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In modern recommender systems, both users and items are associated with rich side information, which can help understand users and items. Such information is typically heterogeneous and can be roughly categorized into flat and hierarchical…

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Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction paradigm, where the users' preferences are estimated based…

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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) models aim to recommend items to anonymous users based on their behavior during the current session. While various SR models in the literature utilize item sequences to predict the next item, they often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jyoti Narwariya , Priyanka Gupta , Muskan Gupta , Jyotsana Khatri , Lovekesh Vig

Most of the existing recommender systems assume that user's visiting history can be constantly recorded. However, in recent online services, the user identification may be usually unknown and only limited online user behaviors can be used.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

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

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

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is proposed to recommend items within short sessions given that user profiles are invisible in various scenarios nowadays, such as e-commerce and short video recommendation. There is a common scenario that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Chuan Cui , Qi Shen , Shixuan Zhu , Yitong Pang , Yiming Zhang , Hanning Gao , Zhihua Wei

Session-based recommendation targets next-item prediction by exploiting user behaviors within a short time period. Compared with other recommendation paradigms, session-based recommendation suffers more from the problem of data sparsity due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xin Xia , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Yingxia Shao , Lizhen Cui

The Session-Based Recommendation System aims to predict the user's next click based on their previous session sequence. The current studies generally learn user preferences according to the transitions of items in the user's session…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jinpeng Chen , Haiyang Li , Xudong Zhang , Fan Zhang , Senzhang Wang , Kaimin Wei , Jiaqi Ji

In recent years, research has been done on applying Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) as recommender systems. Results have been promising, especially in the session-based setting where RNNs have been shown to outperform state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Massimiliano Ruocco , Ole Steinar Lillestøl Skrede , Helge Langseth

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

Session-based recommendation focuses on the prediction of user actions based on anonymous sessions and is a necessary method in the lack of user historical data. However, none of the existing session-based recommendation methods explicitly…

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Recommender systems help users find relevant items of interest, for example on e-commerce or media streaming sites. Most academic research is concerned with approaches that personalize the recommendations according to long-term user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Malte Ludewig , Dietmar Jannach

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

Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) predict users' next interacted items based on their historical activities. While most SBRSs capture purchasing intentions locally within each session, capturing items' global information across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yu Wang , Amin Javari , Janani Balaji , Walid Shalaby , Tyler Derr , Xiquan Cui

Predicting user actions based on anonymous sessions is a challenge to general recommendation systems because the lack of user profiles heavily limits data-driven models. Recently, session-based recommendation methods have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zailei Zhou

Session-based recommendation is a problem setting where the task of a recommender system is to make suitable item suggestions based only on a few observed user interactions in an ongoing session. The lack of long-term preference information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Andres Ferraro , Dietmar Jannach , Xavier Serra

Most session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) focus on extracting information from the observed items in the current session of a user to predict a next item, ignoring the causes outside the session (called outer-session causes, OSCs) that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wenzhuo Song , Shoujin Wang , Yan Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Xueyan Liu , Minghao Yin

Limited intra-session information is the performance bottleneck of the early GNN based SBR models. Therefore, some GNN based SBR models have evolved to introduce additional inter-session information to facilitate the next-item prediction.…

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