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Different from the traditional recommender system, the session-based recommender system introduces the concept of the session, i.e., a sequence of interactions between a user and multiple items within a period, to preserve the user's recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang , Jingjing Li , Hongzhi Yin

The increasing availability of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has created a necessity for personalized course recommendation systems. These systems often combine neural networks with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) to achieve richer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jibril Frej , Neel Shah , Marta Knežević , Tanya Nazaretsky , Tanja Käser

Reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective method of finding reasoning pathways in incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs). To overcome the challenges of a large action space, a self-supervised pre-training method is proposed to warm up the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ying Ma , Owen Burns , Mingqiu Wang , Gang Li , Nan Du , Laurent El Shafey , Liqiang Wang , Izhak Shafran , Hagen Soltau

Session-based recommendation which has been witnessed a booming interest recently, focuses on predicting a user's next interested item(s) based on an anonymous session. Most existing studies adopt complex deep learning techniques (e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Huizi Wu , Cong Geng , Hui Fang

Proactive Recommender Systems (PRSs) aim to guide user preference shift toward target items by generating paths of intermediate recommendations. Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a principled framework for optimizing such sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hongru Hou , Tiehua Mei , Denghui Geng , Jinhui Huang , Ao Xu , Hengrui Chen , Jiaqing Liang , Deqing Yang

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

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

Traditional recommender systems estimate user preference on items purely based on historical interaction records, thus failing to capture fine-grained yet dynamic user interests and letting users receive recommendation only passively.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Xuhui Ren , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Lizhen Cui , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Recent research explores incorporating knowledge graphs (KG) into e-commerce recommender systems, not only to achieve better recommendation performance, but more importantly to generate explanations of why particular decisions are made.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Yikun Xian , Zuohui Fu , Handong Zhao , Yingqiang Ge , Xu Chen , Qiaoying Huang , Shijie Geng , Zhou Qin , Gerard de Melo , S. Muthukrishnan , Yongfeng Zhang

Session-based recommendations are highly relevant in many modern on-line services (e.g. e-commerce, video streaming) and recommendation settings. Recently, Recurrent Neural Networks have been shown to perform very well in session-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Massimo Quadrana , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Balázs Hidasi , Paolo Cremonesi

The emerging meta- and multi-verse landscape is yet another step towards the more prevalent use of already ubiquitous online markets. In such markets, recommender systems play critical roles by offering items of interest to the users,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ehsan Gholami , Mohammad Motamedi , Ashwin Aravindakshan

In session-based or sequential recommendation, it is important to consider a number of factors like long-term user engagement, multiple types of user-item interactions such as clicks, purchases etc. The current state-of-the-art supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xin Xin , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M. Jose

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

Capturing complex user preferences from sparse behavioral sequences remains a fundamental challenge in sequential recommendation. Recent latent reasoning methods have shown promise by extending test-time computation through multi-step…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jiakai Tang , Xu Chen , Wen Chen , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang , Bo Zheng

Recommender systems are pivotal in enhancing user experiences across various web applications by analyzing the complicated relationships between users and items. Knowledge graphs(KGs) have been widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Guangsi Shi , Xiaofeng Deng , Linhao Luo , Lijuan Xia , Lei Bao , Bei Ye , Fei Du , Shirui Pan , Yuxiao Li

Explainable recommendation attempts to develop models that generate not only high-quality recommendations but also intuitive explanations. The explanations may either be post-hoc or directly come from an explainable model (also called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yongfeng Zhang , Xu Chen

Compared with only pursuing recommendation accuracy, the explainability of a recommendation model has drawn more attention in recent years. Many graph-based recommendations resort to informative paths with the attention mechanism for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yicong Li , Xiangguo Sun , Hongxu Chen , Sixiao Zhang , Yu Yang , Guandong Xu

Path-based relational reasoning over knowledge graphs has become increasingly popular due to a variety of downstream applications such as question answering in dialogue systems, fact prediction, and recommender systems. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Mandana Saebi , Steven Krieg , Chuxu Zhang , Meng Jiang , Nitesh Chawla

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

The sequential recommendation system has been widely studied for its promising effectiveness in capturing dynamic preferences buried in users' sequential behaviors. Despite the considerable achievements, existing methods usually focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Xiang Xu , Likang Wu , Sirui Zhao , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Ruiming Tang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen