xiangyuan Liu , Hanbing Wang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jiahuan Lei , Xinlei Shi , Hengliang Luo , Joemon Jose , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Session-based recommendation is gaining increasing attention due to its practical value in predicting the intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. Emerging efforts incorporate various side information to alleviate inherent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Chenliang Li , Bowei He , Hongfei Lin , Chen Ma , Fenglong Ma

Multi-Behavior Recommendation (MBR) leverages multiple user interaction types (e.g., views, clicks, purchases) to enrich preference modeling and alleviate data sparsity issues in traditional single-behavior approaches. However, existing MBR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ranxu Zhang , Junjie Meng , Ying Sun , Ziqi Xu , Bing Yin , Hao Li , Yanyong Zhang , Chao Wang

Sequential recommender systems explore users' preferences and behavioral patterns from their historically generated data. Recently, researchers aim to improve sequential recommendation by utilizing massive user-generated multi-modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Meng Yan , Haibin Huang , Ying Liu , Juan Zhao , Xiyue Gao , Cai Xu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao

Session-based recommender systems aim to improve recommendations in short-term sessions that can be found across many platforms. A critical challenge is to accurately model user intent with only limited evidence in these short sessions. For…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jianling Wang , Kaize Ding , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

To tackle cold-start and data sparsity issues in recommender systems, numerous multimodal, sequential, and contrastive techniques have been proposed. While these augmentations can boost recommendation performance, they tend to add noise and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

The burgeoning presence of multimodal content-sharing platforms propels the development of personalized recommender systems. Previous works usually suffer from data sparsity and cold-start problems, and may fail to adequately explore…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xu Guo , Tong Zhang , Fuyun Wang , Xudong Wang , Xiaoya Zhang , Xin Liu , Zhen Cui

In recommendation systems, users often exhibit multiple behaviors, such as browsing, clicking, and purchasing. Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSR) aims to consider these different behaviors in an integrated manner to improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yongqiang Han , Kai Cheng , Kefan Wang , Enhong Chen

Sequential Recommendation (SR) captures users' dynamic preferences by modeling how users transit among items. However, SR models that utilize only single type of behavior interaction data encounter performance degradation when the sequences…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Jiajie Su , Chaochao Chen , Zibin Lin , Xi Li , Weiming Liu , Xiaolin Zheng

Multimedia recommendation aims to fuse the multi-modal information of items for feature enrichment to improve the recommendation performance. However, existing methods typically introduce multi-modal information based on collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Haokai Ma , Zhuang Qi , Xinxin Dong , Xiangxian Li , Yuze Zheng , Xiangxu Mengand Lei Meng

In recent years, content recommendation systems in large websites (or \emph{content providers}) capture an increased focus. While the type of content varies, e.g.\ movies, articles, music, advertisements, etc., the high level problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-06 Yahel David , Dotan Di Castro , Zohar Karnin

Sequential recommendation systems that model dynamic preferences based on a use's past behavior are crucial to e-commerce. Recent studies on these systems have considered various types of information such as images and texts. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hyungtaik Oh , Wonkeun Jo , Dongil Kim

A session-based news recommender system recommends the next news to a user by modeling the potential interests embedded in a sequence of news read/clicked by her/him in a session. Generally, a user's interests are diverse, namely there are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Rongyao Wang , Wenpeng Lu

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Recommender systems are fundamental information filtering techniques to recommend content or items that meet users' personalities and potential needs. As a crucial solution to address the difficulty of user identification and unavailability…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiaolin Zheng , Rui Wu , Zhongxuan Han , Chaochao Chen , Linxun Chen , Bing Han

Session-based recommendation aims to predict a user's next action based on previous actions in the current session. The major challenge is to capture authentic and complete user preferences in the entire session. Recent work utilizes graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jiayan Guo , Yaming Yang , Xiangchen Song , Yuan Zhang , Yujing Wang , Jing Bai , Yan Zhang