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Recommendation systems have been essential for both user experience and platform efficiency by alleviating information overload and supporting decision-making. Traditional methods, i.e., content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Lining Chen , Qingwen Zeng , Huaming Chen

The emerging topic of sequential recommender systems has attracted increasing attention in recent years.Different from the conventional recommender systems including collaborative filtering and content-based filtering, SRSs try to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Shoujin Wang , Liang Hu , Yan Wang , Longbing Cao , Quan Z. Sheng , Mehmet Orgun

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is a challenging task, which aims to predict users' future interests based on anonymous behavior sequences. Existing methods leverage powerful representation learning approaches to encode sessions into a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Ziyang Wang , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Xiao-Li Li , Shanshan Feng

Conversational recommender systems offer the promise of interactive, engaging ways for users to find items they enjoy. We seek to improve conversational recommendation via three dimensions: 1) We aim to mimic a common mode of human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Shuyang Li , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) imitate human advisors to assist users in finding items through conversations and have recently gained increasing attention in domains such as media and e-commerce. Like in human communication,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Wanling Cai , Yucheng Jin , Li Chen

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is a task that aims to predict items based on anonymous sequences of user behaviors in a session. While there are methods that leverage rich context information in sessions for SBR, most of them have the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zhihui Zhang , JianXiang Yu , Xiang Li

Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) have become extremely popular in view of the core capability of capturing short-term and dynamic user preferences. However, most SBRSs primarily maximize recommendation accuracy but ignore user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Qing Yin , Hui Fang , Zhu Sun , Yew-Soon Ong

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) enable users to articulate their preferences and provide feedback through natural language. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), the potential to enhance user engagement with CRS and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yizhe Zhang , Yucheng Jin , Li Chen , Ting Yang

Recent years witnessed several advances in developing multi-goal conversational recommender systems (MG-CRS) that can proactively attract users' interests and naturally lead user-engaged dialogues with multiple conversational goals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yang Deng , Wenxuan Zhang , Weiwen Xu , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua , Wai Lam

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) is a hot topic in sequence-based user interest modeling, which aims at utilizing a single model to predict the next items for different domains. To tackle the CDSR, many methods are focused on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Haipeng Li , Jiangxia Cao , Yiwen Gao , Yunhuai Liu , Shuchao Pang

In sparse recommender settings, users' context and item attributes play a crucial role in deciding which items to recommend next. Despite that, recent works in sequential and time-aware recommendations usually either ignore both aspects or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Ahmed Rashed , Shereen Elsayed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Sequential recommendation predicts user preferences over time and has achieved remarkable success. However, the growing length of user interaction sequences and the complex entanglement of evolving user interests and intentions introduce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Haoran Zhang , Jingtong Liu , Jiangzhou Deng , Junpeng Guo

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

While Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) have matured technically, they frequently lack principled methods for encoding latent experiential aims as adaptive state variables. Consequently, contemporary architectures often prioritise…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Raj Mahmud , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mukesh Prasad , A. Baki Kocaballi

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in recommendation systems. However, the effective application of MLLMs to multimodal sequential recommendation remains unexplored: A)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Haoyu Wang , Yitong Wang , Jining Wang

Most existing recommender systems leverage user behavior data of one type only, such as the purchase behavior in E-commerce that is directly related to the business KPI (Key Performance Indicator) of conversion rate. Besides the key…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Chen Gao , Xiangnan He , Dahua Gan , Xiangning Chen , Fuli Feng , Yong Li , Tat-Seng Chua , Lina Yao , Yang Song , Depeng Jin

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

The conversational recommendation system (CRS) has been criticized regarding its user experience in real-world scenarios, despite recent significant progress achieved in academia. Existing evaluation protocols for CRS may prioritize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chen Huang , Peixin Qin , Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv , Tat-Seng Chua

Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSR) aims to incorporate behavior types of interactions for better recommendations. Existing approaches focus on the next-item prediction objective, neglecting the value of integrating the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zihan Liu , Yupeng Hou , Julian McAuley

Recommender system of the e-commerce platform usually serves multiple business scenarios. Multi-scenario Recommendation (MSR) is an important topic that improves ranking performance by leveraging information from different scenarios. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiufeng Shu , Ruidong Han , Xiang Li , Wei Lin