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Real-world recommendation systems commonly offer diverse content scenarios for users to interact with. Considering the enormous number of users in industrial platforms, it is infeasible to utilize a single unified recommendation model to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chonggang Song , Chunxu Shen , Hao Gu , Yaoming Wu , Lingling Yi , Jie Wen , Chuan Chen

In the context of recommendation systems, addressing multi-behavioral user interactions has become vital for understanding the evolving user behavior. Recent models utilize techniques like graph neural networks and attention mechanisms for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Shereen Elsayed , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Personalized news recommendation systems often struggle to effectively capture the complexity of user preferences, as they rely heavily on shallow representations, such as article titles and abstracts. To address this problem, we introduce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hai-Dang Kieu , Delvin Ce Zhang , Minh Duc Nguyen , Min Xu , Qiang Wu , Dung D. Le

Session-based Recommendation (SBR) aims to predict the next item a user will likely engage with, using their interaction sequence within an anonymous session. Existing SBR models often focus only on single-session information, ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jinpeng Chen , Jianxiang He , Huan Li , Senzhang Wang , Yuan Cao , Kaimin Wei , Zhenye Yang , Ye Ji

Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art results in a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks including document summarization. Typically these systems are trained by fine-tuning a large pre-trained model to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Potsawee Manakul , Mark J. F. Gales

Sequential recommender systems have achieved significant success in modeling temporal user behavior but remain limited in capturing rich user semantics beyond interaction patterns. Large Language Models (LLMs) present opportunities to…

The training paradigm integrating large language models (LLM) is gradually reshaping sequential recommender systems (SRS) and has shown promising results. However, most existing LLM-enhanced methods rely on rich textual information on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Dugang Liu , Shenxian Xian , Xiaolin Lin , Xiaolian Zhang , Hong Zhu , Yuan Fang , Zhen Chen , Zhong Ming

Narrative-driven recommendation (NDR) presents an information access problem where users solicit recommendations with verbose descriptions of their preferences and context, for example, travelers soliciting recommendations for points of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Sheshera Mysore , Andrew McCallum , Hamed Zamani

Modeling the sequential correlation of users' historical interactions is essential in sequential recommendation. However, the majority of the approaches mainly focus on modeling the \emph{intra-sequence} item correlation within each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feng Liu , Weiwen Liu , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye

Sequential recommender systems predict items that may interest users by modeling their preferences based on historical interactions. Traditional sequential recommendation methods rely on capturing implicit collaborative filtering signals…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shenghao Yang , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Mingchen Cai , Min Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are extensively used in collaborative filtering due to their impressive effectiveness. These systems depend on interaction data to learn user and item embeddings that are crucial for recommendations. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yuying Zhao , Xiaodong Yang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiran Fan , Yu Wang , Yiwei Cai , Tyler Derr

The goal of a recommendation system is to model the relevance between each user and each item through the user-item interaction history, so that maximize the positive samples score and minimize negative samples. Currently, two popular loss…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Chun Yang , Shicai Fan

Session-based recommendation (SR) aims to dynamically recommend items to a user based on a sequence of the most recent user-item interactions. Most existing studies on SR adopt advanced deep learning methods. However, the majority only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Huizi Wu , Cong Geng , Hui Fang

Since individuals may struggle to recall all life details and often confuse events, establishing a system to assist users in recalling forgotten experiences is essential. While numerous studies have proposed memory recall systems, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chia Cheng Chang , An-Zi Yen , Hen-Hsen Huang , Hsin-Hsi Chen

Large language models are increasingly used as personal assistants, yet most lack a persistent user model, forcing users to repeatedly restate preferences across sessions. We propose Vector-Adapted Retrieval Scoring (VARS), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuren Hao , Shuhaib Mehri , ChengXiang Zhai , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS) have become essential in many real-world applications. However, existing SRS methods often rely on collaborative filtering signals and fail to capture real-time user preferences, while Conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifan Wang , Shen Gao , Jiabao Fang , Rui Yan , Billy Chiu , Shuo Shang

A common approach to personalization in large language models (LLMs) is to incorporate a subset of the user memory into the prompt at inference time to guide the model's generation. Existing methods select these subsets primarily using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jillian Fisher , Jennifer Neville , Chan Young Park

The increasing demand for personalized interactions with large language models (LLMs) calls for methodologies capable of accurately and efficiently identifying user opinions and preferences. Retrieval augmentation emerges as an effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chenkai Sun , Ke Yang , Revanth Gangi Reddy , Yi R. Fung , Hou Pong Chan , Kevin Small , ChengXiang Zhai , Heng Ji

Search engine plays a crucial role in satisfying users' diverse information needs. Recently, Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) based text ranking models have achieved huge success in web search. However, many state-of-the-art text ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Canjia Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Dongdong Li , Yiding Liu , Yu Lu , Shuaiqiang Wang , Zhicong Cheng , Simiu Gu , Dawei Yin

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