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In this paper, we focus on the often-overlooked issue of embedding collapse in existing diffusion-based sequential recommendation models and propose ADRec, an innovative framework designed to mitigate this problem. Diverging from previous…

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In the realm of music recommendation, sequential recommender systems have shown promise in capturing the dynamic nature of music consumption. Nevertheless, traditional Transformer-based models, such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, while effective,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Davide Abbattista , Vito Walter Anelli , Tommaso Di Noia , Craig Macdonald , Aleksandr Vladimirovich Petrov

To develop effective sequential recommender systems, numerous methods have been proposed to model historical user behaviors. Despite the effectiveness, these methods share the same fast thinking paradigm. That is, for making…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junjie Zhang , Beichen Zhang , Wenqi Sun , Hongyu Lu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yu Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

The recommendation methods based on network diffusion have been shown to perform well in both recommendation accuracy and diversity. Nowdays, numerous extensions have been made to further improve the performance of such methods. However, to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-13 Peng Zhang , Leyang Xue , An Zeng

Diffusion recommender systems achieve strong recommendation accuracy but often suffer from popularity bias, resulting in unequal item exposure. To address this shortcoming, we introduce A2G-DiffRec, a diffusion recommender that incorporates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zihan Li , Gustavo Escobedo , Marta Moscati , Oleg Lesota , Markus Schedl

Repeat consumption, such as repurchasing items and relistening songs, is a common scenario in daily life. To model repeat consumption, the repeat-aware recommendation has been proposed to predict which item will be re-interacted based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Shigang Quan , Shui Liu , Zhenzhe Zheng , Fan Wu

The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have generated considerable interest in their utilization for sequential recommendation tasks. While collaborative signals from similar users are central to recommendation modeling,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tong Zhang

Deep neural networks have emerged as a powerful technique for learning representations from user-item interaction data in collaborative filtering (CF) for recommender systems. However, many existing methods heavily rely on unique user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xubin Ren , Chao Huang

Recommender systems often grapple with noisy implicit feedback. Most studies alleviate the noise issues from data cleaning perspective such as data resampling and reweighting, but they are constrained by heuristic assumptions. Another…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jujia Zhao , Wenjie Wang , Yiyan Xu , Teng Sun , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Sequential recommenders are crucial to the success of online applications, \eg e-commerce, video streaming, and social media. While model architectures continue to improve, for every new application domain, we still have to train a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Junting Wang , Praneet Rathi , Hari Sundaram

Direct preference optimization (DPO) methods have shown strong potential in aligning text-to-image diffusion models with human preferences by training on paired comparisons. These methods improve training stability by avoiding the REINFORCE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yi-Lun Wu , Bo-Kai Ruan , Chiang Tseng , Hong-Han Shuai

Social recommendation has emerged to leverage social connections among users for predicting users' unknown preferences, which could alleviate the data sparsity issue in collaborative filtering based recommendation. Early approaches relied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Le Wu , Junwei Li , Peijie Sun , Richang Hong , Yong Ge , Meng Wang

Diffusion planning has been recognized as an effective decision-making paradigm in various domains. The capability of generating high-quality long-horizon trajectories makes it a promising research direction. However, existing diffusion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zibin Dong , Jianye Hao , Yifu Yuan , Fei Ni , Yitian Wang , Pengyi Li , Yan Zheng

Sequential recommendation aims to infer user preferences from historical interaction sequences and predict the next item that users may be interested in the future. The current mainstream design approach is to represent items as fixed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yong Niu , Xing Xing , Zhichun Jia , Ruidi Liu , Mindong Xin

While recommender systems have become an integral component of the Web experience, their heavy reliance on user data raises privacy and security concerns. Substituting user data with synthetic data can address these concerns, but accurately…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Derek Lilienthal , Paul Mello , Magdalini Eirinaki , Stas Tiomkin

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into recommender systems has led to substantial performance improvements. However, this often comes at the cost of diminished recommendation diversity, which can negatively impact user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jiaju Chen , Chongming Gao , Shuai Yuan , Shuchang Liu , Qingpeng Cai , Peng Jiang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in conditional image generation, yet their outputs often remain misaligned with human preferences. To address this, recent work has applied Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Shaomeng Wang , He Wang , Xiaolu Wei , Longquan Dai , Jinhui Tang

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved great success in the recommender systems (RS) domain. However, to achieve remarkable performance, DNN-based recommender models often require numerous parameters, which inevitably bring redundant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yang Sun , Fajie Yuan , Min Yang , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Shen Li , Xiaoyan Zhao

While the classic Prospect Theory has highlighted the reference-dependent and comparative nature of consumers' product evaluation processes, few models have successfully integrated this theoretical hypothesis into data-driven preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Liang Zhang , Guannan Liu , Junjie Wu , Yong Tan

Existing sequential recommendation methods rely on large amounts of training data and usually suffer from the data sparsity problem. To tackle this, the pre-training mechanism has been widely adopted, which attempts to leverage large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Chaojun Xiao , Ruobing Xie , Yuan Yao , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin