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Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) alleviates interaction sparsity by jointly modeling user behaviors across multiple domains. While current studies have made some progresses, they still neglect two issues that severely impact…

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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…

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Recommender systems are indispensable in the realm of online applications, and sequential recommendation has enjoyed considerable prevalence due to its capacity to encapsulate the dynamic shifts in user interests. However, previous…

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Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

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

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict items that users may be interested in based on their historical behavior sequences. We revisit SR from a novel information-theoretic perspective and find that conventional sequential modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Wenjia Xie , Hao Wang , Luankang Zhang , Rui Zhou , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend suitable items to users through natural language conversations. For developing effective CRSs, a major technical issue is how to accurately infer user preference from very limited…

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Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) could acquire dynamic user preferences towards desired items through multi-round interactive dialogue. Previous CRS mainly focuses on the single conversation (subsession) that user quits after a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yu Ji , Qi Shen , Shixuan Zhu , Hang Yu , Yiming Zhang , Chuan Cui , Zhihua Wei

Recommender systems play an essential role in music streaming services, prominently in the form of personalized playlists. Exploring the user interactions within these listening sessions can be beneficial to understanding the user…

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Recommender systems (RSs) have been playing an increasingly important role for informed consumption, services, and decision-making in the overloaded information era and digitized economy. In recent years, session-based recommender systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Shoujin Wang , Longbing Cao , Yan Wang , Quan Z. Sheng , Mehmet Orgun , Defu Lian

Sequential recommendation (SR) is to accurately recommend a list of items for a user based on her current accessed ones. While new-coming users continuously arrive in the real world, one crucial task is to have inductive SR that can produce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Cheng Hsu , Cheng-Te Li

In sequential recommendation, multi-modal information (e.g., text or image) can provide a more comprehensive view of an item's profile. The optimal stage (early or late) to fuse modality features into item representations is still debated.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hengchang Hu , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Min-Yen Kan

Sub-sequence splitting (SSS) has been demonstrated as an effective approach to mitigate data sparsity in sequential recommendation (SR) by splitting a raw user interaction sequence into multiple sub-sequences. Previous studies have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yizhou Dang , Yifan Wu , Minhan Huang , Chuang Zhao , Lianbo Ma , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Zhu Sun

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to proactively capture user preferences through natural language dialogue and recommend high-quality items. To achieve this, CRS gathers user preferences via a dialog module and builds user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhenye Yang , Jinpeng Chen , Huan Li , Xiongnan Jin , Xuanyang Li , Junwei Zhang , Hongbo Gao , Kaimin Wei , Senzhang Wang

Sequential recommendation methods are crucial in modern recommender systems for their remarkable capability to understand a user's changing interests based on past interactions. However, a significant challenge faced by current methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Haohao Qu , Yifeng Zhang , Liangbo Ning , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

While recommender systems (RSs) traditionally rely on extensive individual user data, regulatory and technological shifts necessitate reliance on aggregated user information. This shift significantly impacts the recommendation process,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gur Keinan , Omer Ben-Porat

Sequential recommendation aims at understanding user preference by capturing successive behavior correlations, which are usually represented as the item purchasing sequences based on their past interactions. Existing efforts generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yifang Qin , Wei Ju , Hongjun Wu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

Most sequential recommendation models capture the features of consecutive items in a user-item interaction history. Though effective, their representation expressiveness is still hindered by the sparse learning signals. As a result, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xu Yuan , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Bo Long

Sequential recommender systems have demonstrated a huge success for next-item recommendation by explicitly exploiting the temporal order of users' historical interactions. In practice, user interactions contain more useful temporal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Chen Rui , Liang Guotao , Ma Chenrui , Han Qilong , Li Li , Huang Xiao

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…

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